MetaFilter posts tagged with auctions and ebay

She don't... What now?

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:57:49 -0800

You talked to her father, prepared a YouTube worthy proposal, gathered all your courage.... and she said no. How will your life go on? And what are you going to do with the ring? Enter I Do... Now I Don't, an auction site that caters to broken-hearted lovers such as you. Started by a fellow who has been there. Buy if you dare. Via

Money can't buy everything it's true, but what it can't buy I can't use

psmealey — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:56:25 -0800

eSellout.com : Freaky Things for Sale on eBay. From Your business on my chest, A very normal 1998 red VW Beetle with a long story, A potato that looks like the cartoon character Arthur, A mohawk toupee, Someone selling his dreams, but not in the way you might think, A very unique tomato and many, many more.

Crazy Eddie sells out

Yakuman — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:08:52 -0800

Crazy Eddie. His prices were in-sane! After a failed attempt to revive the home electronic brand known for wacky commercials, the name is being auctioned off on eBay.

eBay pulse

crunchland — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:38:46 -0800

Look at eBay from a different angle. eBay Pulse shows the most 10 most popular search terms, as well as the 10 most 'watched' items on the auction site for any category, including the weird ones. Updated daily.

Not Affiliated with the LDS Church

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:41:17 -0800

Tired of EBay scams? Think EBay is a haven for criminals? Maybe you ought to surf on over to MormonBid.com.

I'll bid on you til there's nothing left but crumbs! Then I'll bid on the crumbs

Frasermoo — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:31:15 -0800

Friday Ebay Feedback Madness

Buy Douglas Adams' tent

feelinglistless — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:45:03 -0800

Buy Douglas Adams' tent What I really want is his towel.

CrunchyFrog — Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:16:46 -0800

EBay in patent dispute. EBay is currently involved in a patent dispute with someone who claims to have patented the idea of online auctions in 1995. EBay believes it has found prior art in a USENET post from 1994.

geneablogy — Sun, 12 May 2002 07:31:01 -0800

NASA scavenges on eBay for old parts for Space Shuttle [NYT link-reg req] The Space Shuttle is so old that many of the parts for it are no longer being made. NASA has been reduced to buying old equipment on eBay to scavenge for circuit boards and old CPUs.

tsarfan — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 10:55:06 -0800

What will people auction-off next? And what ever happened to that person who said he would post a link on MeFi for the high-bidder? Did the post ever go up? Was it worth it? Totally slow newsday.

jcterminal — Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:39:29 -0800

Bid Now! Six more days left if you're looking for someone to beat the living crap out of you. C'mon. You know you want to.

Spanktacular — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:07:45 -0800

Some guy is pissed at eBay for what he (rightly?) considers stealing his business.

o2b — Mon, 14 May 2001 09:46:49 -0800

The funniest thing I've seen in many a moon. Want to find crazy crap on eBay? Don't waste your prescious time, Disturbing Auctions has done it for you!

This for the golfer in the family.

This for the hawaii-bound honeymooners.

This for... I don't know.

tranquileye — Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:22:11 -0800

You're the world's number one Web destination, responsible for 40% of Internet traffic. You've been making money from advertising for years, but you know that you need to diversify your revenue streams. You run a popular auction site with over 2.8 million listings, but the only money it generates is from ads. The number one site in the auction space charges fees, so why can't you? You come up with fees that are lower than your competitor, and implement them. And then, over the next six weeks, the number of listed items on your site falls 86%. What went wrong?

ritualdevice — Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:11:25 -0800

20yr old sells soul on eBay for $400 For the auction listing, he displayed a picture of himself wearing an "I'm with stupid" T-shirt.

milnak — Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:25:19 -0800

Everything's a collectible... on eBay, anyway.

da5id — Thu, 17 Aug 2000 05:41:30 -0800

Buy My Vote!!! Obviously a statement or joke, this could spell trouble for the involved party. I had the original URLs for eBay, but can't seem to find them now :-(

jjg — Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:49:41 -0800

Mach 5 (yes, that Mach 5) now for sale on eBay.

fooljay — Fri, 12 May 2000 15:13:15 -0800

The user who was selling Metallica's soul has been banned by EBay for bidding on another item he/she was selling. The strange part of all of this of course, is that I recognized their username when I read this story. Why can't we delete particular items in memory like we do with files on a computer?

bvanveen — Mon, 01 May 2000 13:25:27 -0800

Next up for bid, the damn raft. That's right, the top item for sale is the raft that Elian survived on while traveling to the United States from Cuba. Although six days are left in the auction, 112 bids have already been placed on it, with the high bid now at $10 million.

premiumpolar — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 22:34:23 -0800

This iMac would be cool in 10 or 15 years. Too bad nobody bidded on it.