eBay prankster claims his NES can "float"
by Conrad Quilty-Harper 
{ Nov 6th 2005 at 1:00PM }
One seller on eBay seems to have gone a little too far in his efforts to differentiate his
NES console auction from the rest. The auction enthusiastically titled "FLOATING Nintendo NES It has floated!" is
basically just a NES and some accessories, with the added bonus that it can be seen to float if — and only if
— you hang it up in the air with some included fishing line. Isn't it a little too late for Halloween?!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
juliofino @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
Slow news day. :(
I am striker @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
Doing anything for sale.
Einhanderkiller @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
Wow. You can clearly see the fishing line.
TheMayor87 @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
not as good as the pimp drive.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PIMP-DRIVE-5000-STARTING-BID-13-37_W0QQitemZ8717733468QQcategoryZ44959QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
nightshadow @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
MAN I HAVE GOT TO GET ME ONE OF THOSE !!!!!!!
Jonathan Correa @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
Hey kid....hallowen called.
It's wants its 6 days back....and erase ur lamme-ass atempt to shock anyone.(See thrid pic on ebay page to know what i mean)
ECGXChuck @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
God you people are freaking dense. Did any of you actually read the item description, or did you look at the pretty pictures and just like a normal ass jump to conclusions? He's advertising that he used fishing line to make it float, and that he's even including the fishing line he used.
It's called a joke people, look it up in your damn precious Wikipedia.
ZeroCorpse @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
In the future, the VH1 show "I Love The 00s" will have a segment where they remember cheesy eBay gimmick auctions. Everybody will groan at how lame eBay was, and laugh at the idiots who paid for haunted video game systems and dolls on the auction site that was forced out of business in 2027 due to being overrun by illegal businesses, black market merchants, and scam artists. Then Kal-El Coppola Cage and Lourdes Ciccone (nee Ritchie) will goof around in segments about the day Wikipedia merged with Google and become sentient.
Jason @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
Haha. Clever.
rawrndragon @ Dec 18th 2005 9:42PM
"This auction is brought to you by RetroNintendo.com and is for a working NES that floats when you attach the included fishing line to your ceiling. It does not actually defy gravity."
It was a joke to try to raise money for thier website. It doesn't take a heaping spoonful of intellegence to figure that out.