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The online consumer-to-consumer service has served as a platform for millions of sellers—from ordinary consumers to business merchants—to auction off their personal items for financial exchange. But with the liberty to pretty much hawk anything you want, eBay’s earned a reputation for promoting some of the most insane memorabilia ever auctioned. Caught in the midst of the hysteria are celebrities, who have jumped on the market place to push their own crazy possessions either for charitable purposes, to reimburse the IRS, or simply keep themselves from starving another day. Thought Skateboard P's hat was a bizarre buying option? From body casts to used furniture, these are some of The Weirdest Celebrity Items Auctioned on eBay.
Corey Haim Pulling Molars For Cash
Year: 2001
Auctioned for: $150 (Unsold)
The former Lost Boys star and Hollywood tween hit rock at the start of the millennium, to the point where he tried pushing his own teeth online to feed a long-going drug addiction. According to some people at the Startifacts memorabilia store in Las Vegas, dude visited a dentist to remove his less-than-pearly whites, which went went up for the going rate of $150. Your boy couldn’t get anyone to bite.
Obie Trice Auctions Eminem's Used Couch
Year: Circa 2002
Auctioned for: $2,000 (Unsold)
Eminem selling Eminem’s used furniture: no biggie. Marshall’s future Shady Records signee selling his used furniture: awkward as fuck. In the words of Obie: "As a joke I had this couch that Eminem gave me a long time ago, so I put it on eBay for sale. It was one of those things, if it worked, I would of sold it (laughs). It went the wrong way and people thought that I was broke.” Now's a better time than never to repost it homie.
Cam'ron Unloads His Laffy Taffy Range
Year: January 2003
Auctioned for: $160,00
There's absolutely nothing wrong with copping (or selling) a pink Range Rover, unless you're one of the hardest rappers out and call Harlem your home of residence. The “man who had every gangsta wearing pink” knew he took an L splurging on his Laffy Taffy truck, so he tried recouping the loses by selling it on eBay. And he did just that—20 grand less than it’s original listed price of $180,000. Oh boy.
James Blunt Offers Sister
Year: 2004
Auctioned for: Unknown
Never once would you expect the voice behind one of the biggest ballads of the past decade to pull such a dick move, but James Blunt sang the tune when he auctioned off sister Emily for kicks. Blunt broke his silence to GQ stating, "The stupidest thing I've ever sold is my sister, on eBay… I was waiting for my first album to come out and ended up selling pretty much everything I owned on eBay. I had a mild addiction." Lucky for him, the mystery man wasn’t a human trafficker and actually married his sis three years later.
Gary Coleman Auctions Sweat Pants
Year: January 2008
Auctioned for: $500
You gotta feel for a celeb who’s succumb to such financial burdens, they’re forced to sell their entire closet to survive. Enter Gary Coleman. Before his death, the Different Strokes staple listed his size XL 12 regular sweatpants from Gap Kids to keep up his daily dialysis treatments. Granted most fans would have paid double for his autograph alone, his child-sized leg warmers didn’t make for an enticing purchase. Luckily, Jimmy Kimmel proved to be a true class act by purchasing them for five Benjamins.
Tila Tequila's Breast Cast Donation
Year: November 2009
Auctioned for: $110,000
Prior to her charitable contribution, the last time we heard the name Tila Tequila was when Joe Budden bodied her in his BET Cypher. Nonetheless, the Internet model linked up with the Keep-A-Breast Foundation to auction off a painted cast of her breasts. A date would have sufficed just as much. Guess her chest heart was in the right place.
Jesse James' Mini-Twin Coffins
Year: May 2010
Auctioned for: Unknown
Only wannabe vamps and emo kids should have a coffin in their cribs. Yet Jesse James had not one, but two hand-painted ones at his disposal. OK. Either way, the West Coast Choppers customizer listed both resting spots on eBay in an attempt to put his freaky past life to rest, and cash out. Some would call it fitting since his career died the moment he cheated on his ex-wife during the peak of her career.
Ellen eBay's Justin Bieber's Locks
Year: Feb. 2011
Auctioned for: $40,668
Not a pair of concert tickets, custom Jordans, or a microphone. A lock of hair, people. The always charitable Ellen DeGeneres saw a way to make some money off the pop signer and took pair of clippers to his head, encasing his hair in a Plexiglas box that was also signed for an eBay auction. Again, not the typical celebrity donation one would expect. All proceeds went to the animal rescue foundation The Gentle Barn.
Will Wheaton's Crapy Ping Pong Ball
Year: September 2012
Auctioned for: $1,135.00
The king of awkward eBay auctions lived up to the titled after listing a dented ping-pong ball. That’s not the weird part. Dude went on to name the item Silas and literally wrote out a mini-back story for it: “Silas was the one ping pong ball in the box that all the other balls made fun of, because he had a name they didn’t understand and he liked to read books instead of going to parties — what the hell is wrong with those other balls?” Sad part is someone actually purchased Silas.
Young Buck Cashes Out On Craps Table
Year: October 2012
Auctioned for: $4,000 (est.)
When you owe the government nearly $20 million in back taxes, not even 50 Cent’s bank account can get you off the hook. Young Buck learned the hard way after he filed for bankruptcy and was forced to payback Uncle Sam by moving his personal belongings on eBay. Anyone find the irony in a broke rapper selling his craps table? Talk about a bad gamble.
George Zimmerman's Fake American Flag Painting
Year: December 2013
Auctioned for: $100,099.99
Though he might be looked upon more as Public Enemy No. 1 these days, Zimmerman's constant media coverage has kept him in the limelight long enough to claim a spot on the 15-second-of-fame Walk of Shame. Before all the boxing match hoopla, the man acquitted for the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin went on to sell what he called his America-themed artwork. Only problem was the painting was a blatant ripoff of another Shutterstock image. Some damn Yankee brought it anyway for six figures. Ain't that some shit.
Pharrell's Mountaineer Hat
Year: March 2014
Auctioned for: $44,100
The Vivienne Westwood hat has become so synonymous with the musician—it’s hard to envision a future awards show without it sitting on his dome. Not that we’re saying it's fly headgear. Hell no. But Pharrell made the Mountaineer look his own before parting ways with the hat, offering it up for auction with the proceeds going to his educational nonprofit organization, From One Hand to Another. Guess the fact that Arby’s ended up the winning bidder places this in the WTF category.