8 Hilarious Pieces of eBay Feedback
eBay is a delightful little corner of the interweb in which users can sell their new and used goods. From iPods to toast with a supposed burnt image of Jesus on it, users are able to sell anything they fancy at the starting bid of their choice. To help deduce the integrity of the seller, eBay enlists a feedback system that shows positive, negative, and neutral feedback from up to a year of the user's recent activity. Of course, with such a wide array of users and their wacky products, there are bound to be occasions where the feedback can be quite hilarious.
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Musicians or Bureaucrats
"I asked him. Are we musicians or bureaucrats? Became offended. Cancelled sale. Posh." This feedback is from the buyer, ProGuitarist2, for a jazz guitar. We love the understated, mildly philosophic nature of it. This seller refused to hand over his guitar after the buyer hurt his feelings. Some people are just too sensitive.
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Steve Irwin's Diving Suit
User "tryork5ifp" is notorious for outrageous, albeit humorous eBay feedback. While he is constantly leaving such remarks, eBay does their best to remove them from the site as quickly as possible, so you can check back regularly to see which comments are still accessible. A little down the page, you can find this gem: "HEY—the autograph Steve Irwin diving suit you sold me had BIG a hole in it!!!" Is it too soon?
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I'm Not Paying
You'd think sellers would use caution with a buyer with the username "iaintpayinyou," but his feedback shows otherwise. Even better? The two feedback comments were left by the same person. In other words, this guy completed two separate transactions with the "buyer" before realizing the joke was on him. We think he was pretty clear about his intentions from the start.
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Unwarrented Advances
User RandyKim22 leaves the negative feedback, "There was a condom in package sayin call me." Her purchase was the video game Golden Eye 007 for N64. We love to find a random, wildly inappropriate piece of negative feedback in a sea of positive comments. Was this too forward? Perhaps next time he should ask her out on a date first. With a little detective work, we were able to figure out the username of this seller and confirmed that it was, indeed, negative feedback they received.
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That's Pretty Awesome
"I opened the shipping bag & the cable's awesomeness destroyed a nearby village," eBay user mizzelphug writes. We're a fan of hyperbole, especially when they allow for positive feedback as it's usually the negative feedback that invites humor. This user's feedback page has some great one-liners, if you have time to look for them. He also hilariously details how he uses various products.
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None Were Injured
User mr_bo**ox writes, "seller confirmed no children or animals were maimed during transaction : A+++" and then follows up to add, "Seller later admitted 2 goats HAD been slightly injured, but had recovered OK." This Monty Python-esque feedback comment left us giggling. On further inspection, this user seems to buy anything and everything on eBay, much of it being absolute junk. His comments are wonderfully random.
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Ryobi Router Table, Worthless Junk, No Reserve
You can't find the actual page on eBay anymore, but it has been reproduced in several places and become somewhat of a legend. The story of this eBay listing was even retold on NPR's This American Life. In essence, a man was selling a router table on eBay and very honestly described it as a piece of trash. From there ensued an excess of terribly comedic comments from various eBay users about how they could best destroy the router table.
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True Blood on eBay
It's a fake, of course, but with a little bit of Photoshop-induced ingenuity, someone put together this eBay feedback page for True Blood character, vampire Bill Compton. To anyone familiar with the series, it's a great laugh. Bill doesn't seem too concerned with the copious amounts of negative feedback he's received, nor with the general quality of the items he's selling. That's just what you should expect when you buy used goods from a vampire.


