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It's strange yet somehow homespun humor that keeps me coming back to this site. Now if reuters or yahoo's 'news of the odd' picks this up as a, "Oh, haha. Look at what them crazy ebayers are doing this time" story you'll have it made. :P -Dylan from ND

Dude, are you really selling the stone???

I mean...that's Eddie's stone! How can you even THINK of selling it?

D.A., your ice cream man

to once again quote the kinks

give the people what they want

This has to breaking an Ebay rule, it just has to...

"Humans, the human body, or any human body parts may not be listed on eBay. Examples of prohibited items include, but are not limited to: organs, bone, blood, waste, sperm, and eggs. You may not include such items as a gift, prize, or giveaway in connection with an item listed on eBay." This is the rule it might infringe on. I wonder how long you can get away with breaking it? And how many items you can break it with? Why stop at a stone?

Actually as I read this, it does not break this rule. This is a kidney stone, it is not part of the body, thats the whole problem with it... your body is trying to get rid of it.. it is foreign matter.... actually its the pearl of humans (in a weird sort of way.. hey i'm thinking jewlry

Makes me think of alanis morissette

-Jagged Little Pill

but at the other end of the spectrum

That's sort of the point. It's waste - you said so yourself - and the rule says no waste. So it oes sort of break it. Not that I care. I've been banned from Ebay twice... but even that can't stop me. They'll have to kill me to keep me away.

If your body is trying to get rid of it, wouldn't that count as waste????

Too wierd, brother and sister think alike and at the same time.

Look guys, don't ruin this for me! It may be the only chance for me to buy a real kidney stone for my museum.

D.A.

Don't worry D.A. I'm not trying to ban the thing. And is there anything else you need for your museum? You's be surprised at what I have...

OK... didnt read that waste thing... remember the pearl... its a pearl! Are pearls waste? I hardly think so...

Remember your Kidney Stone can be enlayed in 14K Gold for those special occasions...

Nothing says I love you like a Kidney Stone. (I'm not saying what it would be saying... but definitly nothing says it like a kidney stone)

Hate to burst your bubble Jerm, but technically a pearl is waste. The oyster creates a mucus around a piece of sand or other foreign object that has wedged it's way inside the oyster's mouth. Eventually the oyster (or mullusk) will spit it out because it serves no purpose to the animal. The mucus is only secreted to protect it from any damaging effects.

Yes... I know that... (I dont think you can go to the hall without hearing at least hundreds of illustrations about that... plus you know i'm a nature nut) but I'm saying humans dont view it as waste... its a pearl. I'm just saying if we can contain the stone market... and convince others its a gem... we'll be rich! Hey anything created with that much tribulation and turmoil has to be valuable right? Its not like we can go mass produce these.... original Precious Stones!

Coprolite goes for boo-coos of moo-lah and it's fossilized dino-crap!

D-A

So instead of being called a jeweler you would be known as a stoner?

Pretty much.

What's up w/ the $.45 Shipping? Are you gonna pack it in a nicely wrapped box or something?

45 cents shipping, your complaining about 45 cents shipping. Do you understand the value of one of these stones (not to mention its an eddie van halen stone)...

let me explain, lets look at what much of the precious gem/metal market is based on, platinum

there is 180 tons produced a year/with a present price of $850 dollars an ounce. This means 5.8 Million ounces are produced a year.

Now lets think Kidney Stones... It is estimated in developed countiries 3% of adults will have one. We'll assume half this in developing countries. We'll assume this a 1:4 ratio. The average life span is 77 years. When you do the math you find that Kidney stones are 4.8 times rare than an ounce of Platinum. Therefore. Based on the value of Platinum....

This Kidney stone is valued at $4188...

we are talking a major discount, at the 78 cent starting bid. See the math proves I should go into the business! (and yes these are all real calculations and numbers).

That totally unsettles my stomach. . .or maybe I didn't cook that lean cuisine enough. . .ah well.

Javann. Eating Lean Cuisine.

Now THAT unsettles my stomach.

D.A.

I have an Eddie Van Halen 1992 Vintage 5150 Head with a matching '92 Vintage 5150 4x12 Cabinet valued at over $2000. Is the stone compatible with my head and cab? do I get a discount been as an Eddie stone really should have been included with my rig anyow? What I'd really like is a Cobain stone. Yesterday being the 10th anniversary of his death I've seen the prices skyrocket... (yep, got Nirvana into another post Jon)

Hey Mel,
If you really want that stone, me and Jeremy's friend, David Eyre from Vancouver, Canada that works at Fed Ex can possibly hook you up with some free shipping and handling, so hey thats $0.78 cents you'll save.

something you have to consider here is the material make up of the stone. If you do your research you will find that the stone is primarily made up of calcium. Therefore making the stone not just hard, but brittle. so you can't cut glass with it you can't grind concrete with it and most of all you can't shape other stones to make it shine and sparkle like it's more sophisticated brother(diamond). the pearl likewise draws attention from its facinating ability to spectrumize light rays from its delicate surface. in other words jerm i'm sorry, but your waisting your time.

I would like to point out the fact Kevin (my dear bro-in-law) obviously copied his post from somewhere. I would have to point to the fact I've never heard him say or even approach a word remotely close to the complexity of spectrumize. I would then point to the fact he misspelled the word "wasting" to prove this theory. Obviously we have to take his post with a grain of salt. While true, we must attribute it to another source. And since we do not know of what sourcer it so precariously poured from, I move we strike it from the ledger, thus proving Jeremy's hopes accurate in their stance of making stones a valuable commodity.

Actually Kevin did it all by himself. I watched for the 33.28 minutes that it took him to write it and I even had to go through and spell check for him. So I missed a word, but my daughter is going to have a black eye and I couldn't catch all of his mistakes because she is very upset. I thought the word sophisticated (which he spelt right) was a big word for him also.

In a closely related, but altogether different subject: I have decided to drink nothing but milk and eat nothing but Ice Cream. I will also ingest calcium tablets and supplement my diet with calcium rich foods. In doing so I hope to become the worlds first and foremost producer of fine stones, or Kidney Gems, as I call them. With a cost of over $4,000 and ounce I hope to be stinking filthy rich by mid-summer, hopefully producing 4-5 3oz. stones a month. It might take me some time to perfect the methods of quality and shape, but with that sort of price tag I can do it.
In further related news: I just incorporated my Kidny Gem company. I call it I Got Stones. I am offering 2 Million shares of I Got Stones (soon to be on NASDAQ under the symbol PAIN) for a wonderfully low price of $98.71 a share. Better hurry folks, these wont last long...

It seems to me my dear sister wrote the post for my dear bro-in-law and is covering up for him. While always surpassing the most talented in automotive knowledge, I have never before seen this seemingly underlying side of the Kev. Kudos to you if you truly have written this surprsingly accurate and overwhelmingly direct attack on Jeremy's dreams, and shame on you if you submitted such perjurous material on the behalf of deprecating his humble wishes.

keats you are going south for that comment!
Dont get me wrong. your simply placing the gem in the wrong catagory. why not compare it to a lock of hair from a famous person. or a piece of a piston from john force's drag car when it blew up and sent shrapnal into the stands. Things like that sells and quite well.
genious Idea. wrong classification thats all.

I'll buy stock in it so you better get started.

Seth, it would be funny if you pass one when Allison goes into laber!

This is a new catagory - stone from famous people. I'm already serching for a group set. I call it "Stones From The Stones". It's stones from Mick Jagger and the crew. I guess the whol genre bleeds together. Oh, and how many shares do you need?

It's labor. L-A-B-O-R. Labor. And I'm hoping all she really has right now is a massive stone...

ah my friend... but you see there are other "precious" items which have little beauty to them... what we are dealing with is the rarity of the item... and they sharp and jagged; so no doubt it could have some useful function...
I mean just imagine the value of a Stone Letter Opener. The possibilites are useless... I mean endless. Oh and great work Seth... looks like your gonna promote a flood of stones to the market... its good for you as long as you are first... but may destroy my world market based on Kidney Stones.

I have that all figured out already Jerm. I'll be the producer (like Zales) and you can be my exclusive Stoner. This way I can charge exorbitant prices to you and you in turn can charge exorbitant prices to the public. But who cares? Everyone will want a stone and they'll pay.

or they'll pass...

hahahhaha

pass

Man, how did I miss that one.... Good one though, pass.... hehe

How in the world did I miss this??? I am so late. I was about to bid on it when I realized the real business is in Gall stones. See those are tricky cause you can't pass them. usually if a person gets them, they are removed and sometimes the gallbladder is taken with them. But not to worry I am a woman with an idea. You can take that idea and make it work! lol

mY brother said to put a bid in for a dollar. I didn't because i don't have an Ebay account. But i'd be willing to set one up if you can devevlop a pearl made out of the kidney stone....

i'd stand in line for two for matching earrings...

Ah, yes, my plan has reached it's glorious fruition. I already have an order for a pair of pearl stone earrings. Now I just hope this pain in my back is indeed a stone and not internal hemorrhaging from getting my butt kicked by my pregnant wife last night....

Oh, and who would want to wear a Gall Stone? That's sick.....