eBay Idiots -- Part I

While up late at night, nightly, I tend to browse eBay to kill some time. It's technically my work break. Daily searches include 'Kings Williams', 'Reebok Blast', 'Rodman shirt', etc....

But while on the hunt for hours on end -- there's a point where you have to wonder what in the HELL a seller was thinking when they submitted their listing. Surely, you can set whatever price you want. But isn't the intent to sell the product afterall?

Here's some of my latest favorites. And to break all forum rules -- all links are LIVE! (Make sure to thank me later!)

First up:
$1200 -- DS Shaqnosis
Now the Shaqnosis is no slouch in my book; I own two pairs myself. I even grossly overpaid to the tune of $250 for a DS sz. 13 pair. But the seller here is looking for nearly FIVE times that price? It's no surprise the seller is from Orlando. Can you imagine the asking price for DS Penny II's?


$5000 -- XX3 Prototype
There's three awesome things about these:

* This seller must be hip to the Portland game. He obviously lucked into these through our favorite *untitled* thrift store, known to be a Campus dumping ground, where we've also found Clear Sole III's, black seamless X's, black/cement III's, Gloria Lebron III's, and most recently, '04 Talaria Samples . All priced under $40 each. Good find indeed on his part.

* If they weren't acquired through said thrift store, the WearTest number is in PLAIN site -- and the Nike hawks are grilling said tester right now in a cold barren conference room until he confesses his life away.

* He first listed these at $4200. They weren't remotely close to selling. So to go along with all logic in this dreadful economy, he relisted them at a substantially higher price. Good luck.


$500 -- Worst Jordan Ever Made
It's one thing to be a reseller. It's another to have to go through the effort of taking 16 different pics of these monstrosities and writing a positive item description in hopes of someone blowing holy grail type money with a single mouse click.


$1100 -- Countdown 4/19 Pack
Your eyes are not deceiving you. The exact Countdown Pack that released 3 days ago. The same pack that Niketown New York had 52 sets of as of this morning. From a seller who fancies shitty rugs and leather flip flops. In Kentucky. With 0 feedback.


$2195 -- Signed Countdown XIV
No. You don't even get the IX's included. What occurred here is a seller bought the IX/XIV Pack for $310, sent in the XIV to Upper Deck's Autograph program, paid $750 to have Michael take 4 seconds to write his name, and turned around to mark up the effort a whopping $1300. For arguably the worst executed Retro model of any of the Countdown Packs. (That says A LOT.) Out of all the shoes one could throw away their money on, I have to know the person who buys this pair. I'm vowing to interview the unbelievably lazy purchasee, because it's really not that hard to get a pair of the REAL black/red 'Last Shot' XIV's, send them to UDA for a MJ auto, and save yourself over $1000.


-Nick