{"id":5237,"date":"2011-10-13T04:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2011-10-24T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:37:15","slug":"widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"Kilobucks for Kilowidgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/180729964545\">eBay lot #180729964545 sold on 26 September 2011 for a price of $1000 plus $140 for <abbr title=\"shipping and handling\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">s&amp;h<\/abbr>.<\/a>  Categorized in <q><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Collectibles-\/1\/i.html\">Collectibles<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Advertising-\/34\/i.html\">Advertising<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Food-Beverage-\/13587\/i.html\">Food &amp; Beverage<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Cereal-\/10785\/i.html\">Cereal<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/Kellogg-\/10787\/i.html\">Kellogg<\/a><\/q>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/180729964545\">the listing was entitled <q>1,000 Widgets<\/q>.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/180729964545\">The description said only <q>1000 Widgets<\/q><\/a> (omitting the comma).  There was no picture.  <a href=\"http:\/\/feedback.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=oldcoffinnail&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller\">Two days later, the buyer left feedback declaring <q>good widgets. thanks<\/q>. <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/180734234607\">On 6 October, another 1000 widgets were allegedly sold as lot #180734234607, again for a price of $1000, but this time with $197 for <abbr title=\"shipping and handling\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">s&amp;h<\/abbr>.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feedback.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=oldcoffinnail&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller\">The purchasing account left a feedback on 11 October that simply says <q>acceptable<\/q>.<\/a><\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/members.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=www.sjglew.com\">The buying account is shared by Joshua Glew and his father, Steven John Glew.<\/a>  The latter has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pezoutlaw.com\/\">a &#39;blog that seems to relate some dirty doings by the Pez Corporation<\/a>, but which I've done no more than skim because it's written in a decidedly ill-organized fashion.<\/p> <p>A thousand <em>widgets?<\/em><\/p><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"eBay lot #180729964545 sold on 26 September 2011 for a price of $1000 plus $140 for s&amp;h. Categorized in Collectibles &gt; Advertising &gt; Food &amp; Beverage &gt; Cereal &gt; Kellogg, the listing was entitled 1,000 Widgets. The description said only 1000 Widgets (omitting the comma). There was no picture. Two days later, the buyer left [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86,334,1066],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-ebay","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}