I like the fact that he's placed a reserve of presumably at least $6,000 on it--and not only has the reserve not been met, he's had 24 bids and the highest bid is only $78. There is a God.
Also, I would point out that there's a distinct problem with provenance here, provenance being what antiques and serious collectibles people call the proof, the paperwork, showing where the object came from, what its history is, who owned it before you, and how likely is it that it's authentic--when you buy a painting billed as the Mona Lisa, the provenance of who owned it last will come with it, and it better say "The Louvre" or else you'll know it's fake... Anyway, the seller offers no proof that this isn't just some packet of dog hairs from his mom's dog, wrapped up in an envelope from K-Mart with "Hillary Yeti" written on it, accompanied by a PrintArtist "Certificate of Authenticity" with a signature saying "Loren Coleman" on it.
The issue here is not whether it's yeti hair; the issue is whether whatever it is, it really came from the Hillary expedition. For the "provenance", you'd have to know where the seller got it from; he doesn't say. And then you'd have to know how reliable the person he got it from, was. What are the chances the person he got it from just stuck some dog hairs in an envelope and wrote "Hillary Expedition" on it?
Stuff like that.
