Top 10 Epic Ebay Auctions

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[b] 10. Lotus Esprit Turbo Sports Car[/b]

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[b] 9. Captain Kirk’s Charitable Kidney Stone[/b]

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[b]Lotus Esprit Turbo Sports Car[/b]
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, as Birmingham radio DJ Tim Shaw found to his dismay in June 2005. Interviewing glamour model Jodie Marsh on his radio show, Shaw announced on air (as a joke, hopefully) that he would leave his wife, Hayley, and children for the model. Hayley didn’t see the funny side, and promptly advertised her husband’s beloved black Lotus Esprit Turbo (valued around £25,000) on eBay at the “buy it now” price of fifty pence. Unsurprisingly, the bargain sports car sold within a few minutes of appearing on the auction site, and was promptly collected by the –presumably ecstatic – buyer.
Hayley Shaw’s action was vindicated; her wayward husband issued a formal apology live on British TV’s popular “Richard and Judy” show, and later bought back his Lotus for £5,000.

[b]Captain Kirk’s Charitable Kidney Stone[/b]
When legendary [i]Star Trek[/i] actor William Shatner began to experience excruciating back pain in 2005, he was taken to the hospital, where surgeons discovered that the cause of the pain was a kidney stone. Having successfully – if not without discomfort – passed the stone, Shatner asked the hospital if he could keep the offending item. His plan was to auction the ultimate [i]Star Trek[/i] souvenir on eBay in order to raise money for charity. Although organ sales are prohibited under trafficking law, kidney stones are evidently exempt because, in 2006, the Golden Palace Casino bid $75,000 (around £48,000) to successfully beam up the Shat’s kidney stone.

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In 2009, Los Angeles widow Elsie Poncher arranged for the remains of her late businessman husband, Richard, to be exhumed in order to sell his burial plot on eBay to raise enough money to pay off the mortgage of her Beverley Hills home. The unique selling point of this eBay lot? Richard Poncher’s burial plot was directly above Marilyn Monroe’s in LA’s Westwood Village Cemetery, wherein Roy Orbison and Dean Martin also rest in peace. Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine; has his future burial site there as well…next to Marilyn Monroe. Elsie’s plot to sell the plot was a huge success: it sold for $4.6 million (around £3 million).

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In 1962 a meteorite of Martian origin fell to earth in central Nigeria. The largest specimen of the 1.3 billion-year-old meteorite – which was named Zagami – weighed 18000 grams (around 40 pounds), and was part of a privately-owned collection until it was placed for auction on eBay in September 2005. The asking price of $450,000 (£290,000) bought not only a handsomely-sized chunk of the Red Planet, but also a certificate of authenticity signed by renowned geologist and “meteor expert” Dr John Saul.

[b]Not Just Any Pair of Jeans[/b]…but the oldest known pair of Levi Strauss denim jeans, sold on eBay in 2001 for $46,532 (£30,000). Discovered in a mining town in Nevada, Texas in 1998, the jeans dated back to the 1880s; the decade during which Wyatt and Virgil Earp, Doc Holliday and others were fighting it out at the OK Corrall in Arizona, and electric light made its debut in New York. Levi Strauss began producing his jeans in 1873 so, if you can find an earlier pair than those sold in 2001, you might start your very own gold rush. In case you’re wondering who would pay almost $50,000 for an old pair of jeans, the answer is that they returned home: Levi Strauss & Co. bought them.

[b]Sex-Symbol Super Snot[/b]
Appearing on [i]The Tonight Show With Jay Leno [/i]in 2008, Hollywood actress Scarlet Johansson apologised to the host that she was suffering from a cold before blowing her nose twice into a paper handkerchief. Scarlet stuffed the snotty tissue into her handbag, but later autographed it and offered it for sale on eBay, with the proceeds to go to charity. Subsequently, the celebrity mucus-ridden hankie (there was reportedly a bit of lipstick on it too) sold to a charitable bidder for $5,300 (£3,600). Forget woolly mammoths – if ever there was a great opportunity for a spot of DNA cloning…