What kinds of productive things do you do if you have a free afternoon? Gardening? Cleaning? Canning? A little woodworking, perhaps?
If you’re in Alaska, like eBay seller ak_drummer, apparently you scan your environs for things you can recycle in an unorthodox way, like this iMac hamster cage
. Or a Nintendo GameCube that’s been converted into a hidden storage spot
. Or components of something called a potato spud gun cannon.
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Divine and celebrity-shaped food is an eBay cliché at this point.
Know what this photo is? Can you tell?
Clearly, it’s a “SPICER HOT KIND OF A GOLDEN FLAKE POTATO CHIP THAT HAS NEVER BEEN BITTEN INTO, THAT LOOKS LIKE THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL.” And it can be yours for a minimum bid of $50,000.
If Elvis doesn’t do it for you, how about a plain old heart-shaped potato for $1,000 or more? Or a smiling pinto bean seed
starting at $500?
P.S. There’s also the Virgin Mary on a stone for $15,000 (Australian).
For a mere $1 million, some extremely gullible person can purchase a “Bible signed by Jesus Christ” that’s been carbon dated by the elusive “institute [sic] of History, Ohio, USA,” tested by experts from the “Bibliotheque National” and given the thumbs up for authenticity by the mysteriously unGoogle-able but allegedly reliable “Theologian Jessica Wycliffe.” The picture of the Bible itself has “HOLY BIBLE” stamped on the cover, even though Mel Gibson tried to make sure that you know better.
Oh Mad Max, what fools these mortals be!
Certain fringes in the U.S. have gone more than a little wacky with myths about Obama. A lot of it really isn’t funny.
Here’s one example of paranoia and/or questionable humor on eBay:
A sea shipping container has been repackaged as a “shipping container bomb shelter rubber room” which, touts the tag line “can also be used for a gun case safe to shoot out of!” It’s unclear whether seller “verycleanwater1691″ is a survivalist, or gently mocking survivalists. He/she claims that the $2,100, 1,100-pound container “is not for use to detain humans” with the caveat “WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU PUT YOUR WIFE IN HERE!” Meanwhile, if you were worried that, say, your county comptroller or school board member goes on wild gun and emergency supply-looting sprees on the weekends, there are ostensibly “enough heavy duty latches on these babies to keep the most determined ‘democrat-liberal type’ from stealing anything!”
So, thronecommerical2008’s parents were ostensibly visiting Mt. Vernon, the historic home of our first president, when they came across a small, carved stone. According to the auctioner, it looks like “a fresh rose without the stem and thorns on the half side and a map on the other half,” and his/her parents apparently had no compunction about lifting this item from the grounds of one of our country’s forefathers. For some mysterious reason, this person thinks that this object has brought them luck in love and intends to pass that on, at a hefty cost. He/she is trying to fetch at least $50,000 for the item – that’s $10,000 for each finger of the discount.
One questioner put it this way:
Q: You probably should give that back to who you took it from. Jan-01-09
A: I did not find it inside the mansion. i found it on the pathway with the pebbles. 
The title and description of the auction make a completely different claim.
Sounds like this family chops down lots of cherry trees.
Visit the Stone Rose found in George Washington’s mansion auction.
Sometime, usually well after the age when we first marveled at Dorothy’s bravery in the face of the Wicked Witch of the West in Oz, we find out that the actress behind the Kansas character had her own cast of real-life demons that eventually got the better of her. After five marriages, three children and a lifetime of bitter battles with movie studio executives and her own substance addictions, Judy Garland died of a barbituate overdose at age 47 in 1969.
Now, a small pill box from the dresser of the London apartment where she passed (replete with a notarized letter from her late husband Mickey Deans vouching for its authenticity) is up for auction on eBay – a gruesome artifact of one of Hollywood’s most notoriously painful biographies.
The folklore attached to Garland’s passing is rich and colorful, including the rumor that a tornado blew through Kansas on the day she died. A public viewing of her body, clad in a silver lamé gown and protected by a sneeze guard, drew 21,000 fans.
It’s the subject of some debate, but urban lore suggests that a gathering in honor of Garland’s death was part of the setting of the Stonewall riots, which marked the beginning of the modern gay and lesbian rights movement. Whether or not “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was playing on the jukebox when the police raided the bar is questionable, but the riots certainly did take place on the day of Garland’s funeral.
With a minimum offer of $3,895 and three days before closing, the auction has no bids so far.
Visit the auction for Judy Garland’s pill box.
After watching the unsettling documentary My Fake Baby on BBC America a few months back, it’s nice to find out that not all creators of “reborns” take themselves too seriously… er, maybe.
If you haven’t heard of or seen a “reborn” – they are handmade infant dolls that look stunningly lifelike. In the BBC special, a few women talk about why they purchase the dolls, which some like to take on regular walks in carriages. They model motherhood, often drawing the kind attention of strangers who don’t realize that the doll isn’t an actual human baby. Another grandmother, whose grandchild had moved a continent away, had one made in his exact image as a baby because she missed him.
That said, here’s “Charlie”:
Charlie was made by someone who ordinarily sells reborns and didn’t set out to put a baby head in a jar.
“It just kinda happened one day” says eBay seller lizlovenursery, who made this listing read a bit like a horror movie. A preservative that included bleach was used in the jar, and did cause Charlie’s hair to dissolve.
A prospective buyer asked the question: “Hi does Charley tell the future? eg lottery results etc? and why when i try to log off does he scream “DONT LEAVE ME DADDY”????????????? thanks!”
(The answer was: “I don’t know.”)
Apparently, if the auction reaches $150, a used electric guitar will be thrown into the deal.
Maybe you have questions too. Visit the Charlie auction.
In order for there to be a Felix the Cat and a Snow White and a Star Trek, the world had to first gaze upon a group of Frenchmen in a rocket ship famously plunging into the eye of the man in the moon.
French filmmaker George Méliès created Earth’s first science fiction film “A Trip to the Moon” in 1902 — a silent short feature that pioneered animation and special effects techniques. It also became the world’s first global movie sensation, and was widely bootlegged. One of the most famous piraters was Sigmund Lubin, famous for selling the first commercial movie projector and infamous for plagiarizing other people’s movies. He brazenly showed Méliès film in the U.S. as his own, prompting the Frenchman to cross the Atlantic to pursue legal action, which helped set many of today’s copyright laws into motion. (Thomas Edison also wrangled with Lubin in the courts.)
A 1914 poster promoting A Trip to the Moon as Lubin’s own creation is currently on sale – a rare commodity as few posters from those very early days of cinema have survived at all. Images on eBay are small and low-quality, as the seller wants to keep it from being widely reproduced.
Shepop wants $450,000 or your best offer for this piece of film history.
Visit the A Trip to the Moon movie poster auction.
‘Tis the season for some of the most evil movie props of all time to go up for auction.
Child star Harvey Stephens, who played little evil Damien Thorn in the original 1976 version of “The Omen,” has held onto the prop tricycle he rode into his on-screen mother (Lee Remick), causing her to fall over a second-story banister. Four years ago, Stephens said he wouldn’t part with the piece of scary cinema history because he wanted to give it to his baby daughter, but he began making public appearances with it earlier this year. The live auction will start with a $30,000 bid.
Hollywood dentist Henry R. Dwork wants to cash in on his little piece of film history – specifically, the molds he made for Linda Blair’s tongue extension and teeth, used in “The Exorcist.” If you were wondering, Dwork says he has also “assisted many of Hollywood’s biggest stars with all their necessary cosmetic dentistry, including: Robert DeNiro (for The Deer Hunter and The Untouchables), Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman (for Marathon Man), John Belushi, Marlon Brando and Al Pacino (for the Godfather) and many more.” The doc is looking for $2,500 or best offer.
A seller by the name of “ectoplasm” has a number of props from the Hellraiser movies for sale, including one of the puzzle boxes used in the film, which apparently has some “secret” about it that will help the buyer verify that it’s legit. It also includes oversized corneal black contact lenses worn by “Pinhead” actor Doug Bradley, a resin bust of the creepy character, a hand-painted maquette of the “Pillar of Souls,” and a piece of prosthetic makeup that Bradley donned somewhere in between all of those shiny nails. With three days to go, the bidding currently stands at just under $1,400.
On the lighter side of soul suckage and cinematic carnage, the stop motion puppet used to portray Sigourney Weaver’s evil alter Hell hound ego in “Ghostbusters” is for sale. That live auction begins at $12K.
Visit the Original Linda Blair tongue and teeth molds from The Exorcist auction.
Visit the Hellraiser Pinhead bust and rare movie prop puzzle box.
Visit the Harvey Stephens Damien tricycle from The Omen auction.
Visit the Terror dog stop motion puppet from Ghostbusters auction.
It’s been a good while since anyone reported an Elvis sighting at Stuckey’s or Macchu Piccu, but his DNA — or crumbs once touched by his DNA — are available on a piece of flatware that is for sale on eBay. According to the story, when Elvis played a sold-out show in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1976, he rented the entire floor of a nearby hotel, where fans dutifully swarmed the parking lot and tried to peek into his covered windows.
When plates and silverware were left outside of the King’s room, it was “MAHAM!” [sic], but at least one employee procured a single dirty fork, took it home, and gave it to his sister-in-law, who was bonkers for Elvis. The fork in question has been wrapped in plastic ever since because “there are still particles of food on it that has dryed on it.”
Sellers are asking for one million dollars or the best offer they can get.
Visit the “An actual fork Elvis Presley ate off of” auction.
