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Shows up in bubble wrap<br />
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What I bought on eBay."|[["Weird Al" Yankovic]], ''eBay''}}
 
[http://www.eBay.com eBay], the web's [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]]. Although it acts primarily as an [[Auction]]-based website, some sellers use "Buy It Now!" buttons allowing you to instantly purchase the item at "bargain" prices.
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* ''[[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 (Filmfilm)|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 (Webcomic)|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 Onon 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.
* ''[[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.
* An early ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|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.
* [[The Amazing World of Gumball]] features [http://twitpic.com/6720u0/full JUNK]
 
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