eBay’s Wedding Dress Guy

Remember Larry Star? He’s the tattooed dude who, in April 2004, put photos of himself decked out in his ex-wife’s wedding dress, along with some hilariously bitter copy, into an eBay ad “hoping to get enough money” from the sale of the dress “for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer.” The ad, which got a record of about 11 million hits (according to some sources, it was only 6 million, but hey, that’s still a lot of gawking), is no longer online -- eBay retires ads 30 days after the auction is complete, I think -- but you can see it here. He got $3,850 for the wedding dress, several marriage proposals (ironic, huh?), and has appeared on numerous TV talk shows. Why am I writing about this more than a year after the fact? Because, even though much of what he wrote in his auction ad wasn’t true, it’s still damn-tootin’ funny.

Fact is, wedding-dress guy's eBay pitch includes some fiction [The Seattle Times]

TAGS: Ebay, Larry Star, Wedding Dress Guy
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[ READER COMMENTS ]

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   Larry Star said:

   Thank you for the kind words.

   This is shameless plug time: I wrote a book, "Bitter, Party of One... Your Table is Ready: Relationship advice from a guy who has no business giving it." It's available on amazon and all the other online retailers, and I promise it's as funny as the original eBay ad. Thanks again.

   ~Larry Star-Wedding Dress Guy

   Posted at 01:18 PM, on August 2 2005

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