10 Totally Bizarre Ebay Auctions

6.Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese

Cost: approx US$28,000

We feel pretty comfortable saying that there has never been a grilled cheese sandwich as breathtakingly expensive as this one. If you believe the story, it was made in 1994 by a woman in Florida who realised it bore the face of the Virgin Mary. More than 10 years later (the woman claimed the sandwich never went mouldy) she decided to sell it on eBay where it was snapped up by an eager buyer for a massive $28,000. That’s one serious sandwich craving.

7.A Cornflake Shaped Like Illinois

Cost: approx US$1,350

Turns out that while a run of the mill cornflake doesn’t offer much opportunity for profit, one shaped like an American state is a real money maker. The cornflake was put up for sale in 2008 by two sisters who (ironically) weren’t from Illinois at all. It was purchased by the owner of a trivia website who apparently planned to add it to his travelling museum of American pop culture.

8.Ian Usher’s Life

Cost: approx US$300,000

It’s hard to come back to your life after a difficult breakup, and lots of people make drastic and life-changing decisions to get back on track. But we bet nobody ever did what Ian Usher did. When his wife left him in 2008, Usher decided to put his entire life up for sale on eBay for $300,000. The sale included his home, his car, his friends and the possibility of his job as a sales associate. With the money he began a life of adventure, completing 100 of his life goals in 100 weeks and even writing a few books.

9.The Original Hollywood Sign

Cost: approx US$450,400

Back in 2005 a man named Dan Bliss listen a piece of history on eBay: the original Hollywood sign. The auction lasted 10 days, and the sign ultimately went for more than $450,000. Bliss, who got the sign two years ago from another man who picked it up more than 25 years ago when it was replaced in 1978. The sign was in storage for those two decades, and Bliss said at the sale that he hopes whoever purchased the sign had big plans for the 50-foot high letters.

10.William Shatner’s Kidney Stone

Cost: approx US$25,000

There are so many reasons that 2006 was a strange year, and one of them is that it was the year William Shatner sold a kidney stone on eBay for $25,000. The stone was purchased by online casino GoldenPalace.com for their American pop culture exhibition, and the full sum of the sale went to housing charity Habitat for Humanity. Apparently the stone was a sizeable one, with Shatner noting that you could wear it on your finger.

People are not just crazy about buying things at a bargain price on eBay, but also finding the weirdest offers such as virginity, a celebrity’s half-eaten toast and even chewing gum?  One man’s trash is indeed another man’s treasure (or misfortune). You better be sober the next time you put that item on your virtual cart.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen for sale online?