This was somewhat inevitable. The London 2012 Olympics decided to sell the commemorative torches held by everyday people to the runners at a discount price. Quick as a flash, they appeared up on eBay, where the £295 (~$470) torches have hit some astronomical bid prices.
In 1990, the Broad Band X-ray Telescope orbited the Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, gathering data on galactic and intergalactic X-ray energy sources. Now it just gathers dust as government surplus. Unless, of course, you’ve got $US7 million and a hankering for some nifty NASA memorabilia.
Prototypes come and prototypes go — and some, like yesterday’s WALT prototype, get put up on eBay for silly money. Then they vanish again. That appears to have been the fate of a Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 prototype that appeared briefly on eBay yesterday as well.
Based on last year’s iPhone 4S launch, the mad rush to be “first” with a new Apple product appears to be waning — although I guess we’ll see if that’s true on Friday. But if you want to be just about the only one with a given Apple product, how about this WALT Apple phone that just popped up on eBay?
Whenever you’re short on cash there’s always one last resort: sell your stuff on eBay. It seems that New York State’s hoping to plug part of its many-billion dollar budget shortfall by selling its old crap, too.
Some lamentable sucker in California sold a locked safe on eBay for $US123 with a warning of “WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS.” The “nothing less” bit came back to bite him in the accumulation of wealth when the buyer cracked open the safe and found $US26,000.
This glob of dried glue kind of looks like Homer Simpson. Kind of. The thing is that this insignificant blip in the scheme of humanity is about to sell on eBay UK for a metric crap tonne. It’s at £151,000 with two days to go.
Back in the 80s, the United States Navy wanted a stealth aircraft to replace the A-6 Intruder. McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics came up with an ultra-secret flying wing design, an alien-looking aircraft called the A-12 Avenger II. It never flew.
The BBC’s offering up one of the current Doctor’s outfits for charity sale. That’s not something that happens often at all that often, and not shockingly, the bidding is rather brisk.
