Unusual items sold on eBay:
- The right to permanently tattoo an ad on a woman’s forehead (sold to GoldenPalace.com for $10,000)
- A Volkswagen Golf that had previously been registered to Josef Kardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) (sold on eBay’s German site for €188,938.88)
- The first ride on Kingda Ka, the tallest roller coaster on Earth ($1,691.66)
- A piece of Nutri-Grain resembling E.T. ($1,035 Australian)
- A 50,000-year-old mammoth weighing 250,000 kilos (£61,000)
Unsold: a 16-year-old’s virginity and a half-eaten grilled-cheese sandwich.