Someone on eBay is selling a pair of Gary Coleman's pants, autographed by the former star of Diff'rent Strokes and gubernatorial candidate. The other night on his show, Jimmy Kimmel put in a bid and warned viewers, "Don't try to outbid me on this." Well, of course, people are trying. The other day when I checked, the top bid was up to something like a million and a half dollars with many folks bidding six and seven figure amounts. I immediately thought, "Hmm…I may be wrong but I have a hunch some of these aren't legitimate bids."
eBay has since cancelled out all the six and seven figure bids, labelling them as "bogus bids." But the auction is still on and as I write this, the top bid is $33,433.33 with about four and a half days to go. What I find amusing is that someone bid more than $30,000 for a pair of Gary Coleman's old pants and eBay apparently doesn't consider that a "bogus bid." What do we think the cut-off point is where a bid for Gary Coleman's pants is considered bogus? $50,000? $75,000? I was thinking more like ten bucks.
If you want to track this auction, here's a link. See if you can figure out which bid is Kimmel.