2008 Woodie Awards
EBay: Where you can find anything
Bianca deCastro
Issue date: 10/9/08 Section: Opinion
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So I admit I have a thing for eBay. Yes, I am an eBayer. I sell my old textbooks and purchase Las Vegas club passes, hotel stays and Christmas gifts on eBay. And I also love to find the crazy items for sale.
I am fascinated not only by eBay's amazing growth of users, but mostly with the bizarre items that people sell or attempt to sell there.
There was previously a virginity auction that eBay had put a stop to, due to the auction's violation of rules and regulations. But there are so many other strange auctions that actually make it past eBay's regulation checkers.
One eBay seller recently set up an auction for what he or she claimed to be Michael Jackson's nose, which had been rumored to have fallen off due to multiple rhinoplasty procedures. Someone bought it for $8.
OK, so there may be some justification for this one. Maybe someone was dumb enough to believe it was his actual nose or perhaps they just wanted to collect such a strange thing. Who knows?
Well, how about this one: used breast implants that sold for $151.60. What the hell are you going to do with used breast implants? With that large of a price tag, you could afford to buy 86 homes like the one a Chicago woman recently won on eBay for $1.75.
According to USA Today, the Chicago woman's $1.75 won her an eBay auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw, Mich. Reportedly, she will have to pay approximately $850 in taxes and clean-up fees. Overall, not a bad deal if you ask me. Sure, it looks like a piece of crap but, I'd pay $1.75 to say I own a home and really mean it.
And what's the most expensive pair of socks you've ever purchased? How about buying used sweat socks? The item picture featured a pair of feet sporting the dirty bottom socks which sold for $89.88.
The items get even more strange and ridiculous. I can only imagine that a rich person with nothing better to do would buy something as stupid as what this eBay seller was calling a "ghost in a box." The item description stated that the family had been hunting a ghost in the house and finally caught the ghost in a box.
Some crazed soul bought the taped-up cardboard box for $1,575. I have no further comments about this.
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