In 2018, Matt Shoukry of St. Louis was diagnosed with cancer. Working a typical job became impossible, but he still needed to pay the bills.
With a lot of free time on his hands (and lots of time spent stuck on the couch, recovering), Matt decided to sell some items on eBay to make ends meet.
It was a low-stress way to earn cash that required no real physical activity.
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One of the items Matt put up for sale was his old VCR. He figured it was a pretty outdated piece of technology, and he had no real use for it anymore.
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Matt sold the VCR for $40 to an 86-year-old man from Phoenix. This particular buyer had never purchased anything off eBay before.
Matt expected to mail the VCR to his buyer, then receive the usual eBay review and rating in return. But days after the transaction was finalized, he pulled an intriguing letter from his stack of mail. He took one look at the typed message and shouted for his girlfriend to join him; he knew she had to see this.
Moments later, Matt and his girlfriend were both crying.
One man's trash, after all …
