Greenie for Miss. Fontayne's first post to go with the other three.
I'm always slightly uncomfortable when people take the pee out of other's handcrafting, however bad it might be.
At the end of the day, people here took the pee and sent ludicrous messages to a seller who was totally unaware that they were being taken the mickey out of and had no way of knowing, like most non-boaters, whether what they were selling was desirable or valuable or not. Frankly some of the shite that sells as art these days for millions of pounds is enough to make anyone doubt when tat is tat... Ebay is full of people's hand crafts that are often of a truly appalling quality, but art, and beauty, are subjective and in the eye of the beholder.
I'm glad you got a good price for it, and I think you deserved to after fielding the mickey taking that went on here.
If people think it's a joke piece (and to be fair, I also thought it was pretty funny, but I wouldn't have started sending you piss taking ebay messages or posting back here about how far you could be pushed) then no matter; it bumped the value of what you were selling and so everyone is happy, innit.
Anyone who thinks that your initial post here was in bad spirits or that you deserve to have bids retracted due to your 'attitude' should really look at their own actions and attitude and how they conducted themselves over the item too.
It's Ebay; it's a free market. People can take the piss if they want to, but they shouldn't be surprised when they get called out on their actions as a result of it!