Ridiculous Items for Sale on Ebay - and Stupid Rules!!

I liked the alien duck x-ray. That one was all over my local news. Or how about the monster in a ziplock that came out from under the bed.

Yea, but ya know what, all the stupid as you put it and bizarre is what makes ebay what it is. I like it just the way it is myself

Well if there is someone stupid enough to bid on it then why shouldn't they profit off of it. They have their own section for the weird and strange. If you don't like it, just do not go and look in those catagories. Hey I once saw a new bar of irish spring soap, still in the box go for several hundredS of dollars. *shurgs*

In Canada we had a federal election in the fall and someone sold his vote on ebay. He gave up his right as a Canadian citizen and sold his vote. I can't recall how much it sold for but it was a significant amount and got him in the headlines too. Amazing! I did not hear about the ones Brandi mentioned - those are truly wierd.

I'm not really offended by it and find a lot of the auctions funny, and I like a good laugh. If it's stupid, and someone is stupid enough to buy it, now that's funny! It doesn't really take away from anyone, and I think is part of what makes ebay, ebay. You can sell anything you want to anyone who wants it! Besides, then the Jay Leno bit called "Things We Found On Ebay" would be over! Please no!

hi, I revised this so now I will add previous comments back to it.

I mentioned: Lately I have been selling used textbooks, to help parents who homeschool, or want to review with thier child over the summer, etc. I discovered that Teacher's Editions were not allowed. Well if the school system saw no problem selling them to me, and some parents are not so self assured teaching and need a TE, I don't see a problem. Ebay stated a student could buy that item and use it to cheat. actually they could buy it anywhere, if they wanted to badly enough, and my books are quite old, 5 years plus, I doubt if they would benefit any student.

then, I posted that I was wondering why some listings that aren't ouragous still get removed by Ebay??? a good point by:

a comment from ebayer was posted:
Jul-05-06 22:48:55
beedointernational

Didn't someone once sell the ghost of a relative?
Sometimes it is not

the item you are selling...it is what you are advertsing it to be. For example, a seller is perfectly free to sell N95 respirators / masks. But if you mention bird flu in your listing, it will be pulled. Why? Because there was a feeding frenzy on such masks after media reports, a special Oprah program on the bird flu, etc. that caused the iventory of 3M masks in the USA to dry up. Apparently, the US govt / FEMA was afraid if there was a bird flu outbreak here in the US, they would not be able to get ahold of masks to make them available to the public (fear of another Michael Brown-type fiasco). So the government asked
Ebay to yank any listing that referred to "bird flu" or avian flu", with a hope that would cause the demand to wane. The reason given is that the seller is representing the masks for use for medical purposes. It does not matter that a listing might directly quote the US government's own website (CentersUS govt can say it...but an Ebay seller can't. What happened to Free speach? ( for Disease Control) that these masks should be used as a preventive me

scoval63 and iiapco are right, if someone will buy it who are we to judge.

rules are rules and if you don't like it sell on one of the other ebay like sites.

Yes I do like the the less serious items, and often if I have no place to go, I will just cruise Ebay to see what's up for Entertainment, LOL but then again it puts me as to why then do they restrict some things that aren't Outrageous, for Unfair reasons,
- the Road should go Both ways, Reins Free or Legitimate -

I especially enjoyed the big Hairy Dude in his X-Wife's Wedding Dress... LOL that was a good sales pitch! I went back every day to see what new posts of comment he had gotten!

I just wish I could come up with something stupid to sell, I almost sold my meat tenderized feet the other day LOL You had to be there lol

now the grilled cheese sandwhich that looked like Virgin Mary was silly, and really should of violated Safe Food Handling protocols on Ebay but yet they let it go, for Thousands of Dollars!

We used to have a news reproter who did Outragous Ebay stories too, but he hadn't been on latley. what was the story about the Handful of Peanuts?

I tried to sell the fur from my bathed and groomed / clipped 2 cocker spaniels, not just as a joke but some people do actually make yarn or crafts from pretty animal fur, but, alas, it didn't sell. LOL

on a serious side here, I was looking for CPU's last night. How can Ebay allow people to sell computer parts that are NOT Tested, Not guaranteed to be in working order, Buyer Takes Chance Auction, I mean isn't that like a lotto ticket? a person can make a ton of money selling bogus parts. I think all Electronics should be tested and sold in working condition. yet Ebay is allowing this. heck I could go thru a trash can and sell - broken take a chance junk - too... but I have more respect for my ebay friends then that.

I tried to sell a "Fine Art T-Shirt" for a million dollars. Ebay said it was a "joke ad" and pulled it even though it was getting a ton of hits. For god's sake, I was serious! I wanted to sell that t'shirt for a million dollars! If other artist can sell crap art for exorbitant prices, so can I! Who can put a price on art??

I BELEIVE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SALE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO MAKE A $. THIS SIGHT IS A GREAT WAY TO MEET NEW FRIENDS AND FOR PEOPLE TO JUST BE THERESELVES. IF I COULD COME UP WITH A HILARIOUS LISTING BELEIVE ME IT WOULD BE UP FOR AUCTION TODAY. THE BUYERS ARE THE ONES THAT PUSH THE BID BUTTONS NOT THE SELLER.

I've been trying to think of something entertaining too, that dude who invented the Pet Rock, was on to soemthing, even if it is a short lived gimmick, ya make money, I mean well, that's funny, not a health hazard, doesn't permanently alter anyone's body, doesn't relate to something religious..I mean that is good clean fun and an honest product. We should put our heads together and come up with Ideas, esp. with Christmas coming...some kind of great New Fad for Gifts!

if something does not work it should say so because some people use the good parts off the things that dont work to put things of the same model in mint conditon

THAT's EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN ---nascartycoon !!!! E-X-A-C-T-L-Y-!!! yes we all Agree, we LOVE to see those silly things on EBAY and feel it should be a Free Enterprise and hey ya don't Have to Bid on it! RIGHT? the WHY are SOME Outrageous Things Permitted..and Other's Removed!!! that is MY POINT! I mean what's going on here??? WHO makes these rules, do they read their own rules, do they have meetings with their STAFF who edits these as what is allowed and not? or is it just their each own's personal opinion as it Seems to be? or is it, ONLY items EBAY think's they'll make a Big Commission profit Off Of, and the rest of us, are taken off? I know Money Talks and Ebay needs to decide, do they wanna make all kinds of money, being a Free and Open Market to anything as long as it; causes No Harm to another, no National Security Risk, Nothing Illegal or Immoral, and is completely advertised as honestly, i.e. not leaving anything out, as to whether it Works or Not, Broken or Damaged etc.. should be ALLOWED or do they want to become a Serious Market Place for people trying to make a living or a few extra bucks? ya can't say This Ebayer can sell Square Chicken Eggs, but this other Seller Can't! RIGHT????

SO... what is on Ebay this week that is outrageous or funny?

what about the dude who invented the silent fart? Open the box and oops, you let it out!

I also like to browse and see what are the
MOST expensive things going on EBAY...
my oh my..the BiG Bucks Ebay must be raking in.. $$$$

brandi*sfindsoftheweek.... did it smell?????????? LOL

and I bet somebody made enough $$ to Laugh All the Way to
the Bank on that one! LOL If They can Do iT..WE can DO iT!?

I've seen an auction for somebody selling Family for Christmas... to be a fill in Family for somebody lonely who would not like to be alone. Yeh it seems terrible for a person to have to pay for companionship, But 1.) charity work is down these days, because people have to work 2 jobs just to make ends meet, but 2.) ya never know, they might strike up friendship and next year they'll come again only for Free, or 3.) maybe there's a Good Reason...nobody visits them for Christmas..LOL

27cadetmom... think in the U.S. the put a stop to somebody selling a Vote..though. LOL but you can't tell me.. this DOESN'T go on ALREADY!! come on, we're Talking Politics!!!

What Next? LOL

what i think is really good is when you have a small disciption of something and they say "TO INCREASE SALES BE MORE DISCIPTIVE" and when you do your list price goes up. who's sales are they talking about, sure not ours.

see any good Roswell or UFO items on Ebay anybody???

no but wiccan spells are being sold on everything else for 149

I can't believe I went to Weird Stuff and ALL it was full of, was PORN! if Ebay is goign to be so picky about listings why do they allow that? or at least have them NOT POST gallery photos of naked people on the listings... only if ya click on the link to the page. I don't wanna look at that smut while I am looking for something unusual. and they way they listings are worded my heavnens..come get my pussy.. come on...EBAY ALLOWS listings to be titled like that????
HELLO???? AND did you notice on Ebays complaint system now, you have to complain within thier guidlines they won't let you just submit an e-mail message genral complaint anymore. talk about ears closed.

they must have read your blog cybersherri because i dont see anything even close to that when i serch wierd stuff i did it because i didnt believe ebay would put that up

its still there under Weird stuff totally bizar:

http://everythingelse.listings.ebay.com/Weird-Stuff_Totally-Bizarre_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ1469QQsocmdZListingItemList

if they are gonna do adult material like that then it should be listed under ONLY ADULT MATERIAL AND ITEMS not under anything else so kids or who ever can't accidentally get to these listings while trying to find something Unusual.. Plus if they are going to ALLOW porn images in the listing gallery then a double password
must be required to verify AGE!!!!!

i agree

a good on I saw last night are the Mars Meteorites going for tens of thousands of dollars! there was a special series on the tv the other night about meteors, no doubt many people are playing off of this! I mean if so many were real, you would think the scientists would have them first for thier research work! LOL

Those sound like good ones, you can spend all night just surfing around on good ol' Ebay! LOL HAPPY NEW YEAR EBAYERS!