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Thursday, April 29, 2004

The things he did for love -- of M's, beer
Models ex-wife's wedding dress on auction site eBay

By DAVID ANDRIESEN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

The man allegedly started the eBay auction "hoping to get enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer."

In the end, the anonymous seller got nationwide attention and enough money for 100 Mariners tickets (but, according to the Go 2 Guy, probably not enough to afford the beer at Safeco Field).

You might have seen the story on television -- it reached the local news and even the "Today" show -- about the local man who auctioned off his ex-wife's wedding dress and included pictures of himself, a large man with a beard and numerous tattoos, modeling the sleeveless, ivory size 12.

He scratched out his face in the photos, "not to protect the ex-wife but to protect me from my bar buddies and co-workers finding out about it. I would never live it down," according to the seller's comments on the auction.

By the time the auction closed yesterday, the Web page had been viewed nearly 6 million times. The winning bid was $3,850 for the dress originally bought, according to the man, for $1,200. Bidding surpassed $15,000 earlier in the day before bogus bids, more than 100 of which were submitted, were retracted by eBay administrators.

Among the hundreds of e-mail messages the man said he received were five wedding proposals.

"I feel like one of those mass murderers on death row," he wrote. "I never understood how the hell they got more chicks than I did. Now I know. They sold crap on eBay."

It's tough to imagine anyone would pay nearly $4,000 for a used, $1,200 dress. Neither the seller nor the winning bidder responded to e-mailed interview requests.

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