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Ebay's Weirdest Items
Indeed, E-bay is today's most sought-after shopping portal in the Internet. It has created in
itself a worldwide phenomenon that people get inflicted with. The joy and the thrill of bidding
online create a certain diagrammatic representation of life's drama.
Consequently, due to its underlying nature, the success of E-bay can be well attributed to its
wide range of market reach. Hence, a lot of people are going in or out of the arena with a
number of diverse products at hand.
Because of its diversity, people all over the world resort to e-bay to sell just about anything,
from the basic necessities to computer techies, and even weird stuffs.
The most common case of weird auctions on E-bay was about virginity being on sale. There
were about a dozen of auctions that put one's virginity on the limelight. There was even one
auction that sold for $10,000,000 with 17 bidders at the most. Though, there was no clear
implication if the report was true enough.
Next, there were cases of auctioned letters from a serial killer being sold at 1500 pounds each.
Then, there was one auction about a man who is selling his "fully functioning" kidneys. The
reported bid amount was $5.7 million. There was no way to verify the truth, but reports said
that the sale did not push through.
There is much other weird stuff like one night stand with someone's wife, ghost in a jar, ghost
cane, and air guitar, which were all sold, just for the heck of getting a sale on E-bay.
But among all, the report about a 10-year old Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich that sold for
$28,000 was the most sensationalized and the weirdest stuff ever sold on E-bay. The seller
was an old woman from Miami, Florida.
According to MSNBC, (this means it's for real) E-bay had deliberately post back the auction
last November 2004 after it inadvertently pulled the auction out from the list, thinking it was just
a hoax.
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