Megaphone Helmets & the astonishing power of blogs

A week ago, Richard mailed me about some funny hats he'd seen on eBay, and I wrote this post about them, which Mark at Boing Boing kindly linked to. Today, the auction finished. The pair of hats, which had failed to get a starting bid of £45 when Richard spotted them, sold for £820. That's $1,434, and the winning bidder has a feedback score of 119.

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

Got to be shitting me! I would have paid a good $200 for these, but $2,000???

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Anonymous : 2:40 am

Ya. That's too bad. I was prepared to go up to 500 bucks USD. These are sooo cute. Arrr.

# posted by

Doktor Future : 3:48 am

That is kind of absurd. I hope they're paying for the history, and not just the hats. I could vacuum form decent plastic replicas for ~$250, and perfect ones for ~$750, and they'd be more comfortable, and have built in ring modulators.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:06 am

Um....I've got an '89 Toyota that I'd like to sell. Can you help me get a couple extra thousand for it?

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:03 pm

hey, if i put a megaphone in my 98 olds intrigue, would you post it on your site and then get me an extra few grand for it. Ill even throw in a yamaha tx81z in the trunk!

i'll give ya a cut!

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:06 pm

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# posted by

Anonymous : 9:07 pm

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# posted by

Anonymous : 11:33 pm

Did anyone notice who one of the high bidders was???!!!?!?

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SaLVaToRe : 9:29 am