Cell phone business
A few days after B.Bush’s cell phone has been stolen, a smart one put an offer on Mercado Libre, the equivalent of Ebay in South America. I found this too be too funny and somehow stupid that I wanted to share it with you. Of course, the offer has been taken down- no valid offers had been placed- but meanwhile it has been posted, many people added numerous comments but noone was willing to buy it. Starting price was of $1000 Argentinian pesos, and the ad claimed you could call and talk to G. Bush and finally get to tell him all you wanted about Irak, petrol, economy and much more. Moreover, the offer promised phone numbers of Michael Jackson, George W Bush, Paris Hilton and Madonna. The ad just made me laugh 
December 10th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
[…] In her other blog, Buenos Aires Weekly, Karine was one of the first to break the exciting news that Barbara Bush’s cell phone, stolen recently in San Telmo, had supposedly been put up for sale on Mercado Libre (the Latin American eBay), with a bargain starting price of AR$1000. Not bad when you consider it contained the phone numbers of both George W Bush AND Michael Jackson, offering the once in a lifetime opportunity to conduct a ’stupidest person on the face of the planet’ contest, in real time. Unfortunately, the offer was soon removed, surely because the current owner realized that was a chance that couldn’t be passed up. […]