It was not Chris's idea to start this, so it stands to reason that someone else is helping him through this.
The initial idea to sell art on ebay wasn't his idea. Many people have been advising him to do exactly that for more than a decade.
But re-listing a failed auction with a buy it now price five times that of the failed price to make up for the pain and suffering of the failed auction? Nobody is helping him do that. That's pure Chris.
The wild ride will never end.
It will eventually.
Chris is the goddamned poster-child for "Work harder, not smarter"
"Work"?
Looks like the limit by that anonymous bidder has been reached. From what I am seeing, the current increment is 100.00, so the bidder who placed a bid of 8,901 dollars is the one who brought the price up to 9001 dollars (via triggering an automatic bid by the other bidder) and now someone else bid 9101 dollars but there has been no automatic bid to bring the price up to 9201 dollars, so at this time, if that anonymous ween (who apparently put somewhere between 9001 and 9100 for his maximum bid) doesn't place a higher bid,
Actually I was sort of expecting something like that to happen with the last auction: Weens setting an automatic bidding limit at $9001. I suspect the bidding frenzy drowned that particular bit of weenery out though. They seem a little less rabid fake bidding this one so we got to witness that effect.
it could go to anyone else who wants to place a serious bid on the picture.
A serious bid that's anywhere near an acceptable amount to Chris? What are the odds?
An ART GALLERY? Wow....just....WOW. Oh, my sides are in orbit.....
Stranger things have happened. Not this time around (that's obviously fake), but I can see someone in the art industry thinking Chris might be the next Darger for a few seconds before coming to their senses.
Wait wait wait. Laminated? Seriously? Is it me or is laminated what your teacher does for Mother's Day gifts you do at school? Is this is version of framed? Fucking A Chris.
That's exactly what laminating means. I can only think of one reason why Chris would go and laminate this piece: he's worried that whoever buys it might modify it to troll him and wants to protect against that. Also he's really stupid and doesn't know how to protect art.
Anyone want to suggest what the likelihood will be that Chris will make the winner pay the highest bid anyway?
Zero chance. He'll definitely try to demand it, but nobody going to actually pay that.
Laminating is not something you want to do to a collectible, whether it be a card, comic, poster, or whatever. So by laminating his drawing, he actually pretty much ruined its collectible value.
Exactly. But he probably has his reason (see above). He's also shipping it in frame, so if someone ever does buy this, they're getting a box of broken glass. Which would only matter if this was actually valuable art he's selling, so it's a good thing it isn't.
methinks $15k is the upper limit on bids.
I think the upper limit this reaches is entirely up to ebay before they inevitably take down this auction as well.