Tag: eBay

Engadget notes a very funny Ebay auction for a Kryptonite bike lock with a twist on the keys (why go metal when you can go ballpoint?)

In New Zealand, a painting by a class of Kindergartners sold for $75,000 at auction after two wealthy parents got in a bidding war over it.

And my wife laughed when I suggested putting my 7 year-old’s artwork on EBay.

Source:

Kinder painting sold for $75,000. Jeremy Calvert, News.Com.Au, June 6, 2004.

Over the past couple months I’ve become addicted to one of the many Internet obsessions that I had until this year managed to avoid — EBay. Anyway, on the off chance that there is anybody reading this site who is as big of a gadget bag freak as I am, I just wanted to mention an excellent deal I ran across on EBay the other day.

For about six months now I’ve been lusting after this RoadWired bag. This is the best laptop bag I’ve ever seen. But its $179.95, and frankly even with my penchant for collecting laptop bags (I’ve got about 12 bags from different manufacturers), that is a lot of money to pay for a ballistic nylon laptop bag.

But Len’s Discount Photo is selling several of these bags for $99.99 + $15/shipping on EBay. Mine arrived on my doorstep less than 48 hours after I paid for it, and everything was exactly as advertised.

And yes, the bag is a gadget geek’s dream. Now I’ve got room for my laptop, digital camera, PDA, cell phone, external HD, batteries, power cables, USB/Firewire cables, security cable, battery chargers, track ball, several PMCIA cards, and important paper files all in one bag. Very cool.

The Cato Institute’s Lucas Mast makes an interesting point about EBay’s recently announced policy that it will no longer list items that promote hatred, intolerance, and/or violence. Which, of course, means that you can’t buy a Nazi flag or Charles Manson recording, but you will still be able to buy flags and other collectibles related to the two most murderous states in human history, the Soviet Union and The People’s Republic of China.

I think Mast is probably correct that by caving in on some items, EBay will find itself under constant attack by one special interest group or another to ban yet another offesnive set of items.

The Cato Institute’s Lucas Mast makes an interesting point about EBay’s recently announced policy that it will no longer list items that promote hatred, intolerance, and/or violence. Which, of course, means that you can’t buy a Nazi flag or Charles Manson recording, but you will still be able to buy flags and other collectibles related to the two most murderous states in human history, the Soviet Union and The People’s Republic of China.

I think Mast is probably correct that by caving in on some items, EBay will find itself under constant attack by one special interest group or another to ban yet another offesnive set of items.