Ebay - Strange findings - Post em' here:

I clicked on the original hyperlink, and I don't get it. What's bizarre about that? Auctions get canceled all the time.

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The original link was from 18 months ago. The auction wasn't cancelled, you can no longer view it.

Chris

By the way, the guy who listed it has a very funny blog at Banterist: http://www.banterist.com/

I am able to view the completed auction, even now. The meat slicer's description is what was so funny. I'm not sure why you can't view it. Here's the description:

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My Electric Food Slicer Will Change Your Life

Sliced Meats = Empowerment

It used to be that if you wanted perfectly sliced meats and cheeses you had to go to a restaurant and pay some "professional" to expertly slice them and assemble them in a nice pattern on a plate for you.

Not any more.

Allow me to be your personal Tony Robbins, albeit with duller teeth.

I'm not just selling a used Chef's Choice gourmet electric food slicer. I'm selling empowerment. I'm selling you the chance to change your life for the better. Assuming you don't cut your fingertips off.

The fact is, when you slice your own meats and cheeses the world is your oyster.

This magical, wonderful, used electric food slicer takes the power from the cold-cut elite and gives it to you. What you do with that new power is your call. I suggest you slice meats and cheeses with it.

You'll be a force to be reckoned with. Your dinner parties will have more panache. Your family gatherings more joie de vivre. Your plates will become assiettes.

If you've always wanted to serve Harrison Ford mathematically precise provolone, this is perhaps the greatest opportunity you will ever have to do so.

Whether you want to bring your fundraisers to a new level, or satisfy a grueling obsessive compulsive disorder, this used Chef's Choice gourmet electric food slicer is quite probably what you've been looking for.

I hope you will seize this opportunity to empower your life with precision sliced foods and get this thing out of my cabinet.
I live across from a billboard and upstairs from a UPS Store. Once payment is received, I will look out the window at the billboard then run downstairs and ship the thing faster than Eliot Spitzer issues subpoenas.



The Q&A section from the listing:

Q: You mention Harrison Ford. Is he included in this auction? Because he won't answer any of my letters.

A: Don't take it personally. He's busy frowning.


Q: Do you think your fine Food Slicer could finely slice my hubby's book collection so I too could free up some shelve space around here? Also, there an excessive tool collection collecting dust in the garage? Oh my I'm just giddy thinking of all the extra space I could make with this item!

A: If you're the high bidder I'll need you to sign some liability release forms before you try remodeling with a ham blade.


Q: I'm a vegetarian but like the look of this item. Does it slice tofu and would my dinner parties look better with a professionally sliced tofu platter, lightly garnished with a chick pea or two? I've never had a dinner party because of the tofu slicing issue, but with this professional slicer, things could certainly change for me.

A: If the tofu is firm enough it can certainly be sliced into perfectly flavorless rectangles.


Q: Disappointed you will only ship within the United States. Are you deliberately withholding empowerment from those in lesser nations (antipodeans in my instance). Lucky I'm handy with a knife.

A: I just don't want to export anything that could be used in a coup.


Q: If this is such a fantastic item that brings joie de vivre even to family gatherings (where it it needed most in my family). What has possessed you to put it on the market? Have you gone Vegan?

A: We'd spend most of the gathering trying to pronounce joie de vivre - which made everyone miserable.


This message was edited Aug 5, 2006 11:37 AM

ROFL!

I edited my above post and added the Q&A section and a link to the seller's website.

I clicked and could read it...laughed by butt off...I have one and didn't know it could change my life...mine must be a dud! *G*

that is so funny GW. you always find suh interesing things to share with us.....