My house is filled with this crap Shows up in bubble wrap ‍'‍Most every day What I bought on eBay. —"Weird Al" Yankovic,eBay

eBay, the web'sBazaar of the Bizarre. Although it acts primarily as anAuction-based website,^{[please verify]} some sellers use "Buy It Now!" buttons allowing you to instantly purchase the item at "bargain" prices.

It can be a useful way of avertingNo Export for You, toKeep Circulating the Tapes and - as with everything else on the web - helping indulge yourFetish Fuel. You cannot, however, sell people or weapons. We've tried.

eBay has now become a trope in itself, as the place where heroes can find theirPlot Coupons.

• Air Guitar: Yes, some really do get sold.
• All Animation Is Disney: Either because the sellers are genuinely unaware, or becausethey think they'll sell more if they claim their old VHS copies ofDon Bluth movies are made by Disney.
• And 99 Cents
• Artifact Title: ebay.com originally was the website of Echo Bay Technology Group, the consulting group owned by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (who initially ran the auction business on the side as a hobby).
• Auction: The whole point.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: Some exhibitionist sellers delight in uploading nude pictures of themselves via reflections in metal objects they're selling on the site.
• No Swastikas: "eBay does not allow listings or items that promote or glorify hatred, violence or racial intolerance, or items that promote organisations with such views." So, you'll have to sell your oldWorld War 2 memorabilia somewhere else.
• Read the Fine Print: Some people like to sell boxes for gadgets with warnings like "PSP box, PSP not included". Despite this, people might still pay hundreds for it.
• We Sell Everything: Almost everything, anyway. Whysteal a traffic cone when you could buy one?
• What Did I Do Last Night?: Can happen if you browse eBay while drunk.
• Young Entrepreneur: You can make a lot of money by selling.

Film

• Transformers: Sam intends to sell his great-grandfather's glasses on eBay (thanks to aProduct Placement deal for the film).
• InFinding Nemo the aquarium fish list where they came from. For the Starfish, that's eBay. Except that live animals aren't allowed to be sold on eBay, making this a case ofDid Not Do the Research
• InToy Story 3, Hamm suggests to the group that they look up what they're going for on eBay, because, after all, Andy doesn't want them anymore.

Literature

• The Dresden Files: In a case ofDid Not Do the Research, one villain tries to sell Harry on eBay.
• Joe Hill's novelHeart-Shaped Box is a curious example. The main character buys a ghost from what the book describes as "an online auction site, not eBay, but one of the wannabes".
• Yellow Eyes has something of aRunning Gag about how it's amazing what you can find on eBay, including an alien medical device used to build a physical body for anAI and a mate for aformerly hostilePosleen advising the humans after the war.

Live-Action TV

• The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon sells aWorld of Warcraft item on eBay. This is, however, a case ofDid Not Do the Research, as Blizzard would have banned Sheldon and the buyer fromWarcraft for doing this.
• In the British panel game showWould I Lie to You?, panelists sometimes have a "Possession" which they must claim as their own (and convincingly argue that it really is theirs when it is not, or vice versa). A common justification is that this was alate-night drunken eBay purchase.
• Jay Leno used to do a segment on his show called"Stuff we found on eBay". He would present a collection of some of the most blood-stoppingly inane stuff on eBay at that time, and ask the audience if it got sold or not.

Music

• "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "eBay"

Web Comics

• xkcd withthis strip, which is later referenced in the mouseover text ofthis one.
• An earlySequential Art storyline hadPip getting carried away in an auction for a rare comic book issue, getting a winning bid of several thousand dollars that he couldn't afford to pay. In a case ofDid Not Do the Research, to pay for it he auctioned off Scarlet, a squirrel living with them, on eBay.

Western Animation

• The Amazing World of Gumball featuresJUNK

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