The Mysterious eBay Note In My Cube (by Jeremy Zawodny)

I came back to my desk after 3.5 hours of meetings and presentations to find the following on a post-it note stuck to my laptop:

Dear Jeremy,

We came by the do a leveraged buyout of your underpants. But you weren't here. Sorry! Talk soon.

Your Friends @ eBay

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that I was not around.

The fun part is seeing if one of my eBay friends takes responsibility of this as a result of reading it on my blog. If not, I'll just have to ping everyone I know at eBay. :-)

Posted by jzawodn at January 28, 2005 05:00 PM

Reader Comments

# Aaron Brazell said:

Fascinating. I wonder how much (or shall I say how little) those things would go for on ebay. ;)

on January 28, 2005 05:11 PM

# Dave said:

eBay??? What about your leak?!?

on January 28, 2005 06:14 PM

# jcartledge said:

I'm sure if Jeremy's underpants leak that will come out in due diligence.

on January 28, 2005 06:21 PM

# david said:

If they want your underpants now, what else will they want?

Evil. :)

on January 28, 2005 08:04 PM

# Ross M Karchner said:

I thought eBay was already profitable?

Are they returning to the canonical dot com business plan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes

on January 29, 2005 06:24 AM

# Jeffrey McManus said:

I am here to say that it isn't every day that a man receives an offer for a leveraged buyout of his underpants, so I hope you're appreciating this.

on January 31, 2005 10:50 AM

# krotti said:

And most importantly - you're in meetings and presos for over 3 hours and you leave your laptop in your cube??

on May 7, 2005 07:10 AM

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