A few moments ago the Government's eBay auction for a made-up spandex outfit belonging to a the drummer of a fake band which formed part of a £2.4m campaign by the Health Safety Executive closed.
Until the closing seconds of the auction, someone, coincidentally I'm sure, by the name of "hse-rules" was leading the bidding on £2000. The user had no buying history and just so happened to register the day after I originally wrote about the bizarre use of taxpayers money, and it was then highlighted by the Times.
However, as with all eBay auctions, there is alwasy someone on a keyboard waiting and watching for the last dying seconds to bid. As a result hse-rules was pipped to the post by macmorland with a winning bid of £2050. Like hse-rules, macmorland has no bidding history but registered back in August it seems. I imagine if macmorland is a real person he'll be upset when he finds out he's been conned.
August 2003, dude. Even odder that someone should wait so long, and never bid or sell in over three years.
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