eBay : Unusual sale items

In June 2005, the wife of Tim Shaw, a British radio DJ on Kerrang! 105.2 sold Tim's Lotus sports car with a Buy It Now price of 50 pence. This was after she heard him flirting with model Jodie Marsh on air. The car was sold within 5 minutes.[23]
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. The winning bid was made by the GoldenPalace.com online casino, known for their outrageous eBay purchases.[24]
In September 2004, the owner of MagicGoat.com sold the contents of his trash can to a middle school language arts teacher, who intended to have her students write essays about the trash before it was cleared away by a well-meaning janitor.[25]
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. [14]
A Coventry University student got £1.20 for a single cornflake. [15]
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. [16]
One of the tunnel boring machines involved in the construction of the Channel Tunnel was auctioned on eBay in 2004.[26]
A man from Arizona sold an air guitar on eBay for $5.50 [17].
A group of 4 men from Australia auctioned themselves to spend the weekend with the promise of "beers, snags, good conversation and a hell of a lot of laughs" for $1,300[18]
Disney sold a retired Monorail Red (Mark IV Monorail) for $20,000