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On another thread I began thinking of what useless / meaningless /pointless etc etc.. stuff you could buy on ebay

Please provide any link containing proof of any pathetic sales that only an idiot would buy.

for example an imaginary friend
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=iol1178702824712E100

Your childs name
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/broomfield_home_life/article/0,1713,BDC_11938_4895735,00.html

and celebrity breath
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=102B545644A7B2DB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

I have also heard of an air guitar being sold :p

I'd bet those bids on the imaginary friend are all joke bids. Nobody is dumb enough to pay for that.

You never heard of the guy that sold nothing on eBay for $4?

The description tells the buyer that he/she is, in fact, buying nothing. And someone purchased nothing for $4. I am unsure if shipping was charged. :p



Also, thank you Fris for doing whatever you did to allow me to post again. :)

My friend sold himself on ebay to get back from Europe...I have the news article, and I'll see if the page is actually still up

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/05/stuck_in_europe_his_ticket_home_was_ebay_bid/

This is worse than anything in e-Bay, and I didn't even click in the link. I just know it is:

(WARNING: Potentially NSFW and mind-seizuring material ahead)

http://www.furbid.ws/

I found this link in a very fair, unbiased, factual resource of information.

My friend sold himself on ebay to get back from Europe...I have the news article, and I'll see if the page is actually still up

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/05/stuck_in_europe_his_ticket_home_was_ebay_bid/

Hahaha, nice.

A few years ago, you could buy chloroform on ebay. Apparently they have since thought better of it.

a couple of years ago a guy here in the UK sold his soul on eBay the successful bidder even got a nice framed document a "receipt" of sorts

it definitely makes things simpler for a modern satanist, no more tempting people with their darkest desires just pop on eBay and souls a plenty

now if they just start selling the new summoner 2000, a gross of black candles and a brace of goats we will be in business:p

Hahaha, nice.

Can't find the original page, but it was impressive. He goes to school in Boston, but grew up in Orange County, California...as such, we actually managed to get him on the news in both markets (both of which are pretty huge markets). Had it been a slow news week, I could see it making national news

My friend sold himself on ebay to get back from Europe...I have the news article, and I'll see if the page is actually still up

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/05/stuck_in_europe_his_ticket_home_was_ebay_bid/

At the tea room, Minney will work the host desk, greeting customers and taking information about their psychic reading requests. Anderson, who is a psychic herself, had heard about Minney's plight in a news report.You'd think as a psychic, she wouldn't have needed to hear it from the news ;)

define 'worst'.
while this:
ET shaped cereal sells for $800 (http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=107372)
strikes one as pretty bad, on reflection I wouldn't call it bad at all. More power to them, if they can come up with an idea dumb enough to get people bidding.
I think worst is all those idiots out there who think they really can get genuine Louis Vuitton and Hermes and Tiffany etc etc for 1/100th of the retail price.

Nobody is dumb enough to pay for that.

Wrong

Stupidity has no limits. Intelligence is not thus handicapped

The kidney was pretty bad.

ET shaped cereal sells for $800

yeah that has to be up there

WTF. by worst I was mainly looking for funny things that you just have to question. But if anyone can sell a piece of cereal for hundereds of dollars or anything else so hyperinflated thats good to add

I have also heard of an air guitar being sold :p
I am thinking of putting a rack looking thing in front of my house with a sign that says "air guitars, 5 cents"

probably people who are addicted to it, and this whole concept (which is absurdly and utterly futile) of persuing gratification by trying to impress anyone.

New Zealand not really for sale say Ebay (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19112037-29277,00.html)

I once got told that my school got put on ebay, and that some people (not realising it was a state school) turned up at the gates asking to discuss the sale. But that was just a rumour.

there is a strong market for well-worn women's shoes on ebay.

the listings tend to empasize how they are kind of ...smelly. they show pics of the print the foot leaves on the inside of the shoe. and while they promise that they will clean them to ebay's standards, i dont think they do.

I'll sell my immigrant imaginary friend, The Latin Assgrabber on E-Bay. I am tired of Mariachi music and midnight assgrabbings followed by maniacal laughter.

This is pretty terrible...

http://www.buyweird.com/items_bought_by_golden_palace_casino_on_ebay/images/pete_townshend.jpg

The Pete Townshend Potato. Bought, you've guessed it, by a Vegas casino!

I'll sell my immigrant imaginary friend, The Latin Assgrabber on E-Bay. I am tired of Mariachi music and midnight assgrabbings followed by maniacal laughter.
I'll trade you my one (1) Swedish Nipple Tweaker for your one (1) Latin Assgrabber.
The good news: she's really hot. The bad news: it's your nipples getting tweaked, and the 3 AM sessions with her imaginary Hardcore Punk group.

This is pretty terrible...

http://www.buyweird.com/items_bought_by_golden_palace_casino_on_ebay/images/pete_townshend.jpg

The Pete Townshend Potato. Bought, you've guessed it, by a Vegas casino!
They've been had! That's definitely a Ringo Starr spud there. definitely.
If I were them, I'd sue!

some 20-something's virginity

http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/student-sells-virginity-pay-education

Last I heard it was going on ebay, but I guess they're not going to let her sell it there.

some 20-something's virginity
how do they pack that up and send it to the sucessful bidder?
I've just envisioned getting someone's hymen in the post. ewww....

Hubby told me of a friend who sold an X-box one Christmas, just a box with an X on it, he was quite clear that it was NOT the gaming system that was popular and hard to get that season, but a cardboard box with a Sharpie marker X on it. :)

He got $75 for it.

Smunkee's talk about boxes reminded of this one:
Man sells wife's box because his cock is too big for it (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/31/ebay_box_sale/)