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Now, my entry isn't a great one, but while perusing for a cheap large MTB for a mate, I found a table football setup, which, while free, and really nifty, wasn't quite what I was after, but got me thinking: what's the strangest thing you've seen, either as an item or as an advert (eg "would swap for a years supply of custard" etc)
Personally I'm hoping someone will flog me a sodding great laser*, but I'm still waiting.
*Years supply of custard may well be the highest I'm prepared to pay, unless it's a really good one capable of vaporising annoying neighbours, or at least writing/burning rude things on the wall of the building opposite.
Am I imagining it, or was someone selling a cage fighting cage on the classifieds here quite recently?
Back in the days of the old fashioned classified papers me and my brother used to have a competion to find the least-worth-selling item being offered. For months and months on end someone in Glasgow was repeatedly advertising "Small pot, would suit dumpling. 50p" twice a week. It cost more than 50p to place an ad.
Through the same paper I offered a pub fruit machine where I'd replaced all the symbols on the wheels with with words, the machine paid out if the words aligned to create a criticism Brian Sewell had made of a Turner Prize nominee. Swapped it for a Sega Saturn.
For months and months on end someone in Glasgow was repeatedly advertising "Small pot, would suit dumpling. 50p" twice a week. It cost more than 50p to place an ad.
You really think they were selling an actual pot?
Small pot, would suit dumpling. 50p
Well done, you just caused me to have a coughing fit!
Actually, they were, though the postage made them quite expensiveYou really think they were selling an actual pot?
Every bloody one came full to the brim with something - I complained once but they didn't respond. To be fair, the pots do come in handy even though I don't make dumplings
Disappointed with this thread.....
There was a good one on the Hamsterley buy and sell pages last week for some pads. It was the grot on the telly in the background that made it special.
Or the silent clutch LX hub.
That's more like it!
Anyone wanna buy my chicken?