We haven’t had a good, wacky eBay story in a while. This one fits the bill:
A New York man is being sued by a car dealer for trying to renege on his $245,000 Buy-It-Now eBay purchase of a 1969 Mercedes-Benz once owned by Elvis. Forty-year-old Jason Shepard, a sales representative from Ballston Lake, N.Y, says he didn’t buy the car – his 2-year-old daughter did.
Shepard says the toddler was sitting on his lap at the computer and tapped his mouse, which just happened to be hovering over the Buy It Now button on Gene Epstein’s Benz auction.
Epstein’s not buying Shepard’s story and is suing him in federal court. EBay refused to comment on the matter, other than to say at that time such a purchase required two mouse clicks.
“It just went zappo,” Shepard told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Right through. If [Morgan] clicked it more than once, I don’t know.”
Easy with the tech terms, Shepard, you’re losing us.
Interestingly, the faux purchase didn’t spoil Shepard on eBay. According to the paper: “A week after the disputed auction, Shepard bought a 1999 Oldsmobile 88 for $4,700 – on eBay.”
The Inquirer story is here (reg required, sorry).
Via Obscure Store
