People sell pretty much anything on eBay. And we mean anything. From strangely shaped food to bizarre body parts and the answer to that most important question of all. These are the 10 weirdest things ever sold on eBay.
1. Forehead
You might think you have nothing particularly valuable to sell on eBay. But think again. If you have a forehead, you've got a chance of making big bucks. That's what Andrew Fisher discovered when he put his forehead up for sale as advertising space in 2005. SnoreStop paid $37,375 to advertise a non-permanent logo for their snoring remedy on his forehead for one month. But Kari Smith took the idea even further when she offered up her forehead for a permanent tattoo. Goldenpalace(dot)com pay $10,000 for the honor of placing their domain name on the mother's forehead. She wanted to use the money to pay for her son's education.
2. Entire life
If you thought offering up your name was weird, how about your "entire life"? That's what Ian Usher did in 2008, after his wife had left him, the Brit living in Australia put all his belongings up for sale, including his house, car, motorbike, and jet ski. The winning bidder would even get in the introduction to his friends and a trial at his job. It turned out that none of the highest bidders actually had the funds, but Ian went ahead and sold up, leaving everything behind. He wrote about his story, and Disney bought the rights to the film. By 2014, Ian was living on a remote island off the coast of Panama. A TV documentary was made about his new life.
3. Illinois Cornflake
Breakfast cereal isn't particularly valuable in its normal state. But when it's shaped like something else, its value increases to a crazy amount, take the Illinois cornflake. It sold for $1,350 in 2008. Yes, over one thousand dollars for a single piece of cereal. That's because it was shaped like the State of Illinois. The two sisters who sold the cornflake weren't even from Illinois, but Virginia. The buyer was a Texan who owned a trivia website and was collecting Americana and pop culture items to include in a traveling museum.
4. Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich
If you have an item of food that bears a resemblance to something else, you might well make a fortune. Particularly if it has religious connotations. A woman from Florida kept hold of a grilled cheese sandwich for ten years because it bore an image that looked like the Virgin Mary. She sold it in 2014 to an online casino for $28,000. Just as amazingly, it hadn't gone moldy or deteriorated at all over the decade, Diane Duyser kept it sealed in plastic. The buyer, goldenpalace(dot)com said they would take it on tour and use it to raise money for charity. They went on to buy a cheese Doritos shaped like the Pope's Mitre hat for $1,209.
5. William Shatner's kidney stone
Grilled cheese doesn't seem so weird when you discover that a kidney stone was sold on eBay. The stone belonged to "Star Trek" star William Shatner. The actor said: "this takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?" Well, it turns out it's worth $25,000, as that's what his kidney stone sold for in 2006. The proceeds went to housing charity Habitat for Humanity. Shatner's TV show "Boston Legal" had raised $20,000 for the charity the year before.
Once again, it was online casino goldenpalace(dot)com who snapped up the weird item.
6. Middle Name
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Most people leave their name to their parents. Not Matthew Jean Rouse. As the man from Utah wasn't fond on his middle name, he sold the right to change it on eBay. The name John was inspired by his late grandfather, but Matthew didn't get along with him. The seller's big brother bid $1,500 in an attempt to make him keep the name the same. But a hosting company went big and bid the buy it now price $8,000. Because of legal regulations in Utah, the court refused to change the name, so Matthew never got his money. Or his new middle name.
7. Meaning of Life
It's said that if someone discovered the true meaning of life, they would be the richest person on earth. Probably literally as well as metaphorically. Well, it turns out that you'll learn yourself the princely sum of $3.26 if you think you own that nugget of wisdom. That's what a North Carolina native received in 2000 after offering the "reason for existence". We assume there was a clause that the information couldn't be resold at the gain of the buyer. And who said you couldn't buy knowledge?
8. Guinea Pig Armor
What does every guinea pig need? A suit of armor, of course. And how much would one cost, we hear you ask? Well, $24,300 seems to be the going rate, if you look at eBay. The elaborate suit for a cute creature was put up for auction in 2013 to raise money for the Metropolitan guinea pig rescue. The nonprofit Virginia organization rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes unwanted guinea pigs. There were 47 bidders involved. Sadly the winning bidder backed out, so the suit got relisted.
9. Window
How can a window fetch a winning bid of over $3 million on eBay? When it's said to be the window where Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy. The window and frame from Oswald's "sniper's perch" at the Texas School Book Depository were sold by the local family that owned the depository. The winner offered a massive $3,001,501 in 2007 to own the apparent piece of history. But two years later, the authenticity was contested. A Kennedy memorabilia collector claimed to own the "real" snipers perch. The dispute went to a Dallas Courtroom after both tried to sell their windows. And that a $3 million bidder? Turned out the money wasn't really there.
10. Justin Bieber's hair
Of course, it's not surprising that body parts become even more valuable when they belong to someone famous. And when that person is Justin Bieber. The body part is his much talked about hair for the crazy value of $40,668! When the singer took a lock of his newly chopped hair to his interview with Ellen Degeneres in 2011, the TV talk show host immediately put it on eBay. Animal rescue organization, The Gentle Barn Foundation, was the lucky recipient of the tens of thousands of dollars.
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