Scott Dunbier calls my attention to what may be the last chapter in the saga of Gary Coleman's pants.
On January 17, the auction ended with a winning bid of $400,000 placed by an eBay member named dfwgixxer. There were actually two bids for that price but dfwgixxer got his or her in first. Several other bidders went well into the six figure amounts.
So now, what did we think the odds were that anyone would actually pay $400, let alone a thousand times that amount for a pair of Mr. Coleman's old sweatpants? I'd say about the same as the chances of a grassroots "Mike Gravel for President" movement cinching the nomination for him.
It doesn't come as a huge surprise but on January 24, the pants seller posted the following negative feedback for dfwgixxer…
Scammer!!! NEVER RESPONDED!!! RISKY EBAYER!!! NON-BUYER!!!
What's funny, of course, is that the seller expected a response. Also, that despite this, dfwgixxer still has a 99.2% positive feedback score…and especially that eBay, which previously declared all six and seven figure bids "bogus bids" and cancelled them allowed this one to get to 400 grand. Like maybe that might be a real offer.