Of course, my grand-daughter is absolutely crazy about this Elmo guy and so when I saw laughing Elmo I laughed out loud myself and knew she would be very pleased with her hilarious, floor pounding Elmo gift. I began my search for Elmo at the local Target store. I missed that first shipment and I’m not sure, to be honest, if they ever reached the shelves. Next I went to Walmart to find Elmo TMX. Same deal. I brought my search online for this giggling, laughing Elmo doll and found sky-high prices over $100 at some stores. This was discouraging, until I found eBay and my hope of Elmo TMX ownership was restored.

At eBay I found quite a few sellers who have Elmo TMX ready to ship at reasonable prices. I’ve ordered from eBay many times before and this is the type of item that I knew I could get a good deal on by bidding.

I simply found an auction that would be ending in a few days so that I could get into the action at a low bid price. This enables me to receive email updates about other bidding activity for that item. And I can then take a strategy with a max bid or I can then quickly sniper the auction in the last minute of action.

Snipering is a really good strategy: this is when you bid in the last moment of action to supplant other bidders, but make sure that you are registered at eBay first, so that you could make bids quickly. Registering takes a few minutes and ... read moreyou won’t have time if you want to register while snippering in the last minute of the auction. Bid and you too will be laughing with your Elmo TMX soon enough.

“T.M.X.” Elmo comes with three interactive tickle spots on his chin, tummy or toe.  When tickled once on any of the spots, Elmo starts to laugh and slap his leg twice. Then he slouches into a sitting position and rocks himself back up to standing while laughing.  When tickled a second time, he repeats the pattern even more, then sits down again and falls backwards onto his back and starts kicking his feet while laughing even harder. He then stands back up and asks to be tickled again.  And on the third tickle he absolutely lets loose going through the first two patterns and then rolling over onto his tummy where he starts hitting the floor with his hand in gales of laughter, then rolling onto his back, standing up again, and ending with a deep sigh.

Make sure to check the language when ordering through eBay. Some sellers offer the Spanish speaking Elmo!