The fight for Jimbo's "dignity", Ebay bidding war over soiled garb Options

What dumbass can possibly be willing to shell out 12,000 bux for Jimbo's "dignity"?

That had better be Jimbo himself.

Depends - could he charge it to his expense account?

Depends - could he charge it to his expense account?

Lol!

Ebay

Shirt's now going for more than $2000! Unfortunately eBay decided to start obscuring bidders' names today so no idea who this person is except that with a track record of 0 (and it being wikipedia related) this could be a fake account. Either that or some Blofeldian figure actually wants to get the shirt and try to clone Jimbo. Hope he doesn't end up cloning Rachel instead.

I'm confused- if people make a bid on ebay they have to buy the item usually if they win, and go through with it, don't they? So you can't really have a fake bid? Or does that all depend on the feedback system, so there's no other sanction if you do something like that?


My credit rating is so poor I can't buy stuff online myself, so don't know much about it

As to the cloning- are you sure you'd prefer there was a jimbo to a rachel clone? She's better looking, IMHO. And I don't think she would say she 'makes the internet not suck'- she has a face like she might have a webcam and no how to use it

Hey....what if there's a tape? lol

This post has been edited by wikiwhistle: Tue 4th March 2008, 12:20pm

I'm confused- if people make a bid on ebay they have to buy the item usually if they win, and go through with it, don't they? So you can't really have a fake bid? Or does that all depend on the feedback system, so there's no other sanction if you do something like that?

I sell a fair bit of LEGO on eBay. My experience with deadbeat buyers has been that the recourse is to file a Final Value Fee claim, which means that after a while, you get your final value fee refunded by eBay and the item can be relisted. The buyer, if they can't explain why they didn't complete the transaction, gets a "strike" against them. 3 strikes and you're out. Theoretically. The other recourse is to leave the buyer negative feedback.

That's how the system is supposed to work. In reality, there are lots of ways for the buyer to avoid the strike, lots of reasons to give. I've never had a deadbeat buyer get one. (although I always get my fee back... usually it is because I let them off the hook). I avoid leaving negative feedback, because it's too easy to be retaliated against. One problem with having a perfect feedback record (as I do, and although I won't pimp my store here, my ID is pretty darn obvious, you can go see for yourself what my feedback looks like) is that you really want to keep it that way. So I bend over backwards to avoid negative feedback.

In this case... these deadbeat/joke/throwaway accounts will have absolutely nothing happen to them for making these joke bids. IMHO anyway. Throwaway accounts are terrifically easy to create. The seller has little or no legal recourse and eBay typically is no help at all, it's slanted toward buyers. Again, my view only. (but yes, you found a hot button of mine. eBay is the biggest game in town so if you want to sell, you sell there, like how they do things or not, and I want to sell, so I go along, like it or not)

That was probably more info than you wanted.

Damn. The price has leveled off at 12,000. I figured it would keep climbing... I predicted as uch as 30,000.

--Brief intermission--

Probably fake auctions: 1 & 2

Even if it's a fake auction, the shipping fees on #1 are a tad exaggerated.

For when this auction expires:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Wikipedia-Jimmy-Wales-...1QQcmdZViewItem

Jimbo Wales.co.uk domain for sale

Forget stained old clothing put online by vengeful and psychotic one night stands! What were you thinking Jimbo???

Invest in a digital property medium that Bill Gates recently said was currently appreciating faster than any other commodity known to man. A premium domain name.

And .co.uk domains are now appreciating faster than any other tld, including .com! Forget the bogus $7m sale of business.com from one shell company to another. .co.uk is where all the action is at!

The market demand, and prices, for prime .co.uk domains is currently going through the roof. The .co.uk record that stood for a couple of years at £120,000 for taste.co.uk purchased by our client Sainsbury’s has now been smashed three times in the past three months, firstly by recycle.co.uk at £160,000 and also by cruises.co.uk last month at $1.1 million dollars!

This auction is brought to you by UK3.com Limited. UK3.com own and operate the DropCatcher service at www.detagged.co.uk that is the World’s largest .co.uk dropcatching service and also own one of the largest portfolios of prime generic .co.uk domain names in the World including groceries.co.uk, printers.co.uk, trainers.co.uk, biochemicals.co.uk, half.co.uk, bandwidth.co.uk and thousands more.

Own a piece of internet history, Jimbo is sure to achieve his ambition of floating wikioogle so that he can kit out his new private jet as his own personal flying f***chamber. Maybe Jimbo and Rachel might even kiss and make up.

Whatever happens, this valuable domain can only appreciate in value! Bid now!

BOOOOOOOOOO

It got dropped down to a little over 2000.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=290211080341

BOOOOOOOOOO

Technically, co.uk is a second level domain, not a top level domain. It's a sibling of others such as org.uk and gov.uk, with .uk as its parent.

--Brief intermission--

Probably fake auctions: 1 & 2

Even if it's a fake auction, the shipping fees on #1 are a tad exaggerated.

These sales are in Canada.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Isn't Canada where Slimvirgin lives?



(just trying to mix it up a bit)

Apparently she's not a virgin anymore then.

BOOOOOOOOOO

It got dropped down to a little over 2000.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=290211080341

BOOOOOOOOOO

I hope it sells for 20 bucks. He doesn't deserve it to sell for tens of thousands.

And that the low price is duly recorded in history.

Like any w----, Jimbo should be sold at his correct value.

This post has been edited by Disillusioned Lackey: Wed 5th March 2008, 4:20pm

The second link is dead. The first os from Alberta, where SV is alleged to be.

The second link is dead. The first os from Alberta, where SV is alleged to be.

I thought SV was based in Saskwatch or some such named place. I don't know, my Canadian geography isn't the best. Nathan?

What does SV have to do with this?

*sigh*

What does SV have to do with this?

*sigh*

That would be Mack's Rule: "As a Wikipedia discussion grows longer, the probability of mentioning SlimVirgin approaches 1."

The second link is dead. The first os from Alberta, where SV is alleged to be.

I thought SV was based in Saskwatch or some such named place. I don't know, my Canadian geography isn't the best. Nathan?

Leave those Sasquatches out of this! What did they ever do to you?

You must mean Swalwell, Alberta.

Ebay has disqualified the auctions probably because the clothes weren't Marsden's to sell.

So did Jimbo complain to eBay and get them to ax the sales?


BTW, check out the comments made by readers of her hometown newspaper, the Vancouver Province

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sto...f2-de23b9f02804

COMMENTS ON THIS STORY
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Misty
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 06:33 PM
Shame on you The Province for giving this chick so much Publicity. She is not in her right mind and should be banned from any media coverage. Thank you for wasting time on this issue instead of covering things that may be considered important in the world.
Dave
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 06:46 PM
Is this what passes for news these days? Come on....please
islander
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 07:19 PM
Forget the shirt, is this the best Rachel can do to get her name in the news. Finally she has run her course and we will soon never have to hear her name again. Unless she dates OJ that is.
Craig
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 07:30 PM
She's a mental case and a pathological liar. Why do you print this drivel. No one really ares.
Annoyed
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 08:11 PM
How pathetic. Both of them.
eric cruz
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 08:35 PM
Rachel Marsden is hilarious! I think she's great! This women has some serious abandonment issues. I wish I could feel sorry for her but she is so damn entertaining! I sincerely hope that she gets a reality show where she can spew her right wing hate speech while being in a love triangle with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. They say sex sells. I say CRAZY makes you watch it over and over again.
Bored
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 11:14 PM
Rachel Marsden is the biggest has been that has ever graced the pages of anything. And I find it sad that the media seem to feel the public is the least bit interested in any part of her pathetic little life.
Henry
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 11:23 PM
Ms. Marsden is a SICK women. She needs help mentaly, just look at her past.
danny
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 11:49 PM
she is just plain nuts.....
Bill in NZ
Thu, Mar 6, 08 at 11:57 PM
Is this really news????? The best part of this story is the fact that this 'whack job' is living in New York. Now she's their problem. If I never hear her name again it will be to soon. Please report on 'real news'.
Kevin
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 01:29 AM
Obviously, the story is doing it's job, look at the comments floating in, look at how many have saved this to bookmarks just so they can keep up on the story. Good thinking Province. The story must have some decent ratings, judging by the amount of comments being generated, heee.
Linda
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 08:25 AM
Yes, she is getting her much needed publicity but hopefully she will eventually seek help with her underlying problems. Query a history of childhood abuse in her past ?
Bored as well
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 08:49 AM
Yaaaawwwwwwwwwn..
Harry
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 08:51 AM
"Unless she dates OJ that is". LOL, Islander, I love that one and it is perfect for this girl. I'll bet she has already thought of that one though. It would be perfect for OJ, fatal attraction. She comes by this naturally I think as others in her immediate family were weird as well.
Lori
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 10:27 AM
She is living in the US and we still have to hear about her.... This girl need's to get a head doctor.. I am so sick of hearing of her....
Anthony
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 11:50 AM
This is news? The province is nothing more than a tabloid paper.
DeeJay
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 12:14 PM
KOO-KOO,KOO-KOO...Earth to Rachel...come in,Rachel your 15 minutes is UP...
chip
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 12:48 PM
I felt abandon that today 07 Mar 2008 that this was my first knowledge of who ever this is selling whe ever that is clothes on ebay. Is there a new blackout in the midwest that prevented me from knowing the juicy details as if I really needed to know this. I hope that news blackout filter continues to work the way it has.
Frederika Bimmel
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 01:04 PM
While I agree that giving this nutcase any attention is wrong I am also sick of her getting a free pass from the local media regarding her lunacy since she left town. Her resume is filled with lies and in recent years she's done more harrassment and has been dragged out of the Fox studios kicking and screaming once they caught on to how crazy she is.
1/2 man george
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 01:35 PM
Hey babe if you re still lonely .......
Cathy
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 03:04 PM
Marsden's massive ego, will never allow to seek the professional mental help that she so badly requires. Her only redeeming quality is her good looks, Ms. Marsden has a 2 cent head. If she was a plain jane, it's, very likely that they would lock her up in the nuthouse and throw away the key.
Nicole
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 03:17 PM
it's good to know that the news is covering important issues out there, NOT!! What a load of crap! How many others out there have had crappy breakups? With all this publicity why don't we raise money for good causes or savings lives in 3rd workd countries, who give a hoot about this girl getting dumped and trying to get even with selling the clothes of her ex?.. Give the publicity to something that is actually important and quit wasting time on petty stuff!
OkanaganGuy
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 03:38 PM
Cookoo Catchoo Miss' Marsden.
Jason Feng
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 04:28 PM
Thank you for wasting valuable newspaper space writing about this. If I read any more about Rachel Marsden this year, consider my Province subscription ended.
I have shirts
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 05:28 PM
psssyyyycchhooooooo!! coo cooo....coo cooo....hey crazy rach, i have some shirts and i can start up a website too if thats all it takes! bet you her next move is to buddy up with britney spears, they could be bff's! LOLOLOL
Charles Atlast
Fri, Mar 7, 08 at 05:39 PM
Frankly I don't even find this woman attractive. She is without doubt in need of some serious mental health consideration. She will be boiling someones' rabbit or emerging out of a bathtub with a knife if not!!! This is sad....and it does solidify the general feeling that if you want reasonable news, read the Sun, if you want a sort of British tabloid feel, read the Province....all the same company though so they have the whole market covered. And let's face it, there are those of us who do not find the escapades of a proven wacko to be "news", we take the time to sound off on it.

I think maybe she just moved the items to the United States' Ebay, and now the auction title says "Jimmy W***s", so there's no legal claim that the shirt belongs to one Mr. W-a-l-e-s. Could be Jimmy Wqzys, for all we know.

Another nine days on the clock, and she's started the bidding about where it had left off in Canada. $2400 for the T-shirt, and $1200 for the sweater.

Greg

What does SV have to do with this?

*sigh*

That would be Mack's Rule: "As a Wikipedia discussion grows longer, the probability of mentioning SlimVirgin approaches 1."

See, it's the cult-of-virginity thing, like Elizabeth I and The Holy Mother of God.

I dunno why it fascinates anymore than malnutrition, but it seems to. At least Jimbo seems to be getting some nookie. From the way they behave, I can't see any evidence that the rest of the people who run WP are. If they were, they'd be nicer.

Certainly that 24-yo little punk who called himself Essjay and pretended to be a professor of canon law, can't have been getting any. And probably wasn't too sure of what kind he wanted.

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