posted on November 23, 2004 03:48:11 AM new
tom as you well know, you can sell just about ANYTHING on ebay-remember that empty beer can from 1941 that went for..what was it $18,000?
posted on November 23, 2004 06:04:35 AM new
Let's hope she does a better job delivering the sandwich than she did the Ali boxing gloves and the sweatshirt ( last two transactions are negatives!) Just shows to go that FB doesn't mean diddly!
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posted on November 23, 2004 06:39:16 AM new
Well My husband was leaving with his packed lunch and I told him, bring back that cheese sandwich.........lol
Well all it did for me was make me spill my coffee all over my key board.........just reading the listing,..........dam, I hope it don't jam up on me now.......
posted on November 23, 2004 10:34:44 AM new
Hi all,
Looks like it might be legit. Here's a copy/paste from AOL news.
Updated: 08:40 AM EST
$28,000 Bid for Unique Grilled Cheese Sandwich
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Nov. 22) - A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $28,000 on eBay.
Diane Duyser packed the sandwich in cotton balls ten years ago and kept it on her night stand. (AP/Miami Herald)
GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend "as much as it took" to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.
"It's a part of pop culture that's immediately and widely recognizable," spokesman Monty Kerr told The Miami Herald. "We knew right away we wanted to have it."
Photos posted on eBay show what can be viewed as a woman's face emblazoned on the sandwich, a bite taken out of one end. Bidding closed Monday.
In a statement, GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe said he planned to use the sandwich to raise money for charity. Kerr and Steve Baker, CEO of GoldenPalace's management company, Cyberworld Group, flew to south Florida on Monday to make arrangements for a sandwich handover from its owner, Diana Duyser.
"I would like all people to know that I do believe that this is the Virgin Mary Mother of God," Duyser, a work-from-home jewelry designer, said in the casino's statement.
The online auction site initially pulled the sale, saying it didn't post joke items. The page was restored after the company was convinced that Duyser would deliver on the bid, said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy.
Duyser said she took a bite after making the sandwich 10 years ago and saw a face staring back at her. She put the sandwich in a clear plastic box with cotton balls and kept it on her night stand. She said the sandwich has never sprouted a spore of mold.
11/22/04 23:07 EST
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posted on November 23, 2004 10:53:17 AM new
It is legit alright. She was featured on CNN News this morning talking about her big sale. Said she was going to give a big chunk of her earnings to charity.
posted on November 23, 2004 11:46:42 AM new
Yeah, right!! It seems the seller has a police record for fraud and drugs and her husband just got out of jail for drugs. Heard it this a.m. on the local radio station.
posted on November 23, 2004 12:27:09 PM new
I may be wrong on this, but doesn't that sandwich look a little too fresh to be 10 years old? Wouldn't there be some mold or decay? What about the yeast in the bread? Whouldn't it have done something by now?
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posted on November 23, 2004 01:28:26 PM new
...Wouldn't there be some mold or decay?..
Only proves the miraculous nature of this item.
Aside from that, 28K to get publicity for your on-line casino on every news station in the country doesn't seem that bad a deal. Granted, people will think it's wacko, but still, it's publicity.
stupid or not thats 28K I would have loved to have.