ebay

Today in class we were talking about the ridiculous things people put on ebay. I went and looked on ebay and found a pair of "diamond encrusted fake nails" selling for 5,000. Seriously? It amazes me what people get away with lately. There was an article a couple months ago about a man who believed he bought the body of bigfoot on ebay. Someone else was trying to sell a water bottle Justin Beiber supposedly drank from for $500. The crazy thing is, I don't doubt someone will actually buy it. For every crazy thing on the internet being sold, there's definitely a person out there equally strange enough to buy whatever is being sold. With all the creativity in the world, and the sheer amount of people, there's always going to be a demand for the strange and unusual in order to escape from the pressures of the normalizing structures of society. It's too bad though that there are so many scam artists trying to take advantage of these people. At least 1/3 of the things on craigslist and ebay are not authentic and merely bait for unsuspecting and trusting people.