28 comments on “No Wonder…”

  1. You know, I’m gonna go take a crap and sell it on eBay, claming I got it out of the can of somebody famous.

    I bet I’d make a pretty healthy (if disgusting) profit.

    Man, people are pathetic.

  2. Holy man – that is incredible. Incredibly ridiculous. Suuure, the numbers just *showed up* on your toast. And people are paying $4,000 for that? *falls down ded*

  3. Magically no. I remember seeing toasters on eaby or google a few months back that can put images on your toast. Now a piece of toast for 5 grand. Serioulsy is this what we’v come to. I know lost is a great TV show and all. But for a freaking peace of toast. Somebody needs to beat the hëll out of those people.

  4. The current high bidders last purchase was for a Manual of Clinical Periodontics. Just what we need – another deranged dentist loose on the world. Watch out, Dustin Hoffman.

  5. Okay, no one here seriously belives this is for real do they? My guess is all the bids are from friends of this person and they’re just playing off the “Mary” toast phenom.

  6. IF this is on the level. Big IF. I strongly recommend whomever wins gets sent for a serious psychiatric evaluation.

  8. I just can’t even comment. But, it makes me wonder…if the auction closes, does the seller have to pay the ebay listing fee? and isn’t that based on a % of the final bid? That’s going to make this turn into one expensive joke…Maybe the numbers ARE evil, after all. Or at least they won’t allow such mocking….

  9. does the seller have to pay the ebay listing fee? and isn’t that based on a % of the final bid?

    Yes, and yes. Which is why I’m surprise the auction hasn’t been cancelled and the seller kicked off the site.

  10. The seller can avoid paying the fee by filing an item dispute, in the event that the buyer doesn’t pay.

  12. Recently someone paid over 10G for a Hot Wheels car. It wasn’t in the original package & the paint was chipped.

  13. Are these people on crack? Who would seriously bid on this? I hope this is a joke but its going to be an expensive one.

  14. Here I am selling some comics (Requiemtx on ebay) to help a non profit and some marketing maniac is making $5000.00 to my 78.50.

  15. You know, it’s too bad Johnny Carson isn’t still alive, and hosting the _Tonight Show_. He could invite the eventual winner on with the toast, and when the person’s not looking, appear to take a big bite out of it, the way he did with the potato chip lady.
    (For those who don’t know, some woman who collected unusually shaped potato chips came on, and Carson appeared to eat one. Actually, he had a bowl of regular chips hidden behind his desk. The look on that woman’s face when she heard that crunch was priceless.)

    And, on a related note, I’ve got to agee that anyone who’d pay several thousand dollars for a piece of toast should… reassess their priorities. I don’t care if it’s got the _Lost_ numbers, a map showing the location of Jimmy Hoffa’s burial site, or the address of the Burger King Elvis is currently working at; _any_ price is too ridiculously high.

    I mean, it’s just _toast_. It’s not like it’s a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

    Not that I’d pay several thousand dollars for one. But if I did, for some reason, I’d still eat it. I mean, that’s why God gave us peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

    Rick

  16. Hey Rick, Golden Palace dot com has paid thousands for ridiculously innane objects. They get their money’s worth in the free publicity that it draws from news agencies. Since they can’t advertise in more conventional ways, they’ve come up with a very creative way to get their gambling website out there.

    Fred

  17. Did anyone here scroll down to the part where the seller says, “Serious bids only, please”? Yeah, because we wouldn’t want, ya know, any weirdos or losers or anything……

  18. I doubt this is anything more than a goof, but those responses to the buyer questions are priceless. 🙂

    “C’mon, if Hurley came with the toast, do you really think the toast would make it?”

  19. I can think of three things that are seriously wrong with this:

    1) This was *not* featured in the show — it was based on something featured in the show! I could (maybe) see a huge fan buying the actual hatch from LOST, or a t-shirt signed by the stars. But just the numbers from there? I should sell an undershrit, claiming it’s just like the one Jack wore on LOST.

    2) If the numbers *do* work like on the show, you’re an idiot (or hate everyone around you). In that episode, the cursed numbers caused misfortune (and sometimes death) to the people around Hurley. And you’ll pay money for that?

    3) If the numbers don’t work, the high bidder is paying several thousand dollars for someone’s proof that they can write digits on a piece of toast. Wow.

    This is more proof that there are lots of people with far too much money and far too little brains.

    (As for me, I’m going to have to experiment to see what images I can toast. Apparently the cost-profit ratio is pretty dámņ sweet!)

  20. The other day, I went to an auction north of Waikiki where all the materials from FOX’s “North Shore” was being sold. Some was good. Some was not. Some was absolutely fantastic, and I wish I could have afforded it (or had somewhere to put it.. or both..)

    But nowhere did I see anything as impressive as that toast!

    (Well, ok.. I did have some pocket lint with me the other day that could have challenged it…)

    Amazing.

    RLR

  21. Might be one of the funniest things I’ve seen on E-bay. I love his username, “losttoast”!

    The buyer questions and his responses are great too:

    Q: You need to look further into this. EVIL LOST TOAST is an anagram for SOLVE ITS TOTAL. The numbers total 108. I did a Google search on “108 EVIL TOAST” and came up with this site http:// http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/drinks/corby/toast-annee.htm They mention the Japanese have a toast for the 108 sins a person can commit. I think your toast is just the beginning of something much bigger.

    A: Dear jpgator27, HUH? Thanks.

  23. Go do a search for just “toast” on eBay – there are an astounding number of pieces of toast for sale (though none of the rest of them are in the $5000 ballpark). Today there are a couple of “Brittney Spears Baby” toasts with “mysterious messages” about the upcoming birth of Brittney’s baby (they look like they were carved into the toast with a spoon – that’s not so clever, really).

    There’s also a guy who’s willing to personalize whatever message you want on your toast for 150 pounds. What a bargain! And someone actually has a bid for $26 on a piece of toast with an image that they claim is Jay Leno on it. Apparently, there’s an entire subculture of toast-collectors on eBay. Who knew? 🙂

  25. It’s a joke. Has to be. The ‘toast’ itself is obviously a sloppy-ášš PhotoShop picture and nobody sane is going to bid that much for toast with a TV show reference. It’s obviously a parody of the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich (or whatever it was) and the bidders are in on it.

  26. weather its a joke or not. Remember, the prankster has to pay a certain % of the total cost of that, So he’s going to be paying a couple grand just to get a good laugh.

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