Stupidest Thing you've seen for sale on EBay

Dub13

What do you think was the strangest thing to apper on Ebay over the years....?I have to go with the "Gost in a Bottle" :eek: or the girl who sold her innocence...still not sure if this girl went through with it or not.Anybody on Boards buy it...

Creamy Goodness

there was the Virgin Mary in a crisp or something like that.

also someone tried to sell a photo of a cloud that looked like Jesus

Hugh Hefner

There's always the large amount of money that appeared soon after the N. Ireland bank robbery. Lol. Obviously a joke though, whereas the others were actually trying to attract a legitimate buyer.

Sleepy

The girl that sold her "innocence" was a lesbian so it was only really a technical virginity that she sold. She did some newspaper articles afterwards and apparently it was a pretty awful experience that had an incredibly damaging effect on her life. No sympathy mind you, if you're stupid enough to do something like that you have to expect to live with the consequences.

Fobia

The "ghost in the bottle" with Michael Jackson apparently bidding is probably the oddest. Though I saw an interview with a women putting herself up for auction (for marriage), and I felt it was pretty disturbing. She really seemed happy to sell her life away to anyone with enough money. American's eh?

Gone West

I once came across 'christina aguileras used bathwater' (very classy, BTW)
Also, Some of Justin Timberlakes half-eaten toast fetched several thousand dollars last year.

Headshot

remember the fella who threated to kill a rabbit unless he got a certain amount of money

Tar.Aldarion

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

remember the fella who threated to kill a rabbit unless he got a certain amount of money

documented hoax site.

Headshot

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

documented hoax site.

you sure
i taught it was on ebay

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/06/texas_snowball/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/ebayer_sells_nothing/

Tar.Aldarion

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

you sure
i taught it was on ebay

probably a guy copying the site for kicks,the site was not even real.if you tried to donate it wouldn't let you and gave you an error.Online buyers beware!

Sponge Bob

An Aircraft Carrier .

http://www.boingboing.net/2003/12/29/best_geek_gift_yet_d.html

Dub13

I just love this quote

"This maybe the first ever aircraft carrier available for auction at EBAY"

Redrocket

you used to be able to search for items priced anything over 1,000,000 in the advanced options, the results were strange... like islands and 400miles of fiber and the like..
cant seem to be able to get this search anymore

Gone West

Dub13 wrote:

I just love this quote

"This maybe the first ever aircraft carrier available for auction at EBAY"

A few years back, and irish fellow was selling a world war 2 submarine.
Was 50 grand, and actually worked fine. Torpedos were removed.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, he was based in galway.

Tigs

A few months ago someone was selling rocking horse sh*te, and there was another auction for a hole too.

JBoyle4eva

l;ast year, a guy was selling his sense of dignity. Probably listing that was enough to get rid of it.

OFDM

Here's a "Ball of String Holder":
http://cgi.ebay.ie/BALL-OF-STRING-HOLDER-MAUCHLINE-RYDE-PIER-ISLE-OF-WHI_W0QQitemZ7345978646QQcategoryZ79949QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Zaph

There was a full sized Star Wars X-Wing fighter up for sale a few months ago. Was sorely tempted but the shipping costs from Ohio (or whichever mis-west state it was in) were ridiculous

Gone West

Spotted this on the battlefield board:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8215394226&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1#ebayphotohosting

Gone West

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5791782530

RoadSweeper

Fart in a bottle was strange.
It sold was stranger.

Headshot

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/My-fear-of-spiders_W0QQitemZ4402869249QQcategoryZ1280QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

delly

http://cgi.ebay.ie/PATENT-FASHION-APPAREL-SKIN-SCAN-INVISIBLE-CLOTHES_W0QQitemZ7548862106QQcategoryZ50973QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Gone West

http://www.youwhores.com/oddjobs.html

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.gagreport.com/bizarrenews%20-%203-4-05%20tawnypeak.htm

a former topless dancer put her "crazy big" breasts up for auction on eBay this week, after having surgery to remove her size 69-HH implants.

Peaks won notoriety in 1998 when a man tried to sue her and her employer, the Diamond Dolls nightclub in Clearwater, Florida, after claiming he had suffered whiplash injuries at a bachelor party, when the dancer swung her enormous breasts into his face. He told the court they were "like two cement blocks."
...
her appearance on "The People's Court" in which a disgruntled customer attempted to sue her for 'assault with a deadly weapon'.

The judge, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, ordered a female bailiff to examine Peaks in private. The bailiff declared the breasts to be "soft" and to weigh about 2 pounds each. (Where do these people get these sweet jobs?). Koch ruled they were not dangerous and refused to award damages.

The judge, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, ordered a female bailiff to examine Peaks in private. The bailiff declared the breasts to be "soft" and to weigh about 2 pounds each. (Where do these people get these sweet jobs?). Koch ruled they were not dangerous and refused to award damages.

datsright1

This is one that a lot of people have probably already seen but it's still pretty funny -

http://weddingdressguy.com/original_ebay_ad/ebaylisting.html

daveg

I once saw a nuclear bunker for sale on eBay. Was something like 300,000 square feet. Actually a quick google search brings up this:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15931883&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=happy-tenth-ebay--name_page.html

5 September 2005
HAPPY TENTH EBAY
£25bn SITE THAT HAS US ALL BUYING & SELLING
IT has become the world's most popular way to window shop and is turning us into a nation of online auction addicts.

As eBay celebrates its 10th birthday, it has grown from a computer geek's hobby to a £25billion business.

With 157 million registered users worldwide there are, at any one time, three million items on sale in the UK alone and 22 million globally. The website gets 150,000 hits a minute.

Like a global car boot sale, you can put just about anything up for sale and someone will make you an offer. eBay takes a small percentage as commission.

Here's our 10 eBay Top 10s...

Priciest lots sold at auction

1. In 2003, a 340-year-old copy of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which survived the Great Fire of London in 1666, was snapped up for £5million.


2. A 12-seater Gulfstream II jet went for £3.2m in 2001.


3. A Ferrari Enzo sports car - one of only 399 built - sold for £544,000 in 2003.


4. In 2002 an 82-acre town, Bridgeville in California, was sold for £531,250.


5. A silver VW Golf once owned by Pope BenedictXVI fetched £128,000 this year.


6. A handbag once owned by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fetched £103,000.


7. A drill which helped dig the Channel Tunnel sold for £39,999.


8. Lady Penelope's Rolls-Royce from the original Thunderbirds TV show sold for £20,000.


9. A 10-year-old sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary went for £17,500.


10. A decommissioned nuclear bunker in Pickering, N Yorks, sold for £17,100 in June last year.


Celebrities who just love Ebay


1. Keira Knightley


2. Johnny Depp


3. Johnny Vaughan


4. Jemima Khan


5. Cherie Blair


6. Jonathan Ross


7. Danniella Westbrook


8. Jamie Oliver


9. Engelbert Humperdinck


10. Shaznay Lewis


Items you can't buy on site


1. KKK and Nazi memorabilia


2. Alcohol


3. Credit cards


4. Drugs


5. Fireworks


6. Human remains


7. Lottery tickets


8. Surveillance equipment


9. TV de-scramblers


10. Mailing lists


The weirdest items sold


1. A £5 note - which went for £6.99


2. GMTV girl Kate Garraway's half eaten banana fetched £1,650.


3. Chewing gum spat out by Britney Spears went for £270.


4. A half-empty bottle of hair colour once used by tragic grunge star Kurt Cobain fetched £175.


5. The 'meaning of life' was sold by a man in California for £1.72.


6. A bottle of holy water allegedly 'blessed' by rocker Ozzy Osbourne was bought for £12.50.


7. A branch of a tree that broke off during Elvis's funeral at Graceland in 1977 fetched £467.50.


8. Wayne Rooney's plaster cast after he broke his foot at Euro 2004 was sold for £2,000.


9. A 'haunted' painting in which the children allegedly come alive at night went for £543.


10. Mud from the Glastonbury Festival.


The great hoaxes


1. A grandma - offered for £1m. Accessories included a pair of dentures, three bottles of foot ointment and a rocking chair.


2. Leeds United Football Club. A mystery bidder pledged £10m.


3. Test tube allegedly containing MRSA and sold for 50p.


4. George Best's pickled liver.


5. Bread crust thrown from a Buckingham Palace window.


6. One punter tried to sell nothing for something... and failed.


7. Time machine for £14.26.


8. A wife for £1bn.


9. A pint of snow sold for £23.32. A disclaimer from the seller read: "I cannot guarantee that it will not melt in transit."


10. Millennium Dome for £10million. Seller said: "Buyer must pay for postage."


Sickest items


1. Five bones from a racoon's penis went for £2.64.


2. Nail clippings from 70s murderer Roy Morris.


3. A dead mouse in a bottle. Its reserve price of £1.50 was not met.


4. Used condoms.


5. The maximum bid for a used tampon was £1.25.


6. Pubic louse parasite.


7. Jeffrey Dahmer doll with a stomach which could be unzipped to reveal who he ate for dinner.


8. Sperm.


9. A tin of faeces created in 1961 by an Italian artist.


10. Tiles from the pool where Rolling Stone Brian Jones died.


Lots that were once the stars'


1. Three tablespoons of water from a cup Elvis sipped at a 1977 gig were sold last year for £252 by Wade Jones of North Carolina.


2. A tooth said to have been pulled from Elvis Presley's mouth failed to attract the minimum £60,000 selling price in 2003.


3. A ball from Elvis's pool table went for £937.


4. A hanging plastic fern from Graceland sold for £395.


5. Singer Justin Timberlake's half-eaten French toast sold on the website for £1,971 with his fork and syrup thrown in.


6. Former Big Brother contestant Emma Greenwood sold her pink suitcase from the show for £1,950.


7. Rocker Bryan Adams's dirty socks went for £551 to a fan .


8. Christina Aguilera's used bathwater and thong made £810.


9. Socks with Christmas trees on belonging to Sir Cliff Richard, went for £80.


10. George Michael's 1991 black Range Rover with the registration number J5 STUD sold for £11,600.


Countries with most ebayers


1. USA


2. UK


3. Germany


4. France


5. Spain


6. Canada


7. South Korea


8. India


9. Australia


10. China


Most popular sale items


1. A CD sells every 11 seconds.


2. An item of women's clothing sells every 20 seconds.


3. Men's clothes sell every 30 seconds.


4. Toy cars go every 35 seconds.


5. A mobile phone is sold every minute.


6. A laptop sells every two minutes.


7. A handbag goes every 2.5 minutes.


8. Gold jewellery is snapped up every 2.75 minutes.


9. A car goes every four minutes.


10. Football shirts go every five minutes.


Items that bosses took off the site


1. Live 8 tickets. The charity tickets were available free by lottery.


2. A soul. In 2001 American student Adam Burtle tried to sell his soul. Bidding reached $400.


3. In January 2004, student Rosie Reid, 18, tried auctioned her virginity.


4. A kidney. Peter Randall of Kent tried to sell his organ for £50,000 to pay his daughter's medical bills.


5. Girls. In 2004 a Taiwanese man offered a starting price of £3,500 for three Vietnamese teenagers.


6. Debris from the doomed shuttle Columbia.


7. Videos of bare knuckle fights in Ireland.


8. Oxford University's Brasenose College. Bids on student David Green's prank reached £10m.


9. Debris from the World Trade Center appeared within an hour of 9/11.


10. Bids for footballer Kieron Dyer reached £10m after a Newcastle fan tried to sell him.

Dub13

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/10/21/story226510.html

Controversial pipeline 'for sale' on eBay
21/10/2005 - 10:50:13

The battle to stop energy giant Shell building a controversial gas pipeline on the Mayo coast took a bizarre new twist today with a section of the pipe posted for sale on auction website eBay.

The ad offers 3km (1.8 miles) of large, slightly rusty, welded steel pipe to the highest bidder, with another 6km (3.7 miles) if anyone wants it. One buyer has offered €1.50.

The seller claims the pipe is intended to carry raw, odourless, untreated gas from beneath the Atlantic Ocean to a residential area on Ireland’s beautiful and historic north west coast.

Listed as an Experimental Gas Pipeline, bidders have another nine and a half days to snap up the bargain.



The advert states: “The people of Ireland have reacted a bit preciously to the idea of a few of them being blown up while Shell make a lot of money taking their natural resources, heaven knows why.

“We cannot deliver the pipeline due to our trucks not being very good on these country roads, maybe someone could pick it up by helicopter -and us too.”

Five men spent 94 days in jail during the summer over their protests against the pipeline. A review of the entire project is under way.

SpAcEd OuT

whats the stupidest thing you have seen someone on ebay selling post em up here!

I just came across this one http://cgi.ebay.com/Miracle-Golf-Ball-In-Baby-Food-Jar_W0QQitemZ5634829888QQcategoryZ1469QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

not the stupidest ive seen but the most recent!

Cutie18Ireland

neopets accounts!! its an online game with pets... and selling an account just freezes it so kinda pointless!

pp_me129

Shell gas pipeline in mayo that was funny

Umiq88

empty packet of fags and a crushed fanta can

So Glad

I remember seeing many incidents of people buying the actual boxes of computer systems like PSP's and Xbox's thinking they were the real thing. The guy would write on the bid site "Xbox BOX for sale" and everyone thought it was a typo. Some guy paid €300 for it and got a box in the post! Totally legal!!!

Ag marbh

So Glad wrote:

I remember seeing many incidents of people buying the actual boxes of computer systems like PSP's and Xbox's thinking they were the real thing. The guy would write on the bid site "Xbox BOX for sale" and everyone thought it was a typo. Some guy paid €300 for it and got a box in the post! Totally legal!!!

thats brilliant

Wertz

Those f*cking links that the seller claims you can use to buy hot, must-have consumer electronics items for 10% of their retail cost.
Otherwise known as pyramid schemes..

Cormic

Did I not hear of some girl selling her virginity at some point?

Franky Boy

Cormic wrote:

Did I not hear of some girl selling her virginity at some point?

Now that's brilliant.

scojones

George Best's liver. Well it claimed to be it anyway, had the pics of it all warn away and destroyed with holes. Didn't last long - you can't sell human body parts on ebay so it was shut down.

scojones

I've hard rumours of someone selling an air guitar on there too :rolleyes:

Sofaspud

http://www.cockeyed.com/ebay/flatscreen/flatscreen_ebay.html
http://www.cockeyed.com/ebay/flatscreen/flatscreen_feedback.html

This lad sells a "flat screen" for $105

-spud

DC5_ITR

check this out - a "General Lee" inspired Renault 19. scroll down to see the pictures and check out the NCT report. for anyone remotely interested in cars etc, this is hilarious. if you're not interested in cars, then u might think this guy is serious and that in itself is even funnier

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4590117452

aphex™

How about this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5636590455 GBP £142.

The Item you are bidding on is an ebook on POLICE AND UK GOVERNMENT AUCTIONS

:v:

Capt'n Midnight

DC5_ITR wrote:

check this out - a "General Lee" inspired Renault 19. scroll down to see the pictures and check out the NCT report. for anyone remotely interested in cars etc, this is hilarious. if you're not interested in cars, then u might think this guy is serious and that in itself is even funnier

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4590117452

ROFL