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Would you spend over $4M to lie on top of Marilyn Monroe?

Steven Hodson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:48:29 +0000

Elsie Poncher must be thanking her lucky stars that there are people out there with more money than brains.

Her husband, Richard Poncher, has been buried in the in a crypt at Pierce Bros. Westwood Village Memorial Park for the last 23 years and while that may not seem all that earth shattering the fact that the crypt below him houses the crypt of Marilyn Monroe definitely makes it interesting. Elsie Poncher said that when her husband was dying he made her promise to put him in the crypt upside down or else he would haunt her for the rest of her life.

But everyone it seems these days is falling on hard times and it is no different with Elsie who decided that to be able to pay off the mortgage on her Beverly Hills home she would move her husband’s remains to the adjacent crypt that he had also paid for and auction off the one he had been in – the one over top of Marilyn Monroe.

Like everything else it seems these days the crypt went up on eBay for auction on August 14th where the bidding started at $500,000 and quickly grew to $1 million in two days. The auction closed out today with Elsie pocketing a cool $4,602,100 million.

Damn.

image courtesy of LA Times

eBay Auction: The Climate Change Thumb Rest

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:55:44 +0000

This original Thumb Rest is designed and initialed by Bebe von Haferflockenlieber and was owned by a renowned international Thumb Wrestling Champion.

As a child the champion lost his puppy to a tornado, so all proceedings from this auction will go to Stamp Out Tornadoes Soon (SOTS). SOTS is an organization that is determined to controle the climate.

See the Thumb Rest eBay auction here, but you’ll have to bid at least $11.

How many times have we found ourselves in the middle of a downpour without our umbrellas, lamenting, “If only someone would do something about the weather”!

eBay Moving Away From Auctions

JR — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:35:55 +0000

eBay is tinkering with the very core of its business model. The company is planning to start focusing more on its fixed-price sales as opposed to its auction-oriented sales. The shift is expected to be announced sometime today, The New York Times says.

The change, of course, positions the site right in line with straight-forward Web retailers ranging from Amazon to Barnes and Noble or Borders. And it’s no surprise: eBay’s auction sales have been underperforming compared to the fixed-price alternative, The Times reports, meaning the auction boom of eBay’s early days may be reaching its end.

The specific changes will include lower upfront fees to encourage sellers to put their stuff online for a fixed price. Such a sale will only cost $0.35 for a month-long listing as of next month — a huge drop, almost 70 percent, from the current fee.

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