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It can be a useful way of averting [[No Export for You]], to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] and - as with everything else on the web - helping indulge your [[Fetish Fuel]]. You cannot, however, sell people or weapons. We've tried.
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* [[All Animation Is Disney]]: Either because the sellers are genuinely unaware, or because [[Money, Dear Boy|they think they'll sell more]] if they claim their old VHS copies of [[Don 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.
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{{examples|eBay in media:}}
== Film ==
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Sheldon sells a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' item on eBay. This is, however, a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], as Blizzard would have banned Sheldon and the buyer from ''Warcraft'' for doing this.▼
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': In a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], one villain tries to sell Harry on eBay.▼
* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'': Sam intends to sell his great-grandfather's glasses on eBay (thanks to a [[Product Placement]] deal for the film).
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtlK7sn0JQ eBay]"▼
* In the British panel game show ''[[Would 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 a [[What Did I Do Last Night?|late-night drunken]] eBay purchase.▼
* ''[[Xkcd]]'' with [http://xkcd.com/325/ this strip], which is later referenced in the mouseover text of [http://xkcd.com/576/ this one].▼
* [[Jay Leno]] used to do a segment on his show called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"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.▼
* [[Joe Hill]]'s novel ''[[Heart-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".▼
* In ''[[Finding 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 of [[Did Not Do the Research]]
* In ''[[Toy 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 of [[Did Not Do the Research]], one villain tries to sell Harry on eBay.
▲* [[Joe Hill]]'s novel ''[[Heart-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".
* ''[[Posleen War Series|Yellow Eyes]]'' has something of a [[Running Gag]] about how it's amazing what you can find on eBay, including an alien medical device used to build a physical body for an [[AI]] and a mate for a [[Heel Face Turn|formerly hostile]] [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Posleen]] advising the humans after the war.
== Live-Action TV ==
▲* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Sheldon sells a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' item on eBay. This is, however, a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], as Blizzard would have banned Sheldon and the buyer from ''Warcraft'' for doing this.
▲* In the British panel game show ''[[Would 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 a [[What Did I Do Last Night?|late-night drunken]] eBay purchase.
▲* [[Jay Leno]] used to do a segment on his show called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"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 "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtlK7sn0JQ eBay]"
== Web Comics ==
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* An early ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' storyline had [[Funny Animal|Pip]] 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 of [[Did 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]]'' features [https://web.archive.org/web/20130113084152/http://twitpic.com/6720u0/full JUNK]
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