eBay experiment I made this!
I'm a big fat skinter and my shitty car is dying on me. The MOT is due at the end of June and it's NOT going to pass. Oh no.
So I've come up with this wishful thinking idea and we'll see what happens.

Probably nothing and I'll be cycling to work from the end of june. :(

:::EDIT::: now reduced the starting price to one penny!
( NobbyNobody, Thu 24 May 2007, 14:49, Reply)

That is an awesome idea regardless of whether anyone bids or not...
But I hope they do for your sake!
( mike woz ere - taking the 'the' out of psychotherapist, Thu 24 May 2007, 14:52, Reply)

brilliant idea!
hope someone partakes
( m-a-t-t -- formerly mini is done! 5 months off wa hey!, Thu 24 May 2007, 14:55, Reply)

that's ace
good luck fella
(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:01, Reply)

Oooh!
Good idea! Good luck!
( Monty Propps has fecking man 'flu, bastard shitty shit cakes, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:03, Reply)

Ha
you have to tell us if this works...
so we may try it
( Miss Scunner sets sail for Portmanteau, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:08, Reply)

Agreed this is a fine idea ,
Best of luck.
( war3n3xt one two three four five six, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:21, Reply)

nice idea
ask the ginger fuhrer to newsletter it and you may get a flurry of bids around friday afternoon. You'll likely get diddly if the only people that see it are this board and ebayers.
( Damocles wants to poke you with his big sword, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:24, Reply)

Excellent idea!
I would bid if I had something to advertise.
( Fork Chuff off, you chuff., Thu 24 May 2007, 15:28, Reply)

The small print ruins it for me
I'd cheerfully fork out a grand to have a nice big "REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER INSIDE" logo on your car.
(Friz 3.0 Not to be confused with Friz 3.0 or Friz 3.0, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:30, Reply)

set the starting bid to zero and we'll newsletter it

( rob http://robmanuel.tumblr.com/, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:36, Reply)

I bet you say that
To all the girls.
( Monty Propps has fecking man 'flu, bastard shitty shit cakes, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:42, Reply)

But if the winning bid is 11p
I'd be obliged to buy a car myself to place the ad on, totally defeating the whole point of the exercise.

Please newsletter it anyway! pretty please?
( NobbyNobody, Thu 24 May 2007, 17:20, Reply)

start low
you'll get some bids

start high and it's a hard hard sell
( rob http://robmanuel.tumblr.com/, Thu 24 May 2007, 17:34, Reply)

Ok!
I'll do it!
You know what you're talking about and I trust you!

I'll change it just as soon as I get home from work, eBay is blocked. :(
( NobbyNobody, Thu 24 May 2007, 18:03, Reply)

Can't you set a reserve?
I think I should have done that, as I'm now in danger of not even covering the fees on my car (see above).
Nice idea by the way, good luck with it.
( Odradek the Indecisive, Thu 24 May 2007, 18:03, Reply)

I don't like reserves
They're like a starting price but hidden and I think people give up if they come up againt a reserve that's higher that their first bid.
( NobbyNobody, Thu 24 May 2007, 18:13, Reply)

Bindun - sorta
I used to work in a building where lots of small businesses had rented offices.

In the kitchen one day I met a chap who told me with pride that he sold wrap-around electronic signs for cars.

He told me how he could get around the ban on advertising junk food near schools by paying single mums to show burger adverts on their cars.
( bachgammon has an unshakable alibi for, Thu 24 May 2007, 15:58, Reply)

Well yes.
There's certainly nothing new about advertising on cars.

It's the selling the advertising space in order to raise the money to buy the car that's the point of the exercise.
( NobbyNobody, Thu 24 May 2007, 17:22, Reply)