Someone please explain this...

[kev curry]

That's grotesque...the bidders must all be #ankers I mean bankers! In that case they should all be immediately rounded up and beaten to within an inch of there miserable lives with a thick lead pipe and then sent off to guantanamo for a minimum of 5 years for further twice daily torture before being dispatched by a leathal injection of mad hungry grizzly bears into there cages!

[Per Madsen]

That's grotesque...the bidders must all be #ankers I mean bankers! In that case they should all be immediately rounded up and beaten to within an inch of there miserable lives with a thick lead pipe and then sent off to guantanamo for a minimum of 5 years for further twice daily torture before being dispatched by a leathal injection of mad hungry grizzly bears into there cages!

You missed the bidders being forced to listen to Florence Foster Jenkins 12 hours each day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

[anachromatic]

May be a soft-focus lens...

[CarstenW]

Odd, I don't see what this lens has over the following one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350310794335

The weird thing is that the final price requires not one, but two, lunatics. I wonder if the seller was pushing the bids up with a second account? Perhaps the winner accidentally typed in 40000 instead of 4000. I would be surprised if this lens isn't relisted in a few days.

[Sevo]

Well, both bidders have around 40% bid activity with this one seller. Gazing into my crystal ball I see the contents of a package vanish in transport, and lots of activity in the paypal fraud department...

... or some camera dealer booking $40,000 in stolen camera sales as "rare lens sold via ebay cash on pick-up".

Sevo

[Louis Pacilla]

You missed the bidders being forced to listen to Florence Foster Jenkins 12 hours each day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

N.P.R's Wait Wait,,, Don't Tell Me Just did a piece on her on. What a Beautiful Voice. Like the sounds of a suffering wilder beast in my hallucinogenic dreams

[kev curry]

You missed the bidders being forced to listen to Florence Foster Jenkins 12 hours each day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

Interesting...she looks like a brickies labourer I used to know!

Talkin' about brickies labourers.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaO3Z4G4Jso

[Steven Barall]

That can not be right. My BS detector is off the scale on this one.

[John Schneider]

Kirk,

While your self-censorship is admirable, I thought your post to be hilarious and not far off the mark.

[Stephane]

It was sold 3 weeks ago for just less than 1200 by the same seller.
Same lens?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...t_14449wt_1280