**Mystery Envelope?!**   This Auction is for one 9 1/2" X 13 7/8" Envelope What's in side the envelope is a Mystery. Some might say I'm crazy for doing this but you only live once. I'll keep this auction description very short and just state that shipping on this envelope is free worldwide but insurance is required at the rate of $1.00 per $100.00. I won't disclose the value of the contents of the envelope so the insurance will apply to the price of the winning bid for this mystery envelope and not the actual value of the contents in the envelope. So as an example if the high winning bid is $500.00 the high winning bidder will pay $500.00 and $5.00 postal insurance for a total of $505.00 US or if it is something like $4,663.00 it will be rounded down to the nearest hundred and the winning bidder will pay $46.00 US for postal insurance. This envelope will be shipped by courier (will have a tracking number) so if you are the high winning bidder and have a postal box make sure you give me an address that a courier can deliver to. DON'T email me and ask what is in the envelope, I won't say. DON'T email me after the auction and ask either, I won't say. If the high winning bidder wishes to disclose what the contents of the envelope is after they receive it then that is totally up to them. GOOD LUCK, LET THE BIDDING BEGIN........ This auction has NO RESERVE. If you bid please plan to complete the sale, All BIDS are legally binding and you will be expected to follow through with payment if you win this auction. Payment Back to Top I accept the following forms of payment:       PayPal (preferred) Money Order (U.S. Funds only (MUST be cashable in Canada)) Shipping & Handling Back to Top Shipping is FREE Worldwide. Insurance is required, rate $1.00 US per $100.00.

Boy this auction is getting bigger than I ever expected. I wish the bids where climbing just as fast as all the questions piling up. Don't get me wrong I'm having a blast and I'll try to answer all the questions as best I can, but remember I'm not going to say what's inside the Envelope, nope not even for a bribe like one radio station tride to do. You'll have to be the winning bidder at the end of this auction.

I will however help you out on a few points:

(1) It is NOT something illegal or disgusting.
(2) Yes there is something in the envelope.
(3) No I won't say what it is, what the value is or if it relates to something else.

IF this envelope sold for tens of thousands of dollars no I would not loose any sleep over it and would welcome contact after the winning bidder received the envelope, good or bad. Feedback is also welcome.

Will it go that high? Who knows... Stranger things have happened.

Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese - $28,000.00
Haunted Ghost Cane - $65,000.00
Forehead Ad - $37,000.00
Mystery Envelope - $??????

What's in it - ?

I received a question I'll answer here instead of below so it doesn't get pushed down.

Q: "Just a quick question about your update you posted. Did you mean "Boy this auction is getting bigger than I ever expected" because the bids are higher than what you thought you would get or expected? Sorry one more. Why won't you loose any sleep if it sold for tens of thousands of dollars? Is that how much it is worth?"

A: By bigger I mean popularity, (currently 333 watchers) and the amount of questions, interest etc. All I'll say to your second question is I made a decision to do this auction regardless of how little or how much I receive from it.

Stay tuned to the morning show at 99.9 KTYD in Santa Barbra, Ca

"Important Notice!"

Do to all the attention, questions, followers and a few bribes to find out what's in the Mystery Envelope I have decided to add to this listing.

So... If or when this Auction reaches $1,000.00 US I will reveal a very important clue about what's in the envelope.

Just remember your bid is legally binding and you will be expected to follow through with payment if you win this auction so DON'T jack up the bid just to find out the clue.

This Auction was featured on the morning show STAR 102.1 in Knoxville, TN. Thanks Marc and Kim I had a blast. Sorry you didn't find out what's in the Mystery Envelope. (snicker)

Mystery Envelope Clues!

Ok, let's take this auction up another notch.

I have now been completely swamped with hundreds of questions and am getting bribes from all over from concert tickets and free tires to wives, a tropical gold fish and some girls bi-sexual boyfriend, just to say what's in the envelope. Well the auction is now getting an average of 6 hits per second and currently has (hold on let me check) 1084 watchers and is poised to become the # 1 currently watched auction on ebay.

So like I said lets kick this auction up another notch, sure even before the bidding reaches $1,000.00 US. Why not...

Here are two clues to what's in the envelope.

Yes it is valuable and Yes it is something a great many people would want. What is it? Ok let's not push it too far.

Unfortunately I feel I must post the following.

All text and pictures on this ebay auction listing are copyright and protected by intellectual property rights. This ebay auction listing and it's picture may not be reproduced in any form electronically or otherwise without my expressed written permission.

For further information please refer to ebay's listing rules regarding Item Description and Picture Theft

Anyone (ie. media etc.) requiring permission please contact me at joyners@shaw.ca

By all means post your own mystery envelope auction's just DON'T copy my listing and picture to do it.

Thank-you, this auction has now become the # 1 currently watched auction on ebay from roughly 3.4 million listings and has 1274 people watching.

UPDATE:

This is Funny but unfortunate:

Last night about 3:30am 1597 people to date had marked this auction in their "My Ebay Page" making this the #1 currently most watched auction on ebay, then this morning at about 6:00 am roughly only 37 people showed having this auction marked to watch. Clearly something was wrong. I contacted ebay to enquire, well they can not say why over 1500 people in the middle of the night with-in about 2 1/2 hours all decided to stop watching this auction. YA RIGHT.... (why do people not just say they screwed up and apologize) Last time I talked to myself I'm sure I wasn't an idiot.

I myself would like to apologize for any inconvenience this has caused my watchers and visitors to this auction. I know there are hundreds of people waiting for the final outcome of this auction to see who the winning bidder will be and for how much this envelope sells for.

If you would like to mark this auction listing yet again, to watch in your "My Ebay Page" you can click the link at the top of this listing or  Click Here.

Again sorry for this inconvenience....(stay tuned for the conclusion of this auction Sunday night)

"VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE!"

Before we continue with the bidding let me clear some things up and state a few things.

First this auction in no way violates any of ebay's rules or policies, either the listing or the contents in the envelope. I enjoy being a user of ebay and follow all rules as they have posted them. It also clearly states at the very beginning of this auction listing that You are Bidding on an Envelope with contents that are a mystery (unknown). Think of it like a grab bag, charity auctions do it all the time. This IS NOT a charity auction.

I guarentee that there is something in the envelope that you are bidding on. I will not state the actual value of the contents. There is nothing wrong with someone bidding what ever they want for an item whether or not what they pay for the item in the end, is what the value of the item actually is. Either less than the item costs or higher than the item costs.

So for an example an auction house puts up for auction a rare painting, the listed value is say $100,000 but it sells for only 25,000 well someone got a great deal. But what if two people really wanted that painting and they bid it up to $1,000,000.00, Well that is exactly what an auction is all about...

PLEASE have fun with this auction and BID if you would like and as much as you would like, but understand you are bidding on an envelope with an unknown item in it. There is NO GUARANTEE that the value of the envelope and contents will be of the same dollar value of the eventual winning bid price. There are NO REFUNDS, RETURNS and the item will be shipped and insurance is required as stated above.

NOW LET'S GET BACK TO BIDDING...

Just to sweeten the pot lets quickly recap the two previous clues and give you just ONE more....

Yes it is valuable, Yes it is something a great many people would want

AND

Yes people enjoy this...

So what is it, well one lucky high winning bidder will get that chance to find out.....

Well seems I haved answered and posted to many of your questions and have reached the limit ebay allows to be posted to an auction listing. So while I will continue to try to answer as many questions as I can from all of you I am now unable to post any more to this listing.

Thanks 94.5 KSMB in Lafayette, LA

Payment Policy Update: (BIDDERS PLEASE READ)

Well I have to give you folks something new to read so here goes.

If you are the winning bidder you must contact me with-in 24hrs of the close of this auction to supply me with your shipping info. PAYMENT is required with-in five days of the close. No Exceptions.

Your envelope will be shipped same day payment is received by courier as stated previously.

"Yet Another Important Notice!"

To insure the integrity on the bidding of this auction I am now imposing for any future bids a minimum feedback rating of 20 in order to automatically bid on this auction. If you have a feedback rating lower than 20 you must now contact me to be approved to bid. If your feedback rating is above 20 feel free to bid but I reserve the right to cancel ANY bids.

I apologize for this inconvience but feel this is necessary.

Please remember it is against ebay rules to Bid with the intent to disrupt a listing and like I have stated before you are LEGALLY bound to pay the price of your winning bid should you be the high bidder at the end of this auction. This is to be paid with-in five days of the close of this auction.

Here are two comments sent to me today by a couple viewer's, thought I would share them .

  Q: Wouldnt it be cool if a talk show host were to pay the winner money to open it on their show. Then the winner wouldnt be out so much if the items inside werent worth that much and it would be a good show LOL. HEY OPRAH call the winning bidder so we can watch it opened on national tv. Or even Regis and Kelly. Soemone call this person when its over to offer them money to open it on your show.

Sounds like a Great Idea regardless of the contents value, I know there are a lot of people who would like to know exactly what is in the envelope. But what ever the winning bidder wishes to do is up to them.

  Q: Hmmm...I see you have had several offers to trade the secret of the contents for someone's wife, and so far they have had no luck. I'll do you one better. If you DON'T tell me the contents of the envelope, you get my wife (I'll need your address, I'm not waisting money on a plane ticket:)! Hope you are suitably terrified, and will now reveal the contents, or better still, that you will not and just accept the wife. Either way, I win!!!

Oh great another wife, well does she come with baggage and what guarantee would I have that you wouldn't want her back? I'm not saying I will reveal the contents of the envelope, because I won't, just curios...

Yet another one of the many comments

Q: Can you erase some of the previous questions and add new questions? The questions are almost as entertaining as the auction. Your comebacks are hysterical! My whole family is watching this and I have emailed this ebay link to about 20 or so friends, who emailed this to their friends.. and so on.. and so on... Tell ebay to let you post additional questions. They have gotten some amazing advertising out of this. Good luck to you! Paula

Nope can't erase previous questions. But welcome to the newest form of entertainment, I like to call it Reality Auctions. See what you do is you take an interesting auction, invite tens of thousands of people, answer a mountain of questions, throw in some media, a few hundred bidders, a couple updates here and there and you now have one of the most entertaining forms of activity on the internet and it is kid safe
(I've got kids, sorry it's a habit). Don't believe me, ok every one that ate dinner at the computer desk last night raise your hand. See what I mean.

Hopefully though at the conclusion of this auction the high bidder decides to say that what was in the envelope was... ya like I'm going to say. But what ever it is, the main thing is they know they are bidding on a everyday run of the mill 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 ENVELOPE which has mystery (unknown) contents that may or may not be worth the same dollar value as their winning bid. What ever the bidding ends up at is totally up to them and we have 1 day and 8 hours left of this nail biting, don't talk I'm reading excitement left.

Oh and THANKS Paula and all your family and friends and their friends for taking part in this auction, even if it was only as an addicted mystery envelope auction viewer. Appreciated...

I've gotten a few questions regarding email totals and total number of people now watching this auction. So for you that asked and any one else interested here you go...

Total Questions and Email: 4,861
Total Watchers (since roughly 6:00am yesterday): 2157
Number of Known Country's with People Following this Auction: 6
(Canada, US, UK, France, Germany and Australia)

"FINAL AUCTION UPDATE !"

We are almost down to the last 12 hours of this wild auction and because no more updates are allowed within 12 hours of the close of an auction this will be my last update.

I'm sorry for the length the listing got to but as things came up I tried to deal with them or share things with the tens of thousands of viewers to this auction. I appreciate and wish to thank every one who viewed, bid and sent there comments in. I understand that thousands now in many county's of the world are on the edge of their seats waiting to see what this auction ends at and in the near future what was in the envelope. I myself regardless of anything wish the winning bidder does disclose the contents of the envelope just so every one that has taken any sort of interest in this auction finds out what was in it, good or bad.

I feel I have let everyone know what it is they are bidding on if they choose, and explained any thing else that has come up. I urge any one that wants to bid to make sure they read all of this description so they understand shipping and the payment policy etc. and again sorry for the length.

I will also let everyone know I will post any after auction updates I find out regarding the possible disclosure of the envelopes contents to my about me page, you may want to book mark it. I will not answer emails regarding this after the auction if there is any news it will be posted there. I will not disclose the contents but let you know if, when, where etc. the winning bidder choose's to do so and only with their permission.

Well that is about it, GOOD LUCK to the bidders and thanks again to every one for being a part of this ebay auction. Stay tuned for the ending in roughly 12 hours.