Anything suss about this?
The eBay auction of 4 Sydney guys selling a weekend’s friendship/company attracted a bit of attention this week. In the end, despite all the joke bids that got up to something like $45m, the winning bid ended up at $1,300. The winner, with eBay user name Newidsooz, gets to hang out with the “4 blokes” in their inner Sydney pad on February 18 and 19 for a weekend that will entail “some beers, some snags, some good conversation and a hell of a lot of laughs”.
I’m curious to know who would part with $1,300 for this …some desperado without any friends, so they have to buy them, or someone with more money than sense? I suspect its someone looking for a bit of publicity, and no doubt they will drum up a bit of press attention by reporting on their weekend with the “4 blokes”. Call me cynical, but given 3 of them are in marketing, I wouldn’t be surprised if the winner was one of their mates anyway and its all a bit of a publicity stunt.
Tell the truth now - who, upon reading the post heading, and seeing the picture, or reading about this story during the week, had thoughts that 4 young guys auctioning their company had some sort of gay sex connotations?
February 4th, 2006 at 5:29 am
hehe. i cant say i didnt think exactly the same thing ! and the whole references to bbq + sausages..
February 5th, 2006 at 6:50 am
Four sets of plucked eyebrows……maybe.
February 5th, 2006 at 8:25 am
No way! He’s holding a VB, he’s clearly a man’s man…. after all nothing says “i’m not a poof” like VB, right?
July 1st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Talking of ebay, I am not sure if anyone has checked out this site that a friend told me about – called My Hire Site. If not, definitely check it out – http://www.myhiresite.com.au. Its like ebay – except that people actually hire things on the site, rather than having to buy things. Its got so much stuff and really a money saver!