ebay category
‘Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ — Tolstoy
Las Vegas Life - House, Benz, and priceless extras
Perfect way to move to Las Vegas and get a head start in your new home. You are bidding on a complete package that includes:
My 2750 sq ft luxury home on the 15th fairway of the prestigious Las Vegas Country Club, right in the middle of everything that is Las Vegas. Granite and Travertine flooring, Granite Kitchen, Euro Cabinets, Stainless appliances, His and her shower and fireplace in Master Suite. House has been completely custom remodeled and has a new automated lap pool and spa, new A/C, Heat, Water softener, too much too mention.
If you like, you also have the opportunity to continue having ( as long as you are cool enough to keep her around) my very cool and gorgeous 22 year old aspiring model, rent paying, best I ever lived with, rock and roll connoisseur roommate(pictured)-This alone is worth the purchase price.
1996 Triple Black Mercedes Benz 500sl Sport Edition (117,000 miles),
2004 Toyota Tundra pickup (20,000 miles, loaded) (Appeared in 2006 Gumball Rally and the movie 3000 miles)
My cell phone number (702) SEL-SEXY, including many stored numbers (and some introductions), highlights include 3 porn stars, one a 2007 AVN award winner, numerous strippers, “VIP girls”, bartenders, club hosts, DJ’s, and an original member of Guns n Roses, who will even come over and have a drink or two to welcome you.
Sale will be treated as 700,000 for the real estate(less than the most recent appraisal) and the rest as a personal property and goodwill sale. Good luck and happy bidding
$25,000 deposit upon completion of auction. Buyer to enter into Definitive Purchase Agreement after successfully bidding. Deposit non refundable AFTER 15 days past end of auction except in cases where an executed DPA would allow for full refund under specific conditions. Closing to be ASAP and not more than 90 days.
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★★★★★ Awesome
The fun started over a year ago, when Amazon.com began selling gallon jugs of milk. An anonymous consumer submitted a review, dubbing it “The Best Milk Ever!” and the tongue-in-cheek comment struck a chord. Since then nearly 900 consumers have written reviews of the $3.99 jug. Comments range from “Worth its weight in gold times infinity” to “My cat is awesome now.” One person recalled sending the milk to business contacts over the holidays: “Our clients were super-impressed, and I may be on my way to VP,” she raved.
Amazon’s now infamous milk-review page parodies a familiar phenomenon: the overwhelming positivity of customer reviews. If a Martian had access to the Internet, he’d conclude that Earth is a consumer paradise where every gadget merits five out of five stars and everyone on eBay is a “superfast A+++ highly recommended seller.” In fact, a recent study analyzing more than 585,000 customer-written reviews on Amazon found that the average book title gets 4.2 out of five stars. The same goes for customer write-ups on web sites of companies like Sears, Home Depot and Macy’s. Whether they’re reviewing cameras or cashmere, more than 80% of consumers award at least four stars. No wonder online retailers are rushing to add customer-comment sections to their sites. For years they spent billions persuading us that all their merchandise was above average; now they can relax and let us convince each other.
You’ve got to wonder why the ratings skew so high. One possible explanation is that they reflect the truth: Most products on the market today are flat-out wonderful. Ha-ha! The real answer lies in Amazon.com’s stapler section, where, believe it or not, a total of 42 customers have commented on stapler purchases. Not surprisingly, 27 granted five stars. A typical write-up: “It works very well and staples many papers together.” Five customers really hated their stapler and gave it just one star. But here’s the interesting part: Only one reviewer awarded three stars. Does that mean there’s no such thing as an average stapler? Hardly. It means that consumers review only products they love or loathe. As Paul A. Pavlou, professor of information systems with the Anderson Graduate School of Management, notes, consumer-generated ratings generally follow a particular distribution: lots of high ratings, some low ratings and few in between.
+ previously { You Are Fantastic. Thank You I know. }
Hypergraphia [compulsive writing]
1931-59 FBI Agent Narcotics Diary Collection
Meet Max H. Roder (1892-1988). Special Agent who covered narcotics his entire 34 year career.
Collection of 28 diaries (1931 to 1959) kept on a day to day basis so he could recall things if he had to go to court. Two addition diary type books of how to mix fingerprint power, names and address of other fellow agents, wire taps made in 1935 (many pages torn out) etc. Counting the diaries and these two books makes a total of 30 books in all.
The diaries from 1931 to 1937 are his narcotics work in Philadelphia Pa. Diaries from 1938 to 1959 are New York City work except for a brief period Sept 46 to Sept 47 when he went back to Philadelphia Pa. It appears the New York City cases were mainly targeted again Italian Americans in Little Italy. You’ll be amazed how many people smoked opium in NYC. A lost practice in today’s world. Agent worked out of Room 615 at 90 Church St and later 633 Broadway NYC.
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A deeper mystery at play
You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.
Here is the arrangement:
I will be spending the Christmas holiday in Poland in a tiny village that has one church with no bell because angry Germans stole it. Aside from vodka, there is not a lot for me to do.
During the course of my holiday I will send three postcards to one person of your choosing.
These postcards will be rant-ravingly insane, yet they will be peppered with unmistakable personal details about the addressee. Details you will provide me.
The postcards will not be coherently signed, leaving your mark confused, guessing wildly, crying out in anguish.
“How do I know this person? And how does he know I had a ferret named Goliath?”
Your beloved friend or relative will try in vain to figure out who it is. Best of all, it can’t possibly be you because you’ll have the perfect alibi: you’re not in Poland. You’re home, wherever that is, doing whatever it is you do when not driving your friends loopy with international prankery.
Your target will rack their brains in the shower. At dinner. During long drives. At work. On the golf course.
“Who did I tell about the time I got fired by a note on my chair?” they’ll ponder, “And where the hell is Szczeczinek?”
But wait, there’s more.
To add to the sheer confusion and genuine discomfort, one missive will be on an original promotional postcard announcing the 1995 television premiere of Central Park West on CBS.
Another will be a postcard celebrating Atlanta’s disastrous hosting of the 1996 summer Olympic games.
Your mark will be at a complete loss, desperate for answers, debating contacting people he or she hasn’t talked to in years.
“I know this will sound weird, but by any chance were you in Eastern Europe ranting about cantaloupe… twelve years ago… right before some show with Mariel Hemingway debuted?”
When you decide to end the torment is completely up to you. If you can, I recommend owning up on 1 April 2008 - giving you nearly half a year of joy and a George Clooney-esque level of prankage. If you can’t hold it in that long, I totally understand.
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A huge store with three levels — Stuff 1 only, Stuff 2 only, and Stuff 1 and 2 together
For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay’s market value was three or four times that of Amazon. And there was good reason for that: EBay’s margins have been far higher because it simply moves bits around, while Amazon has to move boxes (and take the risk of owning inventory it can’t sell).
Now the tables are turning. Amazon is in favor on Wall Street. Its shares are up 150 percent over the last year, giving it a market value of $38 billion. EBay’s stock has been flat for a year, and it is now worth only a little more than Amazon at $45 billion.
Amazon has been improving its margins, in part because it is increasingly acting as a broker for goods sold by other merchants (and doing a better job for new merchandise than eBay stores or eBay’s Shopping.com). Amazon’s margins, to be fair, have been hurt because it is paying for a lot of two-day shipping under its Amazon Prime program. Amazon also has a wild card in its growing sideline business of selling storage and processing services to other Web businesses.
EBay is more of a puzzle. It still has great margins, but its growth is slowing. Moreover, its recent acquisitions — Skype, Shopping.com and StumbleUpon — don’t seem to be adding much. EBay’s core auction business is also challenged. Fraud is a drag. And many sellers are turning to Amazon or selling directly on their own sites, using Google to attract customers.
The key for me is that Amazon is a very well-run company that has been a leader in technology and disciplined in its management, and most importantly has a knack for satisfying customers — both buyers and other online merchants.
EBay’s management wins credit for not messing up one of the best business models ever invented. But it scores far lower on innovation. To my eye, the site’s design and technology have never been in the same league as Amazon’s.
related { Dad sells his disobedient son’s Christmas present on EBay }
If You’re Looking for Trouble, Just Look Right in My Face
A collection of photographs, books and FBI files from The Elvis Is Alive Museum sold for $8,300 on eBay, and the 81-year-old proprietor of the roadside attraction hopes the bidder will carry on his theory that the King never died.
A man from Laurel, Miss., must make a $500 deposit by the end of the weekend or lose his right to claim the stuff, the museum owner’s son said Friday.
The collection includes a tape recording of what is said to be Elvis Presley’s voice made long after the date of his death and piles of documents that are said to be FBI files proving Presley’s involvement with federal authorities.
Other items in the collection include replicas of the Cadillac Elvis drove and the casket and gravestone from his 1977 funeral. A poster of the famous photo of President Nixon and Presley from 1970 is also included.
photo { Kate Moss by Terry Richardson | Harper’s Bazaar, Sept 1997 }
I’ve Got What I Paid for Now
Original 1966 Hilltop High School yearbook. This school is located in Chula Vista, what is a suburb of San Diego, California. This yearbook features singer/songwritter Tom Waits as a sophmore. That means he is about 15 in this picture.
It has 225 pages of great text and photos. It is signed through out and several as “Tom”, but not sure if its Tom Waits signature. Great photos and text about sports, dances, band, cheerleaders, classmates, clubs, school activities on and off campus, early campus photos and so much more. It also has 26 pages of great local advertisements.
The yearbook is in excellent shape. It has no water damage, no cut-out pictures, no torn pages, no seperated pages, very nice side binding and cover and great color. This was found at a recent 80 year estate and was safely stored away for years. It has a protective plastic cover on the binding what I removed to photograph.
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unrelated { Tom Wait }
We Will Conduct Our Business According to the Highest Ethical Standards
That pocketknife you surrendered to airport security screeners might now be tucked away in someone else’s pocket — someone who bought it on EBay.
Under the handle CaliforniaGold2000, the state is using the Internet auction house to convert scores of confiscated items to cash.
So far, $16,281 has been made selling objects taken from passengers at Oakland and Sacramento airports — the only ones in Northern California to participate in the state program.
Among the oddest items confiscated and sold were at least three circular saws, hatchets, curtain rods and a little girl’s baton, said Robb Deignan, spokesman for the surplus property disposal program, a division of the California Department of General Services.
Also sold: 5,364 pocketknives, 350 pounds of scissors, 594 corkscrews and 309 leatherman tools.
The Transportation Security Administration, which employs most airport screeners, allows airports to decide how to get rid of the mountains of items collected, said spokesman Nico Melendez. They are too numerous to return to their owners, Deignan said.
In cash-strapped, tech-savvy California, someone in the state’s surplus property program thought up the idea of selling the things on EBay, Deignan said. California may be the only state in the country that has employed EBay for the purpose.
