Recent Ebay News

A few unusual eBay
sale items….


* In June 2005, the wife of Tim Shaw, a British radio DJ on Kerrang! 105.2, sold Tim’s Lotus Esprit sports car with a Buy It Now price of 50 pence after she heard him flirting with model Jodie Marsh on air. The car was sold within 5 minutes, and it was requested that the buyer pick it up the same day.

* In May 2005, a Volkswagen Golf that had previously been registered to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (who had been elected Pope Benedict XVI) was sold on eBay’s German site for €188,938.88. The winning bid was made by the GoldenPalace.com online casino, known for their outrageous eBay purchases.

* A seaworthy 16,000 ton aircraft carrier, formerly the British HMS Vengeance, was listed early in 2004. The auction was removed when eBay determined that the vessel qualified as ordnance, even though all weapons systems had been removed.

* In September 2004, the owner of MagicGoat.com sold the contents of his trash can to a middle school language arts teacher, who intended to have her students write essays about the trash before it was cleared away by a well-meaning janitor.

* Water that was said to have been left in a cup Elvis Presley once drank from was sold for $455. The few tablespoons came from a plastic cup Presley sipped at a concert in North Carolina in 1977.

* A Coventry University student got £1.20 for a single cornflake.

* A man from Brisbane, Australia attempted to sell New Zealand at a starting price of $.01AUD. The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction.

* One of the tunnel boring machines involved in the construction of the Channel Tunnel was auctioned on eBay in 2004.

* A group of four men from Australia auctioned themselves to spend the weekend with the promise of “beers, snags, good conversation and a hell of a lot of laughs” for AU$1,300

* Disney sold a retired Monorail Red (Mark IV Monorail) for $20,000

* The German Language Association sold the German language to call attention for the growing influence of Pidgin English in modern German.

* In late November 2005, the original Hollywood Sign was sold on eBay for $450,400.

* In February 2007, after Britney Spears shaved all of her hair off in a Los Angeles salon, it was listed on eBay for $1million USD before it was taken down after some considerable controversy.

* Bridgeville, California was the first city to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale 3 times since.

* Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramírez attempted to sell his neighbour’s JENN-AIR Gas Grill on eBay. The auction started at $3,000 and the price escalated to an astounding $99,999,999, the maximum amount allowed by eBay. The auction was later closed by eBay
because of the promise of an autographed baseball going to the winner as well as the grill; it is a violation of eBay policy to include items other than those advertised.

* In April 2004, American entrepreneur Matt Rouse sold the right to choose a new middle name for him. After receiving an $8,000 “Buy It Now” bid, the Utah courts refused to allow the name change. He currently still has his original middle name “Jean”.

So what do
you have for sell?

or would like
to buy…