yellowstone
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posted on December 2, 2000 06:48:35 AM
What was the wierdest or strangest item you have sold or have tried to sell on Ebay or any other auction site for that matter.
It was about a year ago and I sold a roll of toilet paper for $2.99 plus shipping costs. It was a Christmas roll that had trees and candy canes printed on it.
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eleanordew
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:13:56 AM
Let's see ...
In the past two months, I've sold a roll of trash bags imprinted with a college logo ... and, in a separate sale, 16 big pine cones painted gold.
El
"The customer may not always be right, but she is always the customer."
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KateArtist
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:30:26 AM
LOL, my husband collects toilet paper. I bet you sold it to him. He started that collection as a joke many years ago. I sucked him into Ebay by showing him how many wierd people actually sell toilet paper on it. He is now the proud owner of a package of Charmin signed by George Whipple (or rather the actor that plays him).
He set up the Virtual Toilet Paper Museum on the web - that page has been featured in several newspaper articles and he was contacted by ABC not too long ago about it.
[ edited by KateArtist on Dec 2, 2000 08:31 AM ]
[ edited by KateArtist on Dec 2, 2000 08:32 AM ]
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brighid868
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:38:48 AM
Oh man---now I regret that I gave away my "King Tut" toilet paper to the goodwill a few years ago! Got it during the King Tut relics tour some years ago. Many's the time I was tempted to use it during times of no TP, but I resisted. To think I could have sent it to a museum.
The weirdest thing I ever got money for was a lot of 15 year old makeup that I advertised as "scuffed, old, ugly, garish, makeup". We're talking peacock blues and golds and lime greens. It was purchased for 17.50 and I just about died.
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shaani
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:46:44 AM
The weirdest item I sold was "Nipple Shields" 
They were glass and in their original box from about the 1930's or 1940's. I purchased them with a bottle collection years ago.
I forget what they sold for, I think it was just under $30 but I do remember that they got more hits than anything that I had put up for auction.
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rarriffle
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posted on December 2, 2000 10:40:54 AM
I sold all the Over the Hill stuff I received on my 50th birthday, even the dead plant! The buyer was tickled to get it for her hubbys birthday coming in January. 
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sonsie
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posted on December 2, 2000 12:39:38 PM
Any nursing mother will tell you what nipple shields are for...to keep the little bugger from biting them off! 
There's also a kind that you wear inside your bra between nursing times, to keep your nipples from chafing and getting even sorer than they already are.
And I bet that's far more than you wanted to know...
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carolann56
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posted on December 2, 2000 01:07:20 PM
The strangest thing I ever listed AND sold was an old roledex case in POOORRRRRR condition. With it were 2 cardboard boxes. Equally sad in shape. It was when I'd first started selling, and was getting half the profits from a friend. It was his. He dared me to see if I could sell it. It went for almost $30. Trust me, you'd have had to have seen it to realize how bad it was. The pics showed it, and I mentioned EVERY flaw I could find. I started the bidding at $1.
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macandjan
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posted on December 2, 2000 01:28:41 PM
[ edited by macandjan on Dec 3, 2000 08:35 AM ]
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cix
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posted on December 2, 2000 01:30:07 PM
I sold an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile Pedal car for nearly $300 !!!
I paid $5 for it.
But the weirdest thing I have ever actually seen for sale on ebay was a guy selling Cow Patties from Texas.
He sold them in the "likenesses" of famous people and mentioned he would custom make you a cow patty of any famous people's likenesses.
He started the bidding @ .01 cent and got no bids.
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mikeyacp1
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posted on December 2, 2000 05:14:02 PM
weirdest one I saw was when I first started here in '97. Headline was "Cindy Crawford's pubic hair ( 1 strand). Of course I had to click on it. The description went something like ," Yeah, this is it, the real deal, a pubic hair from Cindy Crawford" (no pix, darn!) Bidding was up around $14 or $15 if I remember right. I always wondered about authenticating it....
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newguy
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posted on December 2, 2000 05:34:01 PM
Rectal Dilators from 1894.
Nuff said.
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victoria
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posted on December 2, 2000 06:51:23 PM
It's hard to say this without being indelicate. The wierdest thing I ever saw on EBAY was "Rocky Mountains Oysters" which had not yet been harvested (date was given though). There was a color picture of a recently removed, unprocessed, natural product, laying in the grass, taken from the last go-round. I guess so that the bidders would know what to expect upon delivery. It (they?) would be shipped in dry ice.
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mrssantaclaus
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:15:27 PM
Not my strangest item - but my strangest sale
Bought a pamphlet at a garage sale for 25 cents because it was date in the 1914. Guy's name was Billy Sunday.
Sold it for $41 to the curator of the new $6 million Billy Sunday museum in Utah.
Buyer was born and raised in the town I have lived nearly all my life.
Go figure!
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jenndiggy1
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:19:19 PM
My strangest sale was a some sports cards. (nothing strange there) but the buyer was buying so he could have another card of HIMSELF! How cool is that!
I think the weirdest thing I've ever sold was hair. I know hair art is collectible, but this was about the same time, but it was just sewn to a piece of paper -- a kind of victorian "photo album".
Nastiest thing I ever saw. I hated putting that in my scanner, but I certainly enjoyed the almost $100 I got from it!
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mzalez
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posted on December 2, 2000 08:55:49 PM
Oh my, what an innnnnterestin' thread!
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Crystalline_Sliver
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posted on December 2, 2000 10:54:42 PM
I have sold alotta weird stuff, but I have the weirdest Shipping story.
The bidder asked if I could send the item in "PURE WHITE PACKING PEANUTS" (that's what she wrote in the confirm e-mail.).
I sent it alright...but, I HAD to insert that one Pink Peanut for kicks.
She gave me a neutral.
:\\\"Crystalline Sliver cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
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celebrityskin
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posted on December 3, 2000 07:50:02 AM
"Crystalline_Sliver"
I would LOVE to know what that Neutral said!!!! hehehehe
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gettbent
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posted on December 3, 2000 08:01:27 AM
The hardest thing for me to let go of was an authentic WWII helmet that this guy wore from just after D-Day till the end (It's a guy thing).
The wierdest I tried to sell were these plastic beer can holders..one of a girl leaning over wearin' daisy dukes and this buff guy with a ripped shirt. They were sooo tacky! No takers though. Says something about my taste in items though...
Make money for your school with www.School-Auction.Com
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bnutt
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posted on December 4, 2000 08:40:30 PM
He He.. I tink My little brother gave me the same can holders last year for christmas. The guy is wearing jeans and no shirt?? If so I have One alos. Never thought to try to sell it.
Bonnie
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nycrocker
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posted on December 5, 2000 01:20:16 AM
New guy, that was hilarious!  The WEIRDEST auctions I ever saw was when I was quite innocently ("ohhh surrrre" you say) searching for my favorite Otomix boxing sneakers. Well I found some and so I went to look at the seller's other auctions... they were in the adult section... this guy was actually selling underwear and jock straps - but not new ones - um, like, used ones, like dirty, stained ones... and his description told about how many guys had ... um... "stained" them.  And ya know what? He was selling them for like $30 - $35 a "pop"! Um no pun intended. Sorry if this was way too much information, but I just had to share. Could YOU keep this to yourself???
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Crystalline_Sliver
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posted on December 5, 2000 01:41:33 AM
Neutral went as follws:
"Seller sent item on time, hated his packing methods. BEWARE!!"
:\\\"Crystalline Sliver cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
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gettbent
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posted on December 5, 2000 02:38:57 AM
bnutt, The same ones!! They are too funny. I think I still have them somewhere (hidden from my wife of course)..ok, ok, truth be known, they are displayed on the mantel....
Make money for your school with School-Auction.Com
http://www.school-auction.com
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amy
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posted on December 5, 2000 03:18:55 AM
A stuffed turtle.
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kyms
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posted on December 5, 2000 06:21:22 AM
My "wierdest" was a 10" Lp on Blood Red Vinyl called "Music to Preform Bladder Surgery By"...That went for about $10.00.
The next wierdest was a white label lp with nothing written on it, when I played it, it was Charles Manson...The inner rim on the vinyl had some sick comments about Sharon Tate etched on...I think that one went for about $50.00.
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preacher4u
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posted on December 5, 2000 09:23:52 AM
The weirdest thing I've sold (and seen!) on eBay was a BIG dessicated toad (hollow), with a zipper on it's belly and a leather strap, designed to be used as a purse!
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