Address:
USA - New York
11 E 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
Phone: +1 212.364.1523
Fax: +1 212.364.0941
By
day, he’s a mild-mannered school teacher. But when the sun goes
down, Paul Meadors morphs into his alter ego, the most wild and crazy
correspondent any eBayer ever had—asking sellers bizarre and ludicrous
questions about their auctions.
Hilarious auctions, crazy e-mails, and bongos for Grandma, LETTERS TO
EBAY has it all. A brilliant introduction to the bizarre world of eBay,
this hilarious collection of letters is a delightfully modern take on
classic letter-writing prank books such as The Lazlo Letters and Letters
from a Nut. He explores the millions of strange and wonderful items up
for auction on eBay, and catches sellers out with his outlandish and peculiar
letters regarding their items. The serious and often humorous replies
he receives prove that even in today's dot com society, people will go
out of their way to help someone, no matter how odd the request!
For example, when a set of bongo drums up for auction, he asks if he can
strap them on his grandmother’s back, so she can play on the street
and earn rent money. The response: “…this could be done. Put
the conga stands around her neck…duct tape one to her back and one
to her front…it would be easier with a carrying device but could
be done without…”. With hilarious results, he proves that
even in today’s impersonal digital world, the spirit of human salesmanship
lives on.
In another example, one auction item reads “Trumpet made in USA
– used.” He writes: "Dear Sir, Since childhood I have
had the uncanny ability to blow very fast air through my nose. It may
sound crazy but do you think I could play your trumpet through my nose?
I believe I could generate a better tone that way. Would the mouthpiece
fit around my left nostril?” His reply is “Dear Letters to
Ebay, Well! In order to answer, I need to know the size of your left nostril.
I will then compare your nose size to my brother's and ask him to blow
..."
“Of all the prank-letter books I’ve
read, “Letters to eBay” was certainly the most recent!
But more importantly, it is a hysterical one-man assault on what just
might be one of the four or five largest auction sites on the Interwebs.
Between taking sips of chilled milk and having said milk thunder from
my nostrils, Farkas’ book made me laugh from cover to cover!”
Paul Rosa author of The Idiot Letters
Event Listings
-Tuesday September 18 at 7:00 at Borders in Fresno,
CA
-Wednesday September 19 at 7:00 at Borders in Visalia,
CA
-Saturday September 22 at 3:00 at Borders in San
Luis Obispo, CA
-Saturday September 29 at 1:00 at Barnes and Noble
in Citrus Heights, CA
