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Strangest
Things Ever Sold On eBay:
Top 10 Auctions
by Jeff Cohen
eBay can be a very odd place, given that you
can sell almost anything you want. Here are the auctions we’ve
picked as being the strangest ever.
#10
- Girlfriends: Some girls auctioned their services as
‘imaginary girlfriends’, who would send the winning bidder
pictures of themselves and loving letters, which they could
use to pretend they had a girlfriend.
#9
- Wedding dress: Nothing strange about selling a wedding dress, you might
think – but this was the guy’s ex-wife’s wedding
dress. And he modelled it, as well as writing a long screed
about his ex-wife in the description. It sold for £3,850.
#8
- TV part: Producers on the TV show Ally McBeal once used
eBay to auction off a walk-on part on the show.
#7
- Kidney: One man tried to sell his kidney on eBay – after
all, you only need one, right? Unfortunately it’s illegal to
buy or sell human organs. Good thinking, though.
#6
- Toenail clippings: A girl once sold her toenail clippings
on eBay, one clipping from each toe. She got a $1 for the set
– a low price for the years of joy they no doubt provided to
the buyer.
#5
- Britney’s gum: Someone picked up Britney Spears’ chewed
gum at a London hotel and decided it’d be a great thing to
sell on eBay. Oddly enough, they were right – they got $263
for it. A Britney fan probably has it framed in their house.
#4
- Ghost: Yes, a ghost. In a jar. Well, why not? The ghost
was, apparently, ‘terrorising’ the man who owned it, and so
he decided to capture it and sell it on eBay to someone who
might be able to give it a better home.
#3
- Virgin Mary sandwich: A seller offered a grilled cheese
sandwich upon which the Virgin Mary had appeared to her – and
the strange thing is, she genuinely seemed to believe it. This
item, unbelievably, sold for $28,000. Some people just have
too much money to waste, don’t they?
#2
- Virginity: An 18-year-old British girl sold her virginity
on eBay – but it was bought by a businessman who kindly agreed
to give her the money without actually taking the ‘service’.
And
at #1 - Fighter jet: A state brokerage in Virginia sold
a U.S. Navy F/A-18A Hornet jet fighter on eBay for just over
a million dollars. It was, unfortunately, in pieces and so
unusable, but they offered to put it back together and make
it ready to fly for the low, low price of just another $9 million.
Of course, when you’re buying expensive items – not quite
as expensive as the fighter jet, but you know what I mean –
you will want to get them for the very best price that you
can manage. If you can master the dark art of eBay ‘sniping’,
then you can jump in at the last minute and get items for only
a few cents more than the bidder who was going to win.
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