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Amazing eBay Stories

Top 5 Most Expensive Items Sold.

December 22, 2009

Top five most expensive items ever sold on eBay are:1. Gulfstream II jet: $4.9 million 2. 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card: $1.65 million 3. Diamond Lake Resort, western Kentucky: $1.2 million 4. Shoeless Joe Jackson’s “Black Betsy” baseball bat: $577,610 5. Round of golf with Tiger Woods: $425,000
For the Gulfstream II [...]

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Collector’s Corner: Old Beer Cans on eBay Turn Some Heads

December 22, 2009

Got a really old beer can laying around? Before you throw that away, read this story of a woman who found an old beer can in the crawl space of her home while remodelling and put it up for auction on eBay.

The Clipper Beer Can Story
by Daphne
eBay Staff Member
“If you don’t know what [...]

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The Toaster Lady

December 22, 2005

The Toaster Lady

This is a story of a Springfield woman, Charlotte Crawford who purchased a vintage toaster for $20 at a yard sale and sold it on eBay for over $5000.

Antique toaster from Ore. garage sale sets frenzy on eBay
01:57 PM PDT on Thursday, July 22, 2004
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Springfield resident Charlotte Crawford was [...]

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Wedding Dress Larry

September 22, 2005

Larry Star never would have imaged what kind of a media frenzy he was about to create when he put his ex-wife’s wedding dress up for auction on eBay.  Read on…
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Wedding Dress Guy Breaks eBay Record with 6 Million Hits
A guitar player in a band called The Buzzcuts [...]

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Old Fishing Lure Brings $31,857.50 Catch for eBay Seller

December 22, 2004

This story is what all eBay sellers dreams are made of;  an old wooden fishing lure, tossed around and was finally put up for auction on eBay.  It sold for over $30,000!!!

Old Fishing Lure Brings $31,857.50 Catch for eBay Seller
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
February 18, 2003
It’s the kind of auction every eBay seller dreams of: listing an [...]

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