Check Out This eBay Seller Part Deux: The Crayons Strike Back!
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Next logical (?) step.....
The original owner of the box of crayons is thought to be a young Michael Jackson(!) when a return address label is discovered inside the box behind the highest row of crayons. The value of the crayons jumps 3000%! 80 separate e-Bay auctions are posted – one for each crayon. Of course the pointy ones will fetch the higher dollars along with those bearing MJ’s fingernail indentations!
As a bonus, anyone winning all 80 auctions will receive the box with the attached address label!
As a bonus, anyone winning all 80 auctions will receive the box with the attached address label!
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From: Warnsveld. GLD, The Netherlands
Originally posted by RandyC
There is a famous picture on the internet that shows it's not easy to go that way.
There is a famous picture on the internet that shows it's not easy to go that way.
(just kidding, can live pretty good without that mental-image
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#203
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Originally posted by ProjectMayhem
You realize that poor guy probably committed suicide?
Or was that the objective?
You realize that poor guy probably committed suicide?
Or was that the objective?
Got his email kicked back to me:
The original message was received at Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:36:47 -0700
from mxpool08.ebay.com [66.135.197.14]
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(reason: 554-(RLY:B1) The information presently available to AOL indicates this)
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#205
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Okay, here goes with the crayons. What do you guys want done with them? There is already a plan underway for something else that should be going up in the next day. But these crayons here ...
You guys have 24 hours to come up with something to do with them. Or I will. Heh heh. There will be pictures no matter what.
TheHistorian :there are 2 whites.
You guys have 24 hours to come up with something to do with them. Or I will. Heh heh. There will be pictures no matter what.
TheHistorian :there are 2 whites.
#207
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But how do we stop the people from outside the forum from bidding?
#208
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Originally posted by Preacher
TheHistorian :there are 2 whites.
TheHistorian :there are 2 whites.

I like RandyC's idea of putting them up again but giving them no bids.
If you want to be sure you could always start them at that price or .01 WITH high shipping (say $35). Make up something about they will only be sent FEDEx next day in a small handmade crate to protect their pointy integrity. Put it in big letters to scare off the bidders.
#209
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Originally posted by RandyC
I think Strife should now offer the same crayons for auction with a 99 cent starting bid.
But nobody bid on them. Nobody.
I think Strife should now offer the same crayons for auction with a 99 cent starting bid.
But nobody bid on them. Nobody.

Classic. But with a counter so lots of people are looking at it.
#210
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but that'd only be funny if someone outside the forum was watching the crayons. doesn't seem like the original guy is.
i thought the original plan was to send the crayons, straws, etc to whoever bought the typewriter (einteir i think) and he'd send it all back to the anal boy
i thought the original plan was to send the crayons, straws, etc to whoever bought the typewriter (einteir i think) and he'd send it all back to the anal boy
#211
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i thought we decided anal boy was dead?
you know.. you guys do have his home address.. you can go over and make sure he isnt trapped under a bookcase or something
you know.. you guys do have his home address.. you can go over and make sure he isnt trapped under a bookcase or something
#212
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A local man apparently spent several days trapped under a pile of books and unusual anal devices in his home before being discovered by a neighbour who smelled a strange odor, a local daily reported.
The man, identified only by his eBay user name, spent the weekend lying on the floor, trapped between his computer and bookcase under a pile of books and anal probes that fell on him, the paper reported.
The neighbour who called the police and paramedics told the daily that the man's apartment was very untidy, "filled up with books, crayons, moldy office equipment and what appeared to be a fairly extensive clown straw collection".
"It looked like a real rubbish dump," he said, adding it was hard to imagine how the man could freely move around in it.
Found near the body scrawled in what appeared to be brown crayon was a note that read:
"$266.00 for crayons and the shipping wasn't even included!"
Neighbors said he was a very quiet man who only ever seemed to leave his home to make occasional trips to the local Post Office.
The man, identified only by his eBay user name, spent the weekend lying on the floor, trapped between his computer and bookcase under a pile of books and anal probes that fell on him, the paper reported.
The neighbour who called the police and paramedics told the daily that the man's apartment was very untidy, "filled up with books, crayons, moldy office equipment and what appeared to be a fairly extensive clown straw collection".
"It looked like a real rubbish dump," he said, adding it was hard to imagine how the man could freely move around in it.
Found near the body scrawled in what appeared to be brown crayon was a note that read:
"$266.00 for crayons and the shipping wasn't even included!"
Neighbors said he was a very quiet man who only ever seemed to leave his home to make occasional trips to the local Post Office.
#213
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Originally posted by Venusian
but that'd only be funny if someone outside the forum was watching the crayons. doesn't seem like the original guy is.
i thought the original plan was to send the crayons, straws, etc to whoever bought the typewriter (einteir i think) and he'd send it all back to the anal boy
but that'd only be funny if someone outside the forum was watching the crayons. doesn't seem like the original guy is.
i thought the original plan was to send the crayons, straws, etc to whoever bought the typewriter (einteir i think) and he'd send it all back to the anal boy
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From: OFF-WORLD
Originally posted by nazz
A local man apparently spent several days trapped under a pile of books and unusual anal devices in his home before being discovered by a neighbour who smelled a strange odor, a local daily reported.
The man, identified only by his eBay user name, spent the weekend lying on the floor, trapped between his computer and bookcase under a pile of books and anal probes that fell on him, the paper reported.
The neighbour who called the police and paramedics told the daily that the man's apartment was very untidy, "filled up with books, crayons, moldy office equipment and what appeared to be a fairly extensive clown straw collection".
"It looked like a real rubbish dump," he said, adding it was hard to imagine how the man could freely move around in it.
Found near the body scrawled in what appeared to be brown crayon was a note that read:
"$266.00 for crayons and the shipping wasn't even included!"
Neighbors said he was a very quiet man who only ever seemed to leave his home to make occasional trips to the local Post Office.
A local man apparently spent several days trapped under a pile of books and unusual anal devices in his home before being discovered by a neighbour who smelled a strange odor, a local daily reported.
The man, identified only by his eBay user name, spent the weekend lying on the floor, trapped between his computer and bookcase under a pile of books and anal probes that fell on him, the paper reported.
The neighbour who called the police and paramedics told the daily that the man's apartment was very untidy, "filled up with books, crayons, moldy office equipment and what appeared to be a fairly extensive clown straw collection".
"It looked like a real rubbish dump," he said, adding it was hard to imagine how the man could freely move around in it.
Found near the body scrawled in what appeared to be brown crayon was a note that read:
"$266.00 for crayons and the shipping wasn't even included!"
Neighbors said he was a very quiet man who only ever seemed to leave his home to make occasional trips to the local Post Office.

funniest. threads. ever.
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From: Cedar Lake, IN
Originally posted by RandyC
I think Strife should now offer the same crayons for auction with a 99 cent starting bid.
But nobody bid on them. Nobody.
I think Strife should now offer the same crayons for auction with a 99 cent starting bid.
But nobody bid on them. Nobody.

Good stuff! That would definitely scare the poor, dead, anal man.
You know dam well someone would bid on them, though. Not anyone from here, but someone on eBay who saw the last auction and thinks they could turn an easy profit. Hell, we should do this all the time to make a lot of money...
I was thinking of someone winning them for $18 with free shipping?
I don't know. I just want to know what happened to the guy! The possibilities are endless...
Last edited by ProjectMayhem; 07-27-03 at 10:13 AM.
#217
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Originally posted by Venusian
why let that idea go? i thought it was hilarious. the guy will go crazy trying to figure out why his auctions are being returned to him
why let that idea go? i thought it was hilarious. the guy will go crazy trying to figure out why his auctions are being returned to him
Y'all got 6 hours to figure out what ya wanna do with 'em.
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From: Cedar Lake, IN
Originally posted by Preacher
I was willing to send it to einTier because it would be payment for the shipping of the typewriter. Otherwise I'm not sending it back. Fine line between confusing and funny and wrong.
Y'all got 6 hours to figure out what ya wanna do with 'em.
I was willing to send it to einTier because it would be payment for the shipping of the typewriter. Otherwise I'm not sending it back. Fine line between confusing and funny and wrong.
Y'all got 6 hours to figure out what ya wanna do with 'em.
I like the original plan. einTier sending all that stuff back to him...
But I really have no say in this...
#219
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I say put them up for bid again (this time by the winner of the last auction) starting at .01 with a high shipping (with an explanation of how they will be sealed and padded with extra insurance). After no one bids have Preacher continually update his auction, practically begging for bids. Each update/edit should get crazier and crazier, each more desperate than the last. Until one of us snipes it at the last minute for 1 cent.
#221
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Originally posted by DeputyDave
I say put them up for bid again (this time by the winner of the last auction) starting at .01 with a high shipping (with an explanation of how they will be sealed and padded with extra insurance). After no one bids have Preacher continually update his auction, practically begging for bids. Each update/edit should get crazier and crazier, each more desperate than the last. Until one of us snipes it at the last minute for 1 cent.
I say put them up for bid again (this time by the winner of the last auction) starting at .01 with a high shipping (with an explanation of how they will be sealed and padded with extra insurance). After no one bids have Preacher continually update his auction, practically begging for bids. Each update/edit should get crazier and crazier, each more desperate than the last. Until one of us snipes it at the last minute for 1 cent.
since he is the one that is suppose to own them now?
#222
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Crayons 3. Revenge of the Dialator.
Crayons 3. An Anal Resurrection.
Crayons 3. Bidders of the Last Box.
Crayons 3. Pointy for your Pleasure.
Crayons 3. The Fellowship of the Rim
Crayons: The Criterion Good Burger Special Edition.
Crayons and Top Bunk. Return of the Bling.
Crayons 3, Crossing the Streams
A saucy tale where Crazy Deaf Girl wins the crayon auction is a strange twist.
Crayons 3. An Anal Resurrection.
Crayons 3. Bidders of the Last Box.
Crayons 3. Pointy for your Pleasure.
Crayons 3. The Fellowship of the Rim
Crayons: The Criterion Good Burger Special Edition.
Crayons and Top Bunk. Return of the Bling.
Crayons 3, Crossing the Streams
A saucy tale where Crazy Deaf Girl wins the crayon auction is a strange twist.
#223
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How about if somebody buys a box of cheap crayola crayons (ones that sell for $0.50), and lists them as Das Boot, ultra rare, has a letter stating that they are rare, and we drive up the price?
Or list something that is a little ludicrous, maybe a baseball signed by the Beatles, a fork once used by John F. Kennedy when he was in a diner in some small town (but it's been washed since), etc.
Or is the idea to just mess with the original seller's head?
Or list something that is a little ludicrous, maybe a baseball signed by the Beatles, a fork once used by John F. Kennedy when he was in a diner in some small town (but it's been washed since), etc.
Or is the idea to just mess with the original seller's head?
#224
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Originally posted by Heat
How about if somebody buys a box of cheap crayola crayons (ones that sell for $0.50), and lists them as Das Boot, ultra rare, has a letter stating that they are rare, and we drive up the price?
Or list something that is a little ludicrous, maybe a baseball signed by the Beatles, a fork once used by John F. Kennedy when he was in a diner in some small town (but it's been washed since), etc.
Or is the idea to just mess with the original seller's head?
How about if somebody buys a box of cheap crayola crayons (ones that sell for $0.50), and lists them as Das Boot, ultra rare, has a letter stating that they are rare, and we drive up the price?
Or list something that is a little ludicrous, maybe a baseball signed by the Beatles, a fork once used by John F. Kennedy when he was in a diner in some small town (but it's been washed since), etc.
Or is the idea to just mess with the original seller's head?
Without sending the crayons to him, what's the point?
#225
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Originally posted by Brain Stew
Good point.
Without sending the crayons to him, what's the point?
Good point.
Without sending the crayons to him, what's the point?



