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Item from the future on sale at ebay
Posted By:
Myst
Mar 03, 2005
 The weird ebay sales have gotten pretty ridiculous lately, but I thought this one deserved a spot here in the Museum of Hoaxes forum.

Current bid: US $340.00
Time left: 9 days
10-day listing, Ends Mar-12-05 22:02:10 PST

I am from the future. Item number: 5562742387

You are bidding on a chance to add one line of dialog to any character in my screenplay. Since I am trying to sell the screenplay, I must approve the dialog. You obviously get to read the screenplay.

It has nothing to do with the future list. Since I am from the future, I already know who will win this auction. Your ingenious line brought my script to the next level and made you 1 Million dollars in royalties alone. A Plush doll with your likeness turns into the national icon for Brazil.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5562742387&isPrinterFriendly=1

I have a screen shot I will post later, I need to stitch it together. It was too funny to not capture the whole page including the questions from other buyers.

Update:
Screenshot of auction, click on thumbnail to view. This is a rather large file, sorry, any smaller and no one would be able to read it!

http://www.Imagevenue.com">
Category: eBay; Replies: 7

Comments
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Alex
in San Diego
 Member
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 | 09:35 PM
If he already knows who will win the auction and what line of dialogue will be submitted, why does he need to approve it first?

I also want to see if this direct link to the auction works. The software that runs the forum automatically turns urls into active links, but for some reason it gets confused by urls with question marks in them.
Myst
Member
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 | 10:10 PM
Thanks, Alex. I wasn't sure how to do a direct link when I posted this.

I will get the screen shot put together this weekend. I have to head off to dreamland pretty soon and tomorrow I need to go out of town.

I think future visitors might get a kick out of it, and of course by then the auction will be gone.
Myst
Member
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 | 10:15 PM
The current bid on this has got to be a hoax!

Current bid: US $25,100.00
Sharruma
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 | 12:29 AM
There are three kinds of people in the world

Clever people
Stupid people
People who bid on ebay
X
Member
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 | 06:28 AM
They removed it, I was really wanting to see that!!
Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
 Member
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 | 09:10 AM
no, there are five types of people

Clever people
Stupid people
People who bid on ebay
People who can't count
Myst
Member
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 | 04:14 PM
There you go, Stephen, now you can read it! cheese
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