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teacher's editions.

  • Human parts and remains
  • Live animals (with certain exceptions)
  • Certain copyrighted works or trademarked items.
  • Lock-picking tools, accessories, and practice locks fall into the category or burglar tools.
  • Lottery tickets, sweepstakes tickets, or any other gambling items.
  • Military hardware such as working weapons or explosives.
  • Virtual items from massively multiplayer online games.
  • Many other items are either wholly prohibited or restricted in some manner. One major example includes several eBay members auctioning debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia following its February 1, 2003 breakup over Texas and Louisiana on re-entry from space. These auctions were removed immediately by eBay. In addition, there are some items that can be temporarily prohibited or restricted following a notable current event, such as World Trade Center memorabilia, whose auctions were temporarily suspended following the 9/11 attacks.

Unusual sale items

  • In June 2005, the wife of Tim Shaw, a British radio DJ on Kerrang! 105.2, sold Tim's Lotus Esprit sports car with a Buy It Now price of 50 pence after she heard him flirting with model Jodie Marsh on air. The car was sold within 5 minutes, and it was requested that the buyer pick it up the same day.
  • In May 2005, a Volkswagen Golf that had previously been registered to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (who had been elected Pope Benedict XVI) was sold on eBay's German site for €188,938.88 ($277,171.12 USD). The winning bid was made by the GoldenPalace.com online casino, known for their outrageous eBay purchases.
  • A seaworthy 16,000 ton aircraft carrier, formerly the British HMS Vengeance, was listed early in 2004. The auction was removed when eBay determined that the vessel qualified as ordnance, even though all weapons systems had been removed.
  • Water that was said to have been left in a cup Elvis Presley once drank from was sold for $455. The few tablespoons came from a plastic cup Presley sipped at a concert in North Carolina in 1977.
  • A Coventry University student got £1.20 for a single cornflake.
  • A man from Brisbane, Australia attempted to sell New Zealand at a starting price of $.01AUD. The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction.
  • One of the tunnel boring machines involved in the construction of the Channel Tunnel was auctioned on eBay in 2004.
  • A group of four men from Australia auctioned themselves to spend the weekend with the promise of "beers, snacks, good conversation and a hell of a lot of laughs" for AU$1,300
  • Disney sold a retired Monorail Red (Mark IV Monorail) for $20,000
  • The German Language Association sold the German language to call attention for the growing influence of Pidgin-English in modern German.
  • In late November 2005, the original Hollywood Sign was sold on eBay for $450,400.
  • In February 2007, after Britney Spears shaved all of her hair off in a Los Angeles salon, it was listed on eBay for $1million USD before it was taken down after some considerable controversy.
  • Bridgeville, California (pop. 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale 3 times since.
  • Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramírez attempted to sell his neighbor's JENN-AIR Gas Grill on eBay. The auction started at $3,000 and the price escalated to an astounding $99,999,999, the maximum amount allowed by eBay. The auction was later closed by eBay because of the promise of an autographed baseball going to the winner as well as the grill; it is a violation of eBay policy to include items other than those advertised.
  • In April 2004, American entrepreneur Matt Rouse sold the right to choose a new middle name for him. After receiving an $8,000 "Buy It Now" bid, the Utah courts refused to allow the name change. He currently still has his original middle name "Jean".
  • In 2004, a partially eaten, 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary sold on eBay for $28,000.

Charity auctions

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Using MissionFish as an arbiter, eBay allows sellers to donate a portion of their auction proceeds to a charity of the seller's choice. Some high profile charity auctions have been advertised on the eBay home page, and have raised large amounts of money in a short time. For example, a furniture manufacturer raised over $35,000 for Ronald McDonald House by auctioning off beds that had been signed by celebrities.

To date, the highest successful bid for a single item for charity was a letter sent to the owner of Clear Channel by Harry Reid and forty other Democratic senators to have a talk with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The winning bid was $2,100,100, with 100% of the proceeds going to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, benefiting the education of children of men and women who have died serving in the armed forces. The winning bid was matched by Limbaugh in his largest charity donation to date.

Customer support

eBay offers various online help features, including a library of self-help resources, e-mail contact forms and "Live Help," which lets users chat with customer service representatives via instant messaging. Although this is not available to users on international sites such as eBay.co.uk, members of international eBay websites are welcome to utilize eBay.com's Live Help service. Excepting Live Help, eBay does not offer phone support to its customers except to sellers of the rank "Bronze PowerSeller" and above, the company's term for members who sell at least an average of $1,000 worth of goods per month on the site, as well as to eBay Store owners.

See also

Notes and references

  1. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/teachersedition.html
  2. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51702
  3. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/remains.html
  4. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/wildlife.html
  5. http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/programs-vero-ov.html
  6. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/downloadable.html
  7. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070130-8731.html
  8. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/ia/prohibited_and_restricted_items.html
  9. "£25,000 revenge of DJ's wife". This Is London. June 21, 2005.
  10. "Golf IV von Josef Kardinal Ratzinger". Golden Palace. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
  11. "For internet sale: aircraft carrier, only three owners". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
  12. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4134407.stm
  13. http://news.bbc.co.uk./1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/4137877.stm
  14. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/712869
  15. "Eurotunnel drill bids reach £5m". BBC. April 5, 2004.
  16. Hearn, Louisa (2006-01-17). "Blokes pull in the bids on eBay".
  17. http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/CPMarkIV.html
  18. "10 Millionen Euro für die deutsche Sprache [[:Template:De icon]]". {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  19. "Hollywood Sign Sold For $450K".
  20. "Buy a piece of HOLLYWOOD".
  21. "Britney Spears' Shaved Hair on Sale on Ebay!".
  22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4875206.stm
  23. "Manny Ramirez's Grill Auction Taken Off eBay".
  24. "Matthew Sells The Middle".
  25. "ABC News: Hungry for Miracles?".

Further reading

  • Belbin, David (2004). The eBay Book: Essential tips for buying and selling on eBay.co.uk. Harriman House Publishing. ISBN 1-897597-43-6.
  • Pugh, Robert (2006). The eBay Business Handbook. Harriman House. ISBN 9781897597682.
  • Wharton, Wiz (2007). How to Have a Baby on eBay. Harriman House. ISBN 9781905641161.
  • Cihlar, Christopher (2006). The Grilled Cheese Madonna and 99 Other of the Weirdest, Wackiest, Most Famous eBay Auctions Ever. Random House. ISBN 0-7679-2374-X.
  • Cohen, Adam (2002). The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Little, Brown & Company. ISBN 0-316-15048-7.
  • Collier, Marsha (2004). eBay For Dummies. John Wiley. ISBN 0-7645-5654-1.
  • Hillis, Ken and Michael Petit with Nathan Epley (2006). Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting and Desire. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-97436-4.
  • Jackson, Eric M. (2004). The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth. World Ahead Publishing. ISBN 0-9746701-0-3.
  • Kent, Peter & Finlayson, Jill (2005). Fundraising on eBay. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-226248-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Klink, Edward & Klink, Stephen (2005). Dawn of the eBay Deadbeats: True Tales of Treachery, Lies, and Fraud from the Dark Recesses of the World's Largest Online Auction Marketplace. Mooncusser Media. ISBN 0-9768372-1-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Nissanoff, Daniel (2006). FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell and Get the Things We Really Want. The Penguin Press. ISBN 1-59420-077-7.
  • Spencer, Christopher Matthew (2006). The eBay Entrepreneur. Kaplan Publishing. ISBN 1-4195-8328-X.
  • Walton, Kenneth (2006). FAKE: Forgery, Lies, & eBay. Simon Spotlight Entertainment. ISBN 1-4169-0711-4.
  • Ford, Michael (2007). Scams & Scoundrels: Protect yourself from the dark side of eBay. Elite Minds Inc. ISBN 978-0-9774760-2-2.
  • Ford, Michael (2007). Dont Bid On It: Until I Tell You How eBay Really Works. Elite Minds Inc. ISBN 978-0-9774760-1-5.

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