Sorry if someone has already posted this, but i'd liek to share it... im amazed but still its a good idea for charity :-)

Slightly bored i was looking through ebay..
and this is what i found
Slightly bored i was looking through ebay..
and this is what i found
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5651954281&fromMakeTrack=true


Has the world gone mad?
I dont mean the charity part of it but bidding for it

Donna and charliex

HA HA HA HA HA  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA sense of humour or what!!!!!!!!

Anyone want to buy some leftover King Prawn crispy noodles? 

lol i was just thinking i have a well out of date lottery ticket

Do you think it would sell?

;-)

Donna and charliex

when i was packing stuff up to move house a few months ago I found my lottery ticket from the first ever lottery draw approx 10-11 years ago.  unfortunately it did not win but one day it may be worth something - maybe not.  keep a look out for it on ebay in 10 years time :rolleyes:

Oh dear me, made me laugh to, and the seller lives in Stockton-on-Tees where i come from. Do they actually give it to charity though? How on earth did you come across that one?

Ive no idea but i understand by reading the questions at the bottom the sprout has become a legend... (lol)
So i think the owners have no option to give it to charity

I came across it by accident... boredom i think :-)

Donna and charliex

>>the seller lives in Stockton-on-Tees

That explains alot then...:D :D :D :P

Emily....from Guisborough!!

Amazing !.

Anyway, talking of sprouts.....I found this earlier, made me giggle !.
http://www.willflashforcash.com/parp.php

i used to live in Guisborough! then moved to Redcar now i live in Manchester with my boyfriend!! whata amall world!!(maybe not but most people have never heard of Guisborough!!

i also lived in guisborough! I worked in The Seven Stars for a few years.  Lovely (with an air of sarcasm)! Moved back to sunny Skelton (lived there as a kid until i left home at 18), then moved to Ingleby Barwick 3 and half years ago. My roots are well and truly planted now!

nicola

Ah, yes the lovely Seven Stars :D :D Spent New Year in there a few years ago.....couldn't get in anywhere else...lol! Whereabouts in Gizbro did you live??

i used to live above that surfy shop near the laddie, then i moved into the stars for 6mths.

Ah yes, that shop that no-one knew how to say the name of! Don't think its there anymore..but Scoffers is still there, making the best sarnies EVER!!!

oooo yeah-they were lovely. I still go to guis to get my haircut (line two), but thats about it, will have to get a scoffers next time i go though! They rock. Big time-you get so much you can't fit your gob round it!! Mmmmmm.......scoffers.......I think that shop was called Adrenalin-or it was when i lived above it.

Yes, I used to go to Line Two, when it was behind Sunnyfield house then it moved to Chalenor Street...don't go now though as my hairdresser moved to London, must be why my hair is past my shoulders when normally its boyish short :D :D
LOL about Scoffers, we used to go there some days for dinner when we were at school, and even us greedy teenagers sometimes couldn't manage the whole sarnie...kept some as a snack on the long dawdle home through town and behind Somerfield(now Sainsburys) Ah, memories :D

I live in Ingleby Barwick, didn't realise there was that many of us on here from teesside. I probably see you walking your dog!!!!

Ah, you live in Toy Town then! No offence :D One of my friends lives there, when she not in Manchester, its like a damn maze!

Anyone walk their dog at Preston Park? I used to take beard boy there for training before they drained the ponds, great for swimming....the dogs not me!!!

I knew there were a few smoggies on here...seems wherever you go you meet someone from just down the road...small world!

No offence taken. I didn't dare mention exactly where i live at first, and then someone else said they lived in Ingleby Barwick, as we seem to have a bad reputation :) Yes we like to go to preston park and walk through the woods, there was a really nasty swan in the river last time i went it was hissing at the dogs and followed us a long way to make sure the dogs didn't go in the water.

you might just louise! I'm the one with the yellow and choccy labs that have a habit of running up to everyone/thing, and the yellow one barks at people she's unsure of! And i look like i've been dragged through a a row of hedges backwards who's been wallowing in mud first :D !

i don't got to the park as often as i used to. I go to coatham woods a lot. Its mostly dog walker who go, and theres loads of land. We always enjoy it and never get bored of going.

when i moved here, i got the 'fur coats and no knickers' (spend so much on fur coats trying to look posh, and have no money for knickers...) remarks from my old bosses. Hmm..... I'm as common as they come, own lovely knickers, and not a fur coat in sight!

We meet two choccy labs, but no yellow ones so i don't think we have met you yet!! From your description i am sure i would have remembered you :). I have had soooo many negative comments about where i live i am almost embarrassed to say now I have just been for a walk to Tesco with Tyler my goldie.

i think i know the labs you mean-with a fella, quite chukny and vocal? I live on broom park, so i'm normally mooching over the back somewhere. Or at coatham woods!

oo i don't care about the ingleby comments. I count myself lucky. If the house prices when we bought ours were what they are now, i wouldn't be where i am. I got a Leech house at a Persimmon price-bargain! They're just jealous louise :)

It's two sperate owners with the labs, we live off Blair Avenue. We are off to Osmotherley today so that shall be fun, will come back covered in mud and all sorts, but it's a lovely walk.

apparently (so the local paper said), the lad who's selling it is giving 90% of the winning bid to charity (see here ), but whether he does or not is a different matter....

It says on the auction "NICHOLAS STARTED OFF AS A CHRISTMAS JOKE HE HAS NOW BECOME FAMOUS AND HAS NOW DECIDED 95% OF THE WINNING BID WILL GO TO CANCER RESEARCH UK THE OUSTANDING WILL PAY FOR THE EBAY FEES."  so I suppose he is - depending on whether the top bidder pays up of course !

A friend of mine that runs a cat charity that pays for vet fees etc for rescued cats runs auctions like these. The whole idea is to get the item noticed as much as possible (so the weirder the better as people will pass it around for a laugh, and also if it ends up in the Ebay pulse it gets featered more prominently by Ebay) and people will bid just for the fun of it, knowing it all goes to charity. It's often a good way to raise a bit of money, and I don't suppose the bidders always expect to actually receive the item, LOL. :)

Not far from Guisborough myself Emily. Love the sprout song made me smile :) So in regards to the famous sprout auction does one winner have to pay the whole sum like an ordinary auction or is it small donations by lots of people?

If you click on the link that shows the amount of bids been put in you'll see who has been bidding and for how much.  The thing is the highest bidder at the moment who is currently bidding £1550.00 previously retracted a bid :

rachel6096 ( 0 )  Cancelled: £1,500.00
Explanation:i have reason to beleive this is not a genuine bid

So does this mean that if no-one else bids (and they have stated that 95% of proceeds goes to charity) and Rachel6096 is the 'winner' she will cry wolf and not pay up her amount to charity ?  :rolleyes:

Poor sprout - hope he does get a nice new home in a new freezer from someone who will love him for himself :D

Bless perhaps Sprout rescue might get involved :p

Lol :). I love the word sprout.

As we were driving to friends yesterday afternoon, we passed a farm shop and outside was the sign "a brussel sprout is not just for Christmas" :D

Margot

lol!

I agree lol, definatley not just for christmas i can't stop eating them at the moment!! I used to hate them until a few months ago now i can't get enough :)