Ghosts haunting Ebay

[AngelFeather]

Grandpa's 'ghost' for sale on EBay

HOBART, Ind. (AP) -- A woman's effort to assuage her six-year-old son's fears of his grandfather's ghost by selling it on EBay has drawn more than 34 bids with a top offer of $78 US.

Mary Anderson said she placed her father's "ghost" on the online auction site after her son, Collin, said he was afraid the ghost would return someday. Anderson said Collin has avoided going anywhere in the house alone since his grandfather died last year.

In a description titled "This isn't a joke," Anderson told Collin's story on EBay:

"I always thought it was just normal kid fears until a few months ago he told me why he was so scared. He told me 'Grandpa died here, and he was mean. His ghost is still around here!' "

Lest the boy's fears scare off potential bidders, Anderson added, "My dad was the sweetest most caring man you'd ever meet."

Some of the prospective buyers have posted their own messages.

"Your story brought tears to my eyes," one bidder said. "I just wonder how this will turn out for your son. I'm sure his grandfather loved him very much."

Anderson also put her father's metal walking cane up for auction so she would have something to actually send the winning bidder. The proceeds from the auction will go to buy Collin a special present, she said.

Anderson makes one special request of the winning bidder: "I would like to ask you to write a letter after you've received the cane (and the ghost) to my son letting him know that he's there with you and you're getting along great."

The bidding is due to close Monday afternoon.

[CISCO GEEK]

OMG, is all I have to say.... :?????:

[middle of the sky]

i was going to charge folks 100 dollars a night to stay in this haunted room ... do you think thats unethical?

[AngelFeather]

i was going to charge folks 100 dollars a night to stay in this haunted room ... do you think thats unethical?

LOL well depends do they know and want a thrill?
If so i say charge $200.. rofl.

[middle of the sky]

thats extra.... and so ate the baloney samwiches and tea

[nt_inuk]

omg is right

i seen this on the news tonite ... crazee

[badmaninc]

LOL well depends do they know and want a thrill?
If so i say charge $200.. rofl.

All this sounds like it should be in the 49. LOL...Then again, MOTS does live in the East End. J/k.

[orangepridendns1]

more than 5,000 for grandpa's ghost...

Well, this interesting story was on the Today show this am..Ann Curry interviewed the parents via satalite and the price is reportedly already up to over 5,000 dollars!!! So, has rapidly gone up over the weekend...they said they weren't sure what they were going to do with all the moolah yet....couldn't believe it was a "legit" thing...I guess people will buy just about anything...

[AngelFeather]

Well, this interesting story was on the Today show this am..Ann Curry interviewed the parents via satalite and the price is reportedly already up to over 5,000 dollars!!! So, has rapidly gone up over the weekend...they said they weren't sure what they were going to do with all the moolah yet....couldn't believe it was a "legit" thing...I guess people will buy just about anything...

Ok they say legit, ok, but my question is.... how do you send a ghost or exchange a ghost from one person to another... I mean is there a ritual one has to perform so the ghost knos that he has been bought and paid for? LOL..Or is the item merely exchanged ,and would if the ghost goes back to the original owner abandonning the item bought? LOL...
Its all soo corny..
hehe

[nt_inuk]

lmebo

corny is right
and
yup ... this shows, that just about anything can be found on ebay.
lmebo

[wyo_rose]

Omg!! 5000????

[Heinz57]

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Haunted Indian Artifact! & Scared wife who's had enough
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Haunted Indian Artifact! This is what my wife tells me because she has never seen any "freaky"(as she calls it) things like this happen until I brought this piece home. She says she has seen the ghost of an indian(that looks really mad she says) come running across the room after her 3 different times and it disappears before it reaches her.(Of course this has only happened when I am asleep and she is on the way to the bathroom or something, I get woke up by a frantic wife cussing and screaming). She is also always claiming to me of seeing floating balls of light that only she see's in the room the artifact is in. She will not dust the shelf that the artifact sits on or even go near it for that matter. She set up a fish tank next to the shelf the artifact sits on and the next day every fish in the tank was dead and of course it was my artifact that did it she says. She collects these dolphin figures and 5 different ones have broken that just happen to be on shelfs that are on the same wall my artifact is on. She adopted a dog for us from the humane society and when the dog got near the wall it would act like someone yelled at it and run out of living room, two days later the dog just ran away and never came back, again my artifact got the blame for this.
This is an extremely Rare Notched Cahokia Mounds Hoe. 6" x 5" It is a nice size piece for the type. This notched hoe was found many years ago during the construction of the old Post Office building in O'Fallon, Illinois. It was reported to have been found in a cache with at least one other notched hoe and other artifacts. This example is made of Mill Creek chert. I am not sure if this was some kind of gift for a passing of an important indian of that area but someone told me the mineral deposits on the piece shows its a good possibility.

My wife says she can deal with the floating lights and occasional unexplained breaking of a figurine but she will be damned if she is going to be chased by some psycho indian(as she puts it) across the room because I have something that is his. She says either the indian artifact goes or she does.

Well authentic rare artifacts like this are just to darn hard to find

So up for auction is

ONE CRABBY WIFE!
You pay for all shipping I will throw in the bubble wrap for free. NO RETURNS!!!! Ole Lady sold AS-IS!

I have included pictures of the artifact that scares her so bad.

I guess if she doesn't sell I may have to sell the artifact so please bid high!! I have to eat this winter. If you would prefer the artifact over my crabby wife like I said " Please bid high I have to eat this winter"

















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The artifact will be $10 Shipping to anywhere in the U.S. It will pass any authenticator. 14 day return privilege if you would like to have checked for authenticity. There is no dought the piece is authentic.
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[AngelFeather]

LMAO ... So he not willing to part with the artifact but his wife.. LOL thats too funny...

Ill have to spread sum green to ya fer that 1
gave me a good chuckle hehhe

[orangepridendns1]

That is too funny!! LOL!! I had to go to ebay and red it myself just to be honest!! Funnier part is...sounds alot like some things that happened to a charachter in a book by Mercedes Lackey called Sacred Ground.....? becomes is this the new way to make a few bucks? As for the other family with the grandpa Ghost...The mom said that they were actually sending the cane...I don't think they actually believe there is a ghost, it is their little boy thatis afraid of it..so they were just trying to appease him by saying that they were selling it then, it kinda took off or something like that..trying to find out how much it actually sold for..

[orangepridendns1]

Here is a new write up about the ebay ghost and all I have to say is 65,000!!!! Oh My Gosh!!! That would pay for college for my kids..!!!!!


Grandpa's ghost going, going, gone
Woman's attempt to ease son's fears scares up $65,000 in Internet auction


Mary Anderson and son, Collin, 6, sold his grandfather's cane with his ghost Monday. -- Photo provided by Mary Anderson

Wacky Web items
eBay officials say you can tell a lot about our culture by the items that are generating a buzz -- and big prices -- on their online auction site. Here is a sampling of some previous items that have taken on pop culture status:

The "Sacred Sandwich"
• The item: Grilled-cheese sandwich bearing the image of the Virgin Mary
• The top bid: $28,000
• The story: A Florida woman ate a bite of the sandwich and then noticed the image of the Blessed Mother. She stopped eating and preserved the sandwich as a keepsake, which she says brought her luck. Ten years later, she put the sandwich for sale on eBay. The curiosity of it generates 1.6 million hits on the eBay Web site. The sandwich is now on a tour sponsored by its new owner, GoldenPalace Online Casino.

The groom wore white
• The item: Ex-wife's wedding dress
• The top bid: $3,850
• The story: Larry Star, of Seattle, found his ex-wife's $1,200 wedding dress in his closet and decided to recoup some money from their broken relationship. The genius was his marketing: Star posed for pictures in the dress and added them to his eBay sales pitch.

A ghost story from Indiana
• The item: Walking cane and ghost
• The top bid: $65,100
• The story: After his grandfather died in his home after a long illness, 6-year-old Collin Anderson, of Hobart, feared his grandfather's ghost would haunt him. So his eBay-proficient mom decided to put the ghost up for sale and rid him of the worry. She packaged the ghost with grandpa's walking cane and hit it big. GoldenPalace Casino claims to be the buyer of the ghost.
Sources: Star reports, The Seattle Times, Associated Press



By Robert King
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December 7, 2004


What started out as a curious way to help a little boy cope with the fear of his grandfather's ghost blossomed Monday into a sure sign the apocalypse is upon us.

The ghost of an Indiana man -- and the more tangible walking cane he used in life -- sold Monday on eBay for $65,100.

EBay identified the winning bidder only as Brian Renovitch. But GoldenPalace, an Internet gambling firm, posted a news release on its Web site late Monday, saying it had prevailed with a bid of $65,000.

GoldenPalace spokesman Drew Black said the higher bid had not been accepted, allowing GoldenPalace to claim the cane. An eBay spokesman could not be reached late Monday.

GoldenPalace recently won an eBay auction where the prize was a grilled cheese sandwich emblazoned with an image said to resemble the Virgin Mary. The "Sacred Sandwich," as it was dubbed, went for $28,000. That sandwich now is on tour, and Black said GoldenPalace will take the cane on tour, too.

Mary Anderson, 33, of Hobart in northwest Indiana, put her father's ghost up for sale last week in an effort to help her 6-year-old son, Collin, cope with the fears troubling him ever since the old man died in the family's home last year.

Anderson said her son worried that his grandfather's ghost might come back to haunt him. In his final days, 72-year-old Collin Proctor had raised his voice to the boy and tapped him on the rear with his walking cane.

Anderson said her father never hurt the boy and was a decent man who happened to be very sick. But the memory stuck with his grandson. Adding fuel to the boy's fear of ghosts was the fact his uncle fancies himself an amateur investigator of the paranormal.

"He said, 'Grandpa died here, and he was mean to me,' " Anderson recalled. "He said he knows ghosts exists, and he basically thinks my dad was the biggest meanie."

As a means to move past those fears, Anderson packaged the ghost with the walking cane. And she set a condition on the purchase: The buyer of the ghost must agree to write little Collin a letter acknowledging the receipt of the cane -- and the ghost.

This curious transaction is one of a handful of eBay auctions that have captured the public's imagination in recent months.

Aside from the "Sacred Sandwich," eBay's Web site drew 17 million hits after a Seattle man decided to auction his ex-wife's wedding gown. It didn't hurt that his eBay sales pitch included photos of him posing in the wedding dress.

Hani Durzy, a spokesman for eBay, said the secret to turning an everyday item into a national sensation often goes back to the basics of free enterprise -- good marketing.

The ghost, the wedding dress and the Sacred Sandwich -- the items which have created the most buzz on eBay this year -- all were accompanied by creative sales pitches by their owners.

"Some are good storytellers," Durzy said. "If you think of eBay as a giant marketplace -- which is what it is -- you want to do what you can to get the most eyeballs to it."

Fueling the bidding war for the ghost was the appearance by Anderson and her husband Monday on NBC's "Today Show." After the Anderson's offering received national publicity, a number of copycat listings for ghost canes popped up on eBay.

There is a limit to what eBay will allow to be put up for auction. Previous attempts by people to sell their own souls on eBay were quashed because the buyer has to get something tangible.

"There's a rule: A seller must be able to deliver what they are selling," Durzy said. In this case, the cane is a real thing.

"If the buyer believes they are getting a ghost, it's up to the buyer," he said.

Durzy said eBay bidders are warned up front that if they offer the winning bids they have, in effect, accepted a binding contract. eBay doesn't enforce the deal -- that's the responsibility of buyers and sellers. But parties who don't make good on their deals can be banned from eBay and, theoretically, face litigation.

Anderson said last week that her son would get the cash proceeds from the auction. That was when the top bid was about $51.

When the bids were about $1,000, Anderson posted a message on the eBay message board indicating some of the proceeds would go to an account to help pay for the adult respite care of her mother, who has Alzheimer's.

Anderson, who repairs computers, couldn't be reached for comment Monday night, and it's not clear how she will spend $65,000.

When one visitor to eBay's Web site posted a message questioning whether the ghost might be angered by being put up for sale, Anderson said she was not worried.

"Actually," she wrote, "my dad would have loved this."

Call Star reporter Robert King at (317) 444-6089.