The eBay offers for sale are going up and being stripped off quicker than cheap wallpaper on a caravan wall .. best so far was one with two "bids" for $9,999,999.00 (perhaps the highest numbers eBay will accept?) .. against that you have to love the UK entry, with a starting bid of £200 .. if you're going to scam, be modest :)
Most are from sellers who only registered to put the "item" on, and the starting levels make them more hoaxes of the "send this to everyone you know and AOL will donate 33 cents towards the cost of this dying child's operation" cruel nonsense .. that internet graffiti that some seem to do just because they can ..
But as others have said .. anyone who bids is daft .. and it's the buyers and bidders for this kind of nonsense who create the market for it, whether it's ludicrous auctions or trashy magazines. If they didn't sell there'd be no point in wasting time and money putting them into the market.
Channel 4 here is putting on some "The truth behind ...." about MJ this week .. as if! I'd love to think that people would all vote with their feet as I shall do .. but no doubt loads will tune in and watch .. and Channel 4 will feel justified, as will their advertisers ...
It's how Big Brother keeps managing to clog up so many channels for so many interminable weeks every year ...
Caryl
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