Original drawing of a 7-legged spider sells for $10,000.
cgi.ebay.com/Original-drawing-of-a-7-legged-s...Posted Nov 20, 2008, 5:34 PM UTC
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We'll see if the winner actually pays up, or draws a picture and emails it to him.
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I think this would be the only reasonable assumption to make. I don't think anyone would be crazy enough to actually pay for this. Although the idea is pretty great.
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It was stated quite clearly in the "questions to seller" that he would only accept money, and not drawings, due to the fact that some monies will be donated to charity. If someone paid with a drawing, he would need to tear the drawing into pieces to share with charity, and that would not be good...
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Crazy?
Have you actually stopped to think about that?
Give a thought to what makes art valuable. And the role that the Internet may have in determining that in the future. Is it more unreasonable for someone to suppose that this spider, and the history of the meme and such won't be held as "art" in 40 years than it was for someone in a cafe in Spain who saw someone painting noses on the wrong side of faces and heard some positive comments of people nearby and paid a high price for it, believing it might one day be valuable?
At least in this case, you know the work already have the exposure of being known by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. The same wouldn't be true if you were buying a painting from a relatively unknown painter or something like that.
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Thank god I saved that "All your base are belong to us" shirt with the integrated media player that says my name over and over and over.....
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we done gots dees all on over our backyard! Fry mah hide! i'm a-gonna be rich now! Fry mah hide! hope mah Pappy don't come home drunk agin, beat me an' take mah money! Fry mah hide!
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A year from now nobody will care about this image, hell nobody cares now, except for some lame dudes in a cafe in Spain...
For fucks sake, can you have no PERSPECTIVE?
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This thing has no value as art. Do you really think people with 10Gs to invest in art don't know better than that, even if they know its memehood?
It could be easily duplicated. The 'piece' doesn't stand alone, without the story, for anything.
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And explain a Jackson Pollock...
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I wonder which "period" this work will fall under.
Will the artist switch to 8-legged spiders in the future, or even a different animal entirely!
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I was considering bidding $10,001, but I was late in putting in my bid.
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Dear David, I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $10,000 so trust that this settles the matter.
Regards, Ebay buyer.
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I suppose ebay will require a portion of the drawing (like say a spare leg) as compensation for facilitating the transaction.
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They can take one of the four legs on one side. That will make the spider aesthetically pleasing and thus worth more money.
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Actually, that will make the spider into an ant.
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Not really. Ants have three main body segments- head, thorax, and abdomen, while spiders have two- cephalothorax and abdomen. So taking a leg away would make it a double-amputee spider, not an ant.
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How do the seller fees work with these overpriced auctions when the buyer isn't likely to pay? Does anyone know?
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I tried to sell a shitty laptop on ebay many times and it kept getting purchased for $3000 by Nigerian scammers.
There was no communication needed to refund the fees if I was relisting the item again on ebay. I had to send in an email when I eventually decided not to sell it on ebay at all because of scammers. It was not hard to get out of paying the fees.
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Sell it on Craigslist locally, works much better that way
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The seller has to pay them, and the false bidder is taken to court and, hopefully, anally raped for decades until they are allowed to die of old age, a 17 inch dildo still protruding from their ass.
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there are no spare legs
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That would be very ironic indeed.
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The winning bidder should fax the money.
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FREE SHIPPING!
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What the fuck am I doing with my life when I could be drawing MSPaint spiders.
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Fuck that. More efficient just to "Save Image As" existing drawings of spiders...
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Yeah, I just pirated the spider and gonna surprise my wife with it when I get home. She deserves some classy art for all the hard work she does.
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Sure... you retire and try to do that.
If it doesn't work, become a painter! Surely you can manage what Jackson Pollock does, right?
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Throw paint at a canvas and call it 'art'?
Nah, but my little sister does a pretty good job.
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You could throw a canvas at your little sister after she's done painting and call that art.
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Just goes to show you how far the dollar has sunk.
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Actually the dollar is doing quite well given it's history over the past 6 months.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDEUR=X&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
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Yeah, when the banking crisis really came to light it started to pick up against the Euro.
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The guy who bought it has refused to pay for it:
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What the hell, that guy sounds like the biggest idiot ever.
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I also liked how the article called it a "photograph"
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We should somehow get him to:
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Pay the fuck up
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Chug a bottle of hot sauce
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Profit!
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If only we knew what ??? was!
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Why does the article say $15,000 when even the attached screenshot has $10k as the winning bid.
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AUSTRALIA MOTHERFUCKER
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I can't believe this made it to my local fox news @ 10. I LOL'd when they displayed the 7-legged spider drawing on TV.
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I will donate some of the money for American Breast Cancer Foundation.
What baffles me is why he wouldn't donate anything to the American Spider Amputee Foundation??
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this should explain things http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,24674837-5014239,00.html
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I have always enjoyed the social websites such as Digg and Reddit and will quietly admit to 4chan and the like.
So does he dare show his face if he browses reddit?
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I never go to digg, but when I come home from the bar, sometimes I will hit up 4chan. I always find crazy stuff on there like this.
It was live when I saw it.
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Nice catch.
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I'm holding out for his later "8-legged" correction spider.
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Somebody is laundering money...
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There must be some sort of super rich meme loving sasquatch monitoring the internet at all times.
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Q: How does it shot web? A: Hi, it uses already existing webs.
Made me chuckle.
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I hate spiders.
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Ok Ron Weasley. Psh.
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Psh = Pure spider hate?
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they better check that it's the original and not the copy/pasted version. Also since it now has an established value, he should commence a lawsuit against that billing company for pirating copies of it in their email system.
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Ebay has now officially become a joke.
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Ok so if you get a friend to bid a large sum of money on your auction, with the understanding that neither of you have this much money, the bidder then selecting payment as sent and the seller marking payment as received, can you both get away with a very large transaction that never existed, thus gaining ebay status or benefits??
Or will there be Fees over the small listing fee, that the seller would have to deal with as NakedOni calculated at work?
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There's something like a 6% fee of the final selling price. As well as the nominal listing fee.
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I bet he can pay off those bills now...
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Well, it's finally clear:
Holy Shit, you found out what the ??? has always been!
This will go down in history as the Gaucho Theory.
I second this.
Someone put it on Encyclopedia Dramatica, stat!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho_theory
They've tagged it for speedy deletion due to being "unsalvageably incoherent". I'd say that needs to be changed. I stubbified it, took away the speedy delete, and gave reason to keep it around, at least for a little bit. It still definitely needs some more content for that to hold.
Those bastards, I put in a hangon tag, and was in the middle of writing a justification and someone just comes along and deletes the entire article for vandalism. Meh, now I remember why I gave up on ever trying to add anything to wikipedia meaningful to wiki, cause you can't even add something with little meaning without being viciously censored.
Bahahahahaha!!! XD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaucho_theory
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I can't get behind this. It flies in the face of the Barrel Rollologists.
You must achieve this epistemological shift, no matter how personally traumatic. For SCIENCE!!!
According to Stigler's Law of Eponymy, which states that scientific discoveries are never named after their original discoverer, this should be called Badalchemist's Theory. Or Tardmrr's Discovery, because he made the bestof post.
You sure that's actually Stigler's Law?
Then that law states that Gaucho isn't the original discoverer, not that the theory needs renaming.
Or rather, as El Gaucho Theory
its too let, its will forever be "Gaucho Theory"
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someone put it on a napkin
Well, our WP page is finally down. Plainly knowing that the article would go against several policies, I still learned more than I thought about the experience:
Yes, lets not name it after the guy who actually did it, lets name it after some joker who mentioned it on reddit. brillant!
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I don't get it
"That is why you fail"
-Yoda
Look closer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho_theory
But... But... the whole concept of
is it's own internet meme. In addition to being one giant moneymaker for its creator, this also raises serious recursion questions.
Yo dawg, I herd you like Internet memes. So we put an Internet meme inside your Internet meme, so u can do it for the lulz while you're doing it for the lulz
dude... it's "herd" not "heard", "u" not "you" and "you're" not "your"...
geez
It's memes all the way in!
Good. I've always felt it needed moar lulz.
if the ??? is "Create internet meme," and the do-stuff->???->Profit is itself a meme, that would make the concept:
Sounds like every job ever.
Sounds about right
Yes, it appears so. Yes it does..
Notice how Profit is never achieved... Anyway "is a meme" is not "is all memes"
That didn't work for Radioshack...
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isn't the whole sequence simply another internet meme?
It's from South Park for crying out loud. It's not an internet meme. Expect for idiots who think it's an internet meme.
actually, the internet meme was inspired by south park, but is different. The internet meme has a second step before ???. check the wikipedia entry.
Really? South Park thought of this? Those crazies. I'm going to have to look at this. Do you have a link? Thanks!
Thanks, never heard of this South Park you speak of before.
Fools! Step 2 has always been "Charge"!
Can the auto industry use this information to secure their bailout?! That's what I want to know!
Sorry fellow Hawkeye, but there are 4 steps there. Apparently this isn't the profit scheme we were looking for.
Doesn't work for this one:
or does it?
[edit] My sincerest apologies for the use of the "p" word
Excuse me, but you should know that the word "pig" is no longer in use here at reddit. It has been replaced with the word "prebacon".
I trust you will remember this in future correspondences.
It doesn't apply; that doesn't end in "profit!"
I don't know what world you live in, but here, on reddit, bacon IS profit.
He accidentally the whole ???.
Dude, I don't like it when my memes touch each other. No. He didn't.
Its not gay as long as the memes don't touch.
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I thought it had already been decided that ???? was save money in the bank.
Quick, go back in time!
It's just a step to the left...
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(5) Italian Spiderman sues for IP infringement.
Actually I won it, and I plan on sending her a picture of a 9 legged spider, posting the results to a blog, then selling the 9 legged spider drawing for $100,000.
I think a 9-legged spider should sell for $1,000,000...
1 leg = $0.01, 2 legs = $0.10, 3 legs = $1, 4 legs = $10, 5 legs = $100, 6 legs = $1,000, 7 legs = $10,000, 8 legs = $100,000, 9 legs = $1,000,000
...Holy shit, we can almost eliminate the national debt with a 16-legged spider...
I've heard of counterfeit 16-legged spider pictures, so buyer beware.
I'm sure the Treasury already has its best people on the job...
Sure but you gotta wait in line behind Chocolate Rain (Tay Zonday), Laughing baby, Evil eye Hampster, Numa Numa Guy, Star Wars Kid...
No, that's for the theoretical dollars.
Pretty sure Zonday got paid for this
Behold the prophet, for he speaks true.
#5. pay debt.
I will try this soon. Remind me - what's the average memory in America?
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Dude, that was Neptune. That has-been publicity whore.
Edit: Why'd you delete that? That was legitimately funny! Plus a good setup.
Is it even real? Searching for '7-legged spider' doesn't give a match.(None with 10000 dollars.) Edit: The adress bar seems to match, tho'.
Isn't that because it ended so it isn't available through eBay search anymore?
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Placing the theory to the test: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7esww/an_experiment_to_in_gaucho_theory/
Viva ElGaucho!
so I guess you owe the original artist copyright royalties and identity royalties plus damages for publicly and fraudulently presenting yourself as having power of attorney over his original artwork and gaining fame and notoriety that resulted in extreme mental duress for the artist since that fame was rightfully his? Oh Lucy, you got some 'splainin to do!
Judge Judy gonna spank you!
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Stop being so good at making others delete their comments!
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The conversation was made up. The author and the utility woman both spell thank you as one word. How many people make that mistake?
Judging by your comment history, which consists almost entirely of flames, telling people to shut up, and calling things fake (with no basis other than your own opinion), you are probably the most negative potsmoker I've ever known. Congrats.
MARIJUANA IS A GATEWAY DRUG!
A gateway drug to failing on reddit.
my comment history: smokeweed
How did you get upvotes for that? Did anyone even look at my comment history? Libel!
Anyway here's what I'm talking about:
and