Anonymous Bidder Buys Charles Stanley’s Items on Ebay, Only to Return Them to the Family
Last week, Charles Stanley’s grandson announced that following the passing of the famous preacher, he rooted through his office and desk had acquired some personal memorabilia that he was auctioning off to pay the bills. These included an engraved pocket watch, which ultimately sold for $2,375.00 and a signed picture which sold for $3,650.0.
At the time, Matt Brodersen acknowledged that some people were giving him grief for his actions, including his family, but offered up a non-apology apology.
It turns out, the anonymous buyer of the items purchased them so that he could guarantee they’d be returned to the Stanley family. Brodersen explained:
“The guy that won the pocket watch….bought the items, won the auction, and is sending them back to my family. Because apparently when he was younger and his grandfather died … his brother and his cousin … went and grabbed his grandpa’s things and they went and auctioned it off right away and he did not like it.
And so, I talked to him on the phone for like 30 minutes today, and we had a great conversation and it was a little jaw-dropping. he was very nice to me, he was basically saying , ‘I wish my family had not auctioned off my grandpa’s stuff. I would have liked to keep some of those things. I’m so glad I got to buy them and send them back to your family for you.
So that is when it really all sank in about how creepy or weird that was of me to do that.”
The $3,650 bid for the photograph fell through and he initially relisted the item, but then pulled it down after speaking to the anonymous buyer.
“When he told me his story, I just died inside, and I realized how selfish I was being, so I canceled the other eBay auction for the picture frame and the coin collection and I have mailed those back to my uncle. So technically, nothing has gotten sold on eBay. Everything is going back to its right property owners.”
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just ridiculous! The brat of a grandson could have cancelled those auctions with no problem just marking them “not available.” Now he gets to keep the cash. Parents of children that were born 1985 and on, YOU have done this to our culture. YOU chose to “take a village” to raise your child. That village includes the government that you turned your kids over to for 40 hours a week and then you have them on the ballfield after that each day. They turn into Millenials, snowflakes and now flurries. THANKS ALOT
Way to paint everyone with the same brush. For your information, all four of my kids were born after ’85 and all of them turned out to be wonderful, honest, hard-working adults. You should stop virtue signaling by pretending you care and scolding everyone that fits within your nebulous classifications.
God bless this individual’s actions that prompted this kid to examine himself –
He feels guilty for putting the stuff up for auction, but not guilty enough to have removed them or refuse to take the money. What a typical, self-absorbed, greedy, entitled a-hole. Hopefully, his family will toss him to the curb and never speak to him again.
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It was the conversation with the buyer that made him feel guilty. It opened his eyes to the wrongness of it all.
His human nature took over. My, how……..human of him.
Stop looking at the sin and look at the Savior who changed his heart and rejoice and be encouraged that God is in control.
Apologies Arlen! I clicked on the wrong comment to reply to….I was meaning to put this under the original poster’s scree.
why would he have bills??
Doesn’t everyone?
Everyone is all worked up over this guy selling stuff. It is stuff. Some of it was clearly meant to be sold (signed picture???). I get that it is kind of tacky to sell family heirlooms (pocket watch), but at the end of the day it is stuff and the only reason this particular stuff is being talked about is because it belonged to a celebrity (albeit disqualified) pastor.