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Bids for gramp's ghost skyrocket
ABC News Online ^ | 12/07/04 | AFP

Posted on 12/07/2004 1:48:31 PM PST by LarkNeelie

Ms Anderson, who hails from Hobart, Indiana, said the unexpected attention generated by her whimsical eBay sale had "left her a nervous wreck" and that she had cancelled some of the more "outrageous bids".

She reiterated that the purpose of the exercise was simply to reassure her five year-old-son who was uneasy about living in a house that he felt was haunted by his "mean" grandfather.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: auction; bid; bids; cane; ebay; frenzy; ghost; grandfather; grandpa; indiana; sell

1 posted on 12/07/2004 1:48:32 PM PST by LarkNeelie
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2 posted on 12/07/2004 1:51:53 PM PST by Ohiomedina (Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.)
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Now, this looks like a "ghost skyrocket" to me:


3 posted on 12/07/2004 1:52:16 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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Already sold for $68K to the same online casino that paid $28K for the sandwich with the image of the Virgin.


4 posted on 12/07/2004 1:58:32 PM PST by tx_eggman ("All I need to know about Islam I learned on 09/11/01" - Crawdad)
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Wow! Anyone want to sell an imaginary friend next? Maybe you can make a few thousand from this casino on that.


5 posted on 12/07/2004 1:59:53 PM PST by HungarianGypsy (We are the pirates who don't do anything....)
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Wow! Anyone want to sell an imaginary friend next? Maybe you can make a few thousand from this casino on that.

GoldenPalace.com. Think about it, for $68K they get 2 or 3 days worth of worldwide news cycles .. very inexpensive, very effective advertising when you consider that all they want is for people to know their web address and that they're an online casino

6 posted on 12/07/2004 2:02:24 PM PST by tx_eggman ("All I need to know about Islam I learned on 09/11/01" - Crawdad)
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There's a host across the sun - and I'll sell it for $50,000!


7 posted on 12/07/2004 2:15:37 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob (Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?)
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