Runaway Bride Toasted

[elizabethann]

Here's an update:

Runaway Bride Toast Seller Gets Burned

POSTED: 2:03 pm EDT May 9, 2005
UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT May 9, 2005

STILLWATER, N.J. -- A New Jersey man who tried to capitalize on the runaway bride story is very unhappy.

Perry Lonzell carved an image of jittery bride Jennifer Wilbanks on a piece of toast and auctioned it on eBay.

The opening bid was $1.11, but as the story drew attention, so did the toast until that piece of bread commanded $15,400.

The Newark Star-Ledger says a California man who submitted the winning bid has reneged.

The seller is considering legal action. He not only is stuck with the toast, he says he also owes some bread: $500 in fees to eBay

[dukedogsmom]

Ha ha!

[Fox-Gal]

I heard that on the news today. He's thinking about getting a lawyer to get his money off this guy. The guy who bid wasn't thinking, once you bid on E-bay, it's the same a signing a contract. If he gets taking to court, he's screwed!

The E-bay fee's for $500 he can get back all he has to do is file a non-bidding payment on the guy and E-bay will give him his selling fees back. It's just the guy is all about the $$$$, so got to cry about the $500 too, even thought, he didn't really lose that.

I thinks it's great the buyer backed out and this idiot got taken, just like he was taking others by trying to sell a piece of toast for $$$$. What goes around comes around.

[LoudLou]

Originally posted by Fox-Gal
...this idiot got taken, just like he was taking others by trying to sell a piece of toast for $$$$. What goes around comes around.

Ok, first off, yes it Was ridiculous, however, P.T. Barnum said, "There is a sucker born every minute.”

No Where in his description did he ever say she just “magically appeared” or that it was some “divine” etching on his toast. He fully admitted to deciding to carve her image in his toast and put it on Ebay… I can not call this guy stupid or condemn him for being merely creative and capitalizing on this. It was a legitimate auction. A binding contract.
How many of us had a Pet Rock? Sea Monkeys?
Millions of dollars were made on those two Pop Culture items alone…