10 Weirdest eBay Items Sold

1. Forehead Advertising Space

A man auctioned off 30 days of ad space on his forehead to be used as a billboard.
Andrew Fischer, from Omaha, Nebraska said: “The winner will be able to send me a tattoo or have me go to a tattoo store and get a temporary ink tattoo on my forehead and this will be something they choose, a company name or domain name, perhaps their logo”. The auction reached $322.
However that wasn't the only time this has happened. In Utah, in 2005, Kari Smith offered her forehead and ended up selling it to an online casino, goldenpalace.com for 10,000 dollars. It may seem a lot, but she actually had it done with permanent ink, a tattoo so it is still there.

2.Human Kidney

A man from Florida auctioned off his kidney on eBay in 1999. He would even let the buyer choose which kidney they want, but insisted they get only one. The bid reached $5.7 million before it was taken down from the site, due to the fact that it’s illegal to sell human organs on eBay.

 

3. A Ghost in a Jar

A jar that a man believed to contain a ghost was put up for auction on eBay because it was terrorizing the owner. The seller, Teajay101, claimed that he “would not be held responsible” if the “black thing” escaped the jar, and that “all sales are final.” After numerous bids, the auction ended seven days later at a whopping $50,922, but unfortunately the winning bidder did not pay.

4.A Hollywood Sign

 

 In 2004, Dan Bliss auctioned off the original Hollywood sign, California's landmark. The sign was put up in 1923 at a cost of 21,000 dollars. Bliss, who bought the sign 2 prior from a nightclub owner started the bidding at 300,000 dollars and ended up roping in 450,400 dollars.

5. Illinois-shaped Corn Flake

Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay in 2008 for $1,350.
"We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "There's a lot of relief involved."
The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of a trivia Web site who wants to add the corn flake to a traveling museum.

6.Grandmother 

 A 10-year-old girl from England tried to sell her Grandmother on eBay. She advertised her as ”annoying” but ”cuddly”. Despite a number of bids being made for Grandma, the listing was taken down soon after

7. A Haunted Rubber Duck

In 2004 in Ontario, Canada a man succeeded in selling his child's rubber duck for 107.50 dollars.

8. Britney Spears Bubble Gum 

 A woman sold a piece of bubble gum that Britney Spears had chewed and spat out at a concert at Wembley Arena in 2000. The winning bid was $14,000.

9. New Zealand

In 2006, a man in Brisbane, Australia, put up an eBay auction to sell New Zealand. Starting the bidding at 1 cent, the man claimed he'd been to Auckland, hated the weather and decided to sell the country. The bid made it up to 3000 dollars, but once discovered, eBay took it down.

10. The Meaning of Life

In 2000, a North Carolina resident posted an auction claiming that they had discovered the reason for existence. With an opening bid of just one cent it came all the way up to 3.26 dollars, which is a lot considering the stupidity of the "product".