Guardian.co.uk:

Online traders are racing to cash in on the Beijing Olympics by selling items related to gold medal winners, ranging from a $1 million price tag on the domain name “Phelpsean” to $4,000 for five pairs of basketballers’ shoes.
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals at Beijing making him the most successful Olympian [...]

Seattletimes.com:
City officials have finally gotten rid of five high-tech self-cleaning toilets that cost Seattle $5 million but sold online for just $12,549.
Four years ago the city installed the modernistic stand-alone toilets in a hope they’d provide tourists and the homeless a place to do their business downtown. But the automated loos became better known [...]

News.com.au:
AN Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover’s underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay.
In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers and an empty condom wrapper “size small” found in her bed [...]

Marketwatch.com:
Right To Play today kicks off its online auction of athletes’ Olympic memorabilia and sports gear from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
In the ultimate show of sportsmanship, Olympians are donating items they hope will raise money in support of Right To Play programs.
Right To Play is an international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play [...]

Elvis Presley’s favorite performance costume, the peacock jumpsuit, sold for $300,000 Thursday, making it the most expensive piece of Elvis memorabilia sold at auction.
Auctioneer Gotta Have It! described the seller as “a big Elvis collector” and declined to say who bought it.
Presley paid $10,000 for the jumpsuit designed by Bill Belew. The record had belonged [...]

Just thought you might be interested in a fun little index that compares the sales of McCain- and Obama-related products on eBay!
http://www.terapeak.com/election/
Here’s a little widget that keeps track of this presidency race. You can embed this into your own blog if you like. The data is updated in real-time.
This widget is created by Terrapeak, another [...]

CNN announced a Paris court on Monday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay $63 million in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online.
Louis Vuitton took eBay to court for selling a range of fake luxury goods online.
The court also barred eBay from selling four perfume brands — Christian Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and [...]

A premium watermelon has sold for more than 6,000 U.S. dollars at an auction in Japan.
A top quality watermelon grown in Northern Japan is said to have broken the world record for the highest selling price, 6,100 U.S. dollars.
Watch this video:

A German mother had to pay a huge price for a sad joke that she intended to play. Few days back she tried to sell her baby on eBay with an opening bid of 1Euro. In case you people are wondering why? The answer is he “cries too much,” this sounds as dumb as [...]

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