It used to be said that certain things can not be bought, but eBay has already seen a lot of goods that cannot be bought, so the creators of the portal will probably not be surprised by anything anymore. Sometimes the strangest business ideas turn out to be the most successful, and sometimes not - on the net we find them all, mixed with each other and without division into categories. After all, what is not on the Internet, is not in the world. We have selected for you a subjective list The strangest items sold on eBay.
Forehead!
The magic inscription “place for your ad” is to the marketing department about what a pencil, used chewing gum and small things from your pocket are to MacGyver - as if there is nothing, and there will be something. In addition, what company would not want to have a customer who would literally be their walking advertisement? From this assumption came a certain American, Andrew Fischer, who put up an eBay auction the opportunity to rent his forehead for 30 days for marketing purposes. More than $37,000 later, a temporary tattoo appeared on it with the logo of the company SnoreStop, which offers anti-snoring preparations. The young student had joy written on his forehead. An interesting business idea, but only for people without bangs.
Grandma on the scale of gold
Somewhere behind bedtime stories read to us in childhood, family dinners or jars of preserves, she hid — grandmother. However, for a 10-year-old British woman, her grandmother was more associated with good business, so she put the old woman up for sale at an auction on eBay, starting at $3,500. In the description, the girl stated that the elderly lady is “annoying but cuddly”, and in her free time she likes to solve crosswords and enjoy a cup of tea. By the time eBay closed the auction, more than twenty applicants had come forward, who eventually had to settle for their own grandmothers - and everything remained in the family.
You meet friends in poverty.
White everywhere, deaf everywhere, where will this snowman stand? Auction on eBay, and in it a photo — snow on the left, snow on the right, a piece of roof in the middle and a garden supposedly. A riddle like with Where's Wally?, and meanwhile our snowman is still in a snowdrift, so not to be found. By the way, it is worth $10 million for self-assembly, which is a snowman like from IKEA. Perhaps the components in this garden were of extraordinary quality, but the prohibitive starting amount caused eBay to close the auction before anyone tried a snowdrift, although I think only some snowman could pay such a sum.
Snowman to build
White everywhere, deaf everywhere, where will this snowman stand? Auction on eBay, and in it a photo — snow on the left, snow on the right, a piece of roof in the middle and a garden supposedly. A riddle like with Where's Wally?, and meanwhile our snowman is still in a snowdrift, so not to be found. By the way, it is worth $10 million for self-assembly, which is a snowman like from IKEA. Perhaps the components in this garden were of extraordinary quality, but the prohibitive starting amount caused eBay to close the auction before anyone tried a snowdrift, although I think only some snowman could pay such a sum.
Scientifically confirmed
Equally invisible, probably also white, but supposedly black in character, was supposed to be a certain ghost trapped in a jar. Frightened not for jokes, the seller did not call specialists from the film Ghostbusters, only he rolled up his sleeves himself and captured the ghost with his own strength, packed it in a glass vessel and twisted the lid. However, the American Aladdin did not intend to rub the jar, waiting for the offer to fulfill several of his wishes, but put his supposed household up for auction, adding that he was not responsible for what could come out of the jar. There was even a merchant willing to pay $55,000, but in the end he never deposited that money. Maybe he opened the jar earlier...
The Man Who Sold His Life
The morning alarm clock before work for each of us means something different, but most of those who wake up respond to the cheerful murderous melody “someday I will quit all this and go on vacation.” Writer and traveler Ian Usher took it very literally and after his divorce from his wife decided to auction his whole life - a house, a car, a probationary period in his job and contacts to friends. The new tenant of Usher's life bought them for $384,000, and he himself embarked on a hundred-weekend trip to a hundred different places in the world, publishing an autobiographical book along the way and meeting a new sweetheart, until he finally bought an island in the Caribbean and built a house there. Life can surprise us, but what will it do when we surprise it?
How many ideas for each other, so many auctions on eBay. The only question is, is it more madness to sell a ghost in a jar or to buy it? Either way, both sides are satisfied, and the largest auction site in the world gains the most from user satisfaction.
