Tell us your Treasure Hunting story

[alexiab@ebay.com]

Treasure Hunting fever has struck the nation! Well, nearly 😉

Do you have a story you would like to share about your Treasure Hunting?

We are putting together some snippets for our main treasure hunting page here: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/treasurehunt/ and would love to hear from you!

This thread will need to keep on topic, so if you want to chat with other hunters, please use the rest of the forum, your posts will be removed if they are off topic.

Thanks!

Alexia

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http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jsp?forum=2000&thread=200117527&start=-33&msRange=40

[lousy2uk]

Would you believe I search all the values of PI right back to 10 decimal places, but done it before the clue came out. Sniffle sniffle.

So close, so far.

[jayne6385]

how do you know when you've found the right one? does it tell you when you click in it?

[cardzbymarie]

Congratulations eBay! There's not much which really grabs me but this competition has me completely hooked! Fabulous prizes, highly addictive 'treasure' seeking and a great sense of community spirit.

I've been up since 3am this morning (woke up long-suffering hubby) as I was itching to get a head start. Somehow I knew it would be mini iPods. I've wanted a pink one for sooo long (no pun intended) but alas it seems it wasn't to be.

But I will be back,

Marie 🙂

[kavukliam]

well luckily for me i've had the week off work. and now it seems like i won't be going back, unless i win something over the weekend. i joined in on day 3 and started searching for the partridge clue. the next day when i found it what it was i realised how far off i was, and that the serahc had finished about 5hrs before i started searching, typical.

well once again day two i was well off, maybe im too young for this, what the hell is crackerjack, never heard of it. day three started at midnight, ringing all my mates for help, and just randomly asking people on yahoo games. i stayed up until about 3 before retiring to bed. i woke up the next day at 10 to rejoin the hunt.

ipods were coming outta my ears, i needed to find them. the clue at the time being along the lines of "a liquid used with an ingredient". well i admit i got help, and went along the lines of brandy and cream. i searched google for any songs relating to those. well low and behold there was a band called cream (told you i was young). so i went searching for things belonging to them through ebay, and then i came acroos eric clapton, their lead singer. i opened a few listing but gave up, since i had been at it over an hour.

took a break and started afresh. then at 1 o'clock i learn that someone has won an ipod through a eric clapton search link. and the item was listed at 11.15, i was looking at eric clapton listing at 11.20. so many questions running through my head "why didn't i just look more?" was the main one. well congrats to the guy who did look more carefully, but at least now i know that i can crack these clues, and do have a chance of winning. that porsche is gonna b mine.

what can i say, i addicted to ebay all over again.

[greenbottles99]

Likewise, was searching for pi at 3.141 without any luck.

When I heard the ingredient "Brown Sugar", was convinced they'd use:
Brown Sugar > Rolling Stones > Mick Jagger > Jade Jagger > Jade jewelry

But no - wrong again.

Was mistaken about Sweetie Pie (Tweety Pie) and Sylvester - thought of Sly Stalone but thought there must be 1000's of Stalone items for sale.

And the
American Pie movie > Alyson Hannigan > Also in Buffy
led to massive Slayer listings.

Mince Pie -> I think I'm gonna die.

[kingoftheringz]

here is a funny historical bit which relates to the PIE puzzle, I came across this while I'm searching in Google 🙂

"Cromwell was convinced that pies were symbols of sexual peversion. This was picked up centuries later by Freud in his infamous 'pies and pussy' essay. Cromwell asserted that the makeup of a pie, and the process of eating it - of breaking the crust to devour the filling - was akin to 'penetrating an infected orafice'."

So imagine that you ebay guys would come across this, what kind of clue would you post???

[evecooool]

work from home- but not this week- and what about next week and the week after- serious cashflow problems looming - any sugar daddies listed on ebay ????? bought insta snow (?) and two get rich schemes - no food in the house and cigarettes costing a fortune delivered by cab- serious kidney/liver failure anticipated due to nurofen intake and think i`ve contracted conjunctivitus ???? look like a bag lady and think i`m beginning to smell like one - nice smooth bits getting very hairy but boyfriend sacked me ( what does he mean attention ???!)
so that`s ok - just wish i knew what an ipod is - daughter informed me at 345 this morning that i was not trying to win a mini car - why am i doing this ????????

[musemuser]

Started searching for iPods at 10am

Taken into care 10pm!!!

[msbling2004]

I have gone wireless for this, the laptop follows me to every corner of the house....

husband has the computer down stairs going as well.

My kids have said if i dare touch it on christmas day, the will put me on the roof, and hang lights off me.

Charming, all I want to do is WIN WIN WIN.........lol

[tubbs1971]

upon reading the forum and searching for salt water /ties/lies and spies i heard the familiar sound of okey dokey pig in a pokey .....an email!!!! a quick look reveals i have a buyer for an antique looking ribboned necklace ...... who cares!!!! go to the shops,i dont have time to send it!!!!

[joshuaharper]

SORRY GUYS - I really don't get this...

I understand the idea of lateral thinking BUT where are all the clues?

It said 23 clues gone and one more to go ??

What on earth were the first 23?

Do I have to wait for each clue on the hour every hour?

When I find the 'phoney/winning' auction will I have to bid on it? or is it just a case of reading the description?

I've read what I can find on here but that doesn;t seem much - so if anyone can help please let me know.

Thanks
Josh

[karrakex]

Thank you....

Becasue of your treasure-hunt i have:-
1) Turned up to my job in trainers
2)several times elbowed the people im supposed to be looking after
3) Actually turned up to work late, because i spent so much time searching for the answers i lost track of time

I'm just lucky my boss was hooked too!

[jonnyhotrocks]

WELL THEN, HAVE I WON?

[2002united2002]

Ok, I admit it, I'm now addicted!!!!!!!!!!

Conversation with fiance each night goes something like this:

Fiance: Are you finished with the computer yet?

ME: Nooooo, do I look like I'm finished (fingers bashing keys looking for necklace/car/i-pod)

F: But I want to check my emails

M: Tough, you'll just have to wait. I'm sure that this clue will lead me there, no hang on, it's not that so it must be this, hang on one min while I check the forums ... no, see, no one has found it yet, I might still win this

F: Look love, you've spend the last few days glued to e-bay. You not sold anything, bought anything, you've not even looked for those concert tickets I want

M: Concert tickets??? Concert tickets??? The concert is not till summer next year, what's the rush. This is really really important and I MUST find this prize.

After more hours searching...........

F: Are you coming to bed now?

M: Nooooo, they'll put another clue up in a minute, it changes at midnight. Oohhh look, a camcorder, we always said we wanted a camcorder didnt we babe?

F: Snore........ snore ........

M: Goodnight love

This Morning...

F: What time did you go to bed last night?

M: Oh, just after you, got the clue went to bed (Lie, lie, lie, I didnt get to bed till 4am and I STILL haven't won a carrot)

F: I'm off to work now, What you doing today then?

M: Xmas shopping, cleaning, the usual.

Fiance exits house, I fly upstairs like speedy gonzales and check out 8pm clue....

NOW WHERE IS THAT DAMN CAMCORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ruffone0_4]

i am ment to go shopping today as i am working next weekend and my wife isn't as mad as me but keeps popping into the room to shout out what she thinks are answers and i am half way through a listing and have to look at her idea so she don't moan about me spending all day on the computer i just wish i knew what a winning listing looks like . GREAT FUN happy hunting to all

[Anonymous]

A lot of people cannot see the clues, I've tried turning everything on Norton off, still no clues, why the secrecy?? seems to be only open to a few people and thats unfair to normal E-bay users such as myself, I've been using ebay for two and a half years, they must have made a fortune from me, then I get excluded from the competition!!!!!!!!!!

[69athome]

this will make you laugh it does me thinking back. while reading thro the strings i happened on what i thought was a new criptic clue so i write it down and text it to the whole family and mates. it said "there will be a few who can todays listing, perhaps even fewer than five or six, they will be very lucky indeed and it will be easy to see who they are" clue was cracker. what did we all do? yes ignored the clue CRACKER AND WORKED ON THE ABOVE. lol we had 3 pc's going and worked along the lines of... a few could be two... which is less than five or six.... lucky number 7 or bad luck 13 .... see who they are 2 eyes so we had 2567132 wow we thought got a listing number. no it didnt work so back we all go texting each other all over again round and round in circles till one of the kids says but the clue is cracker so why not try that and we do the lot, got as far as crackerjack checked back to see if it was right line and found we was getting there but that it had gone. a whole day waisted about 20 involed 3 pc's and nothing. let this be a lesson 2 many brains spoil the thinking. lol

[tiggertastic1972]

I've got my family and neighbours involved now...


firstly - my sister is at work in the BMI call centre in Glasgow - they're all searching! I'm getting texts and phonecalls to let us know what they've looked up, or thought about.

Neighbours - giving them the clues in the morning, and just had my neighbours wee one run over to say "my mum said have you tried charles dickens?"

Yesterday, in work, i had 4 consultant plastic surgeons thinking laterally whilst they were operating - They know I'm an ebay addict, and had seen the hunt was on - even they're trying to help!

I'm not able to see the hints, so I'm popping back and forward to the discussion boards to see if they're posted here. This is great fun, and i'm getting the right answers, but just not looking for them at the right times... Good luck everybody! :-x Trace x

[billygroat_34]

My God We just found one!!!

Listing was - Tiny Tim action figure with spring crutch

It had BIN price of 2.00!!

Won 3 minutes previously!!

Listing No 5942467424

Poo!