eBay - The Disappearing Act

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Some peeps may take this page a tad hard to appreciate due to its potential explicit phallic content -- the so-called RELIGIOUS RIGHT from the deep south, in particular, at least publicly (they say that is their own business, unless, of course, they happen to be Bill Clinton!) -- another group that should heed this warning are those totally innocent, impressionable MINORS, excepting those who have live web cams and provide entertaining nightly shows of their talents. Sports enthusiasts who have taken VIAGRA within the last hour are urged to either NOT continue any further, OR to shut the door after their pet dog, potbelly pig or Republican ass has been removed from the room

Welcome to eBay -- The World's Online Fun and Games Place

In conjunction with my Weird eBay web site, this page is dedicated to what I mentioned in my December YES -- a curious observation about an appearing and disappearing photo on some eBay item descriptions of a particular seller. Strange things do happen on the InterNUT, particularly on weekends and Holidays, probably due to fewer peeps available in the maintenance offices or for some other equally dumb reason/s -- after all, things may go wrong at any moment, and not to be able to correct them in a timely manner is the fault of those in charge.

OK, I already wrote about the events as they unfolded, but for those who just tuned in, here is, in a nutshell, a summary of my observations --

1 - I looked at several items selected at random, listed by an eBay seller -- the seller I have personally known for many years

2 - I found a photo that did not seem to fit in with the item being sold, nor did it appear to represent the seller I know, although I have never seem him without a shirt

3 - I took screen shots of several related things in question

4 - I asked a friend who was Instant Messaging me to check out what I saw -- he did not see the same things that I saw

5 - when I returned to the same item pages, the photo was not there

6 - when I checked the URL of the pic, I got the following error message --

-- suggesting that the photo had not been located on the server/URL I found it at originally -- it did reappear on later tries

I shall now show you what I saw, through my usual screen shots of things on the WEB that I am looking at, which I am able to do on my Mac -- I believe there is a way for PC users to do the same thing, albeit, perhaps, with more difficulty.

Here are two of the three eBay items I randomly checked out -- -- which is an auction catalog including fishing lures and related collectibles, and another catallogue about some things from the collection of a well known British gay male musician -- -- the actual item descriptions are to be found on the following URLs, but they will theoretically only remain of eBay's servers for 3 months, which means that my readers will not find them at the end of 2005 -- Fishing Lures / Elton John Collection --

note that photo of some athletic dude playing volley ball --

-- then allow your gaze to focus in the area just above his bermudas. Women do this a lot with athletes, or so I am told. I frequently visually analyze some photos I run across on the WWW, simply because I tend to look for little details which may be significant and tell more than the story/photo is meant to.

Here are digitally enhanced close ups of the area in question --

whether the svelte athletic macho peep is playing really hard volley ball in the sand, or simply that daddy just brought Little Peter along to get some fresh air at the beach, is a question I leave to my readers. But then again, my eyes are not what they used to be, and perhaps I am hallucinating or imagining things?

The seller, Andy, a.k.a (= also known as) The Catalog Kid, is from the eastern Atlantic shore of New Jersey, so I assume the picture was taken along the Jersey beaches -- unless, of course, the photo in question has nothing at all to do with this seller. Would he include such a revealing candid shot just to get more viewers for his items and, perhaps, to exhibit his other available hot selling wares? I thought that he was happily married. hummmmmm -- maybe if I include a pic or two of me wearing designer brand briefs in my eBay listings, I might sell more? Maybe it might be worth a try?

But didn't I try that a couple years ago, in 2001, in my sensational tell-all expose Love xxx Story report? I did not even get a single email feedback comment about that one! A year earlier, in 2000, my frank, open and unashamed Phallus xxx Report, which included the first wowser photos of my phallus ever to appear on the entire InterNUT, had the exact same reaction -- NONE! While they say that sex sells, for some reason I cannot seem to give mine away!

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YES - 2005

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