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wow...times must be hard!!!

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Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425

Times must be hard when people are selling the instruction tags from gear. And to think I've thrown out TONS of these!!

ebay crap

http://cgi.ebay.com/MOUNTAIN-CLIMBERS-CARABINERS-BLACK-DIAMOND-PAMPHLETS-/300350951577?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi? · · Vegas · Joined May 2005 · Points: 4,115

People can get really creative in hard times- not a bad thing. I probably wouldn't have ever started bottle digging (digging up old bottles to sell, and trade) if I wasn't dead broke, and desperate at the time, and those digs turned out to be some of the most exciting adventures of my life.

Chris Plesko · · Westminster, CO · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 485
Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi? · · Vegas · Joined May 2005 · Points: 4,115

I once saw used strippers shoes, okay, it was "Exotic Dancer" shoes for sale on ebay. It had several bidders, and was up to 78.50 (I never did check to see what it ended at, as I wasn't interested, and it was nasty). The shoes, that were a cheapish brand of pumps were beat up, and it even showed a piece of a bandaid stuck on the inner back of one of the shoes, and the seller desrcibed all the war wounds, and such. The seller had a photo of a woman in a miniskirt sitting on a couch with her legs crossed, and the shoes on, but not showing her face. I must say, the ad looked very professional.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is that there's a buyer for everything from climbing equipment tags, to used strippers, and hookers shoes, to old bottles, to snakes, to "vintage" aliens. ; )

EDIT: So all you broke climbing bums: get your most rank climbing shoes you can find, take a photo of them on a sexy male climber with nice, shaved, and oiled legs in a provocative pose, and throw in a little spice to the description of all the risque climbing moves performed in the shoes, and they will sell for top dollar.

Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth....

Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi? · · Vegas · Joined May 2005 · Points: 4,115

Sorry, Scott, I haven't brewed my coffee yet (just woke up, and my hair is sticking up).

Tim C · · Lakewood, CO · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 215

How can you pass up instructions from "Black Diamond Brand RELAYS & QUICKDRAWS"
I love BD Relays!

Mike Lane · · AnCapistan · Joined Jan 2006 · Points: 880

Actually, this is phase IV of Obama's stimulus plan, give it a chance for cryin' out loud!

Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425
Mike Lane wrote:Actually, this is phase IV of Obama's stimulus plan, give it a chance for cryin' out loud!
+1 This is what small business owners will need to do once the tax breaks go away.
Mike Lane · · AnCapistan · Joined Jan 2006 · Points: 880

The best way to start a small business with the current leadership in this country is to have a big business first!

Brigette Beasley · · Monroe, WA · Joined Sep 2008 · Points: 275
Scott McMahon wrote:Times must be hard when people are selling the instruction tags from gear. And to think I've thrown out TONS of these!! cgi.ebay.com/MOUNTAIN-CLIMB…
I wonder whose trash he was digging through when he found these...
timt · · Wheat Ridge, CO · Joined Jan 2006 · Points: 50

i wonder if he has any tags from aliens? man, i'd pay like $30 each for those!

Pete Elliott · · Co Spgs CO · Joined Jul 2006 · Points: 95

If you dig through the viewable items in his feedback list he has sold, hubcaps, lengths of chain, and 5 packs of cassette tape cases.

No 100 buck Aliens though.

Pete Elliott · · Co Spgs CO · Joined Jul 2006 · Points: 95
I had to add... this is another of his auctions although not climbing related.

cgi.ebay.com/4-ASSORTED-ITE…

Please note at the bottom of his auction for bottles of pills...


"All are new or like new - should be O.K. in-spite of age stamps

Wow.
Kurt Ross · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 280

I ha e nice shaved and oiled legs if anyone needs some.

Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi? · · Vegas · Joined May 2005 · Points: 4,115
Kurt Ross wrote:I have nice shaved and oiled legs if anyone needs some.
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That'll work.

Hmmm, which MPer can come up with the best, most provocative, detailed description to get the most bidders, and top dollar for shoes used, and abused by Kurt? I have a few in mind.
J C Wilks · · Loveland, CO · Joined Aug 2006 · Points: 310

I'd bid on the tags if they had coffee stains of Jesus, Mary and Spiro Agnew.

Woodchuck ATC · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 3,280
Pete Elliott wrote:If you dig through the viewable items in his feedback list he has sold, hubcaps, lengths of chain, and 5 packs of cassette tape cases. No 100 buck Aliens though.
What, no 8-tracks for sale?

I've got a drawer full of harness and biner tags(so idiotic that EACH biner purchased now must have an individual tag warning us how Not to use it) I'll be rich on ebay within hours when I post up my old jumar and Leeper 'Z piton tags.
Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425
Stephen Berwanger · · Montrose, CO · Joined Jun 2007 · Points: 290

SWEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have my instructions for every piece of gear I have ever owned.
I'm sitting on a gold mine!!!! Gotta be worth $10,000 +
Who would have thunk it?!?!?!?
Make me offers!!!!!

Michael Kopinsky · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2010 · Points: 5
Stephen Berwanger wrote:SWEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have my instructions for every piece of gear I have ever owned. I'm sitting on a gold mine!!!! Gotta be worth $10,000 + Who would have thunk it?!?!?!? Make me offers!!!!!
I'll buy you a beer if you take me climbing. You can feel free to leave the instructions in my trunk or yours, depending how legit you need to feel about the sale.
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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