Elvis' Backwash Nets $455 on EBay

**gblowfish** · 12-28-2004, 04:37 PM

EBay is totally out of control. What kind of mouth breathing moron would pay $455 for three tablespoons of tap water??? Damn...I'm in the wrong business! Story is here:
Purported Elvis Water Brings $455 Bid on EBay

Entertainment - Reuters

MIAMI (Reuters) - Wade Jones of North Carolina says he snared a plastic cup from which Elvis Presley drank at a concert in 1977 and kept the cup and the water for 27 years before selling the remaining few tablespoons of water on eBay.

The winning bid for the water was $455. He says he won't sell the cup.

A 40-year-old resident of Belmont, North Carolina, Jones said he was 13 when he attended a Presley concert at the Charlotte Coliseum in February, 1977, six months before the death of the rock 'n roll icon.

After the concert, Jones went to the stage looking for a souvenir. A policeman gave him the plastic foam cup, from which he had seen Elvis drinking earlier, he said.

Jones said he kept the cup and water in his freezer until 1985, when he transferred the water to a vial and sealed it. Over the years, he said, he acquired a photograph of Elvis holding the cup at that concert as authentication for his claim.

"I promise this thing is 100 percent legitimate," Jones said.

It was the $28,000 eBay sale of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich in which some people saw the image of the Virgin Mary that persuaded him to auction off his Elvis water.

"I've been selling on eBay since 2000. People said you ought to sell that Elvis cup," Jones said. "When I heard the recent news ... about the grilled cheese sandwich, I kind of thought about it.

"I didn't get $28,000, it's true," he said of the winning bid on the 3-4 tablespoons of water. "But I'm happy."

Jones said he got a lot of e-mails asking how much he wanted for the cup. He's not going to sell but is offering to allow the highest bidder to "exhibit" it for a short time. Minimum bid is $300.

"It's something I've had since I was 13 and I'm just not going to get rid of it," he said.

Chan93lx50 · 12-28-2004, 05:02 PM

Taco John

**Bowser** · 12-28-2004, 05:24 PM

Must be good livin' these days in North Carolina.

12-28-2004, 06:26 PM

Damn. Why didn't anybody post this while the auction was still active?!?! I could have deferred my car payment for a couple months....

badgirl · 12-28-2004, 06:34 PM

When I worked at a hospital in Memphis I changed Elvis cather bag, and kept it, who wants to start the bidding?

ChiefsFire · 12-28-2004, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by badgirl

When I worked at a hospital in Memphis I changed Elvis cather bag, and kept it, who wants to start the bidding?

$6 and a jerry lewis hemrroid

badgirl · 12-28-2004, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsFire

$6 and a jerry lewis hemrroid

Do I hear another bid? pass on the 6 bucks but the hemmorid

Jenson71 · 12-28-2004, 06:39 PM

Someone paid $28,000 for that ****ing grilled cheese? I'm sick. I'm beyond...anything. Who the **** is so stupid that they somehow have $28,000 lying around? You'd figure a person with a lot of money has some sense, but...what the hell....

badgirl · 12-28-2004, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Jenson71

Someone paid $28,000 for that ****ing grilled cheese? I'm sick. I'm beyond...anything. Who the **** is so stupid that they somehow have $28,000 lying around? You'd figure a person with a lot of money has some sense, but...what the hell....

I agree, go feed the homeless or something for God sake, people like this make me sick

ArrowheadHawk · 12-28-2004, 06:38 PM

Euck Felvis

elvomito · 12-28-2004, 06:52 PM

what, you didn't hear about the "haunted cane" that sold for $65k? a little kid thought his dead grandpa was alive in his cane. sheesh

teedubya · 12-28-2004, 07:53 PM

Elvis was a piece of shit... everyone says Elvis is the "King of RocknRoll" I say BULLSHIT! He didnt write ANY of his hit songs... he was a 50s version of a manufactured superstar, ie Britney...etc.

The real King of Rock, was either Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry.... I lean towards Chuck.

Fugg Elvis/

stevieray · 12-28-2004, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Ali Chi3fs

Elvis was a piece of shit... everyone says Elvis is the "King of RocknRoll" I say BULLSHIT! He didnt write ANY of his hit songs... he was a 50s version of a manufactured superstar, ie Britney...etc.

The real King of Rock, was either Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry.... I lean towards Chuck.

Fugg Elvis/

tommykat · 12-28-2004, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by stevieray

Go First Down Elvis.............

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