Friday, January 25, 2008

Lacking ideas?

Nowadays everybody knows the web site ebay for its selling/buying services. Becoming more and more popular, the website is diversifying its announces and created the category "Weird stuff". This one is itself splitted in 3 categories which are "Slightly Unusual", "Really Weird" and finally "Totally Bizarre".
Link : Weird Stuff

If you visit the site, be careful! Preview images are not always in relation with the object sold. There is a lot of announces which contains female photos to attract male customers...

There you could buy a domain name, dehydrated water (true story!), a huge collection of books supposed to help learning making money easily...
Moreover the seller Lombracremisi offers one of his used lucky running shoes for only 10 dollars. (Click on the photo if you are interested)


Here is a list of some unusual objects sold on ebay :
1. Gulf Jet Stream - $4.9 million (the most expensive item sold on the site)
2. Lady Thatcher's Handbag - £103,000
3. Max the Mammoth (prehistoric skeleton) - £61,000
4. Joanna Lumley's Ferrari - £35,000
5. Decommissioned Nuclear Bunker - £14,000
6. A date with Penny Smith (GMTV presenter) - £9,000
7. David Beckham's Range Rover - £24,000
8. Ronan Keating's Leather Trousers - £5,000
9. FA Cup Final Football Medal Bradford City 1911 - £26,201
10. Jamie Oliver's scooter - £ 7,600
11. Wedding dress (modelled by ex-husband - the highest viewed item in the history of eBay - over 17 million) ) - £2,125


PS : Moreover, for the french version of the website, there is the equivalent : "ebay insolite" (link) which is, according to me, more amazing and funny than the english version.

2 comments:

Mathieu Ancelin said...

Your post is really awesome. People are really crazy, they really try to sell anything on ebay.

Denis said...

yes, it's awesome ... and terrifying too :P