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We all love Ebay. You can find anything and I mean anything on this wonderful online superstore, but what kind of weird and strange items lurk in the dark corners of this store? Well I took it upon my self and decided to find out, below is a list of some of the best, or worst Ebay has to offer, and why people might buy it in the first place,

Used Lipstick For the woman on a budget

Canned Worms For fishing of course

One Sneaker- To match your other one sneaker

Toilet brush For those hard to reach spots

Instructional video on how to shrink heads a must view

Fossilized Reptile Dung to add to your collection

Used Toothbrush As a cheap spare

Broken light bulbs Umm... I don't know

Glass Eye washing kit Well if you have a glass eye, I guess you need one

Ghost in a jar To show all your friends

Assorted Glass marbles In case you lose yours

Wooden leg In case of emergency you should always have a spare

Guide to witchcraft For you Harry Potter Fans, although it may bit more descriptive the J.K. Rowings books

The service of an airplane engineer You might be planning a trip around the world.

Your own Personal Island! In the hurricane prone Caribbean I assume, but a nice summer home none the less

Snakes of assorted varieties To accompany you on your plane no doubt

Mannequin Parts Unless you ran a store, I don't want to know what a person would do with them

Ghost in a Box To keep your Ghost in a Jar company

House building kit To replace the one you lost on your Tropical Island

Tube sock To wear with your shoes

Used Tube socks To bother your siblings, and disturb the elderly

A pair of Breast implants For the do it yourselfers

Match books from around the world To set fire in 30 different languages

Old Video games To relive our childhood

Broken Lamps The lights are on but nobodies home

Jars or bottles of sand To keep Davy Jones away or at least that's what they told me

Budweiser from the 1970's The King of Beer in it's prime

Mice To feed the snakes on your plane

Chain Mail To fend off the Black Knight

Junk One mans trash is another mans treasure

Aluminum can, in bulk To help pay for college

Six sided dice by the dozen To play Davy Jones in his favorite game when he visits

Snails To go along with your puppy dog tails

Big Black Caldron To mix everything together, be sure to refer to "Guide to witchcraft" for further instruction

Kittens Because their so cute

Mood rings Because their groovy

Pet Rocks Because were all American

Mom's Home Made apple Pie We all love apple pie and nobody makes it like Mom

Human Skulls For a gross and authentic Halloween decoration

A guide to speaking Romanian You never know when you job will take you to a Romanian speaking nation

Bugs Bunny Apparel What's up Doc?

Half used tube of toothpaste The tube is really half full not half empty, don't be a pessimist

Jimmy Buffet Guitar Signed and Kissed

Used shaving cream and shaving kit Travel sized for your trip to Romania

Toilet seat cushion For your sensitive hind quarters

4' round hole suction hose strainer for trash pump I don't even know where to begin with this one

Dr. Seuss Trash can I will not buy a used trash can for my name is Sam I am!

Dirt Devil Handy Vac To clean up when Davy leaves

Spam In the can or the nifty T-shirt

Useless Remote controls To go with the other useless remote controls on your wall unit

Rubiks Cube To annoy the heck out of you

So it is true you can find anything on Ebay. Weird Al even wrote a song about this, stating a few items that can be found a purchased on this wonderful site. I bet if you looked hard enough you could find Weird Al's CD there, or his action figure! There is no limit to what some people will put up for auction, and the bad thing is there is also no limit to what people will buy!

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