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=== Tropes on eBay: ===
* [[Air Guitar]]: Yes, some really do get sold.
* [[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 Ninety Nine Cents]]
* [[Auction]]: The whole point.
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* [[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 old [[World 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. Why [[What Did I Do Last Night?|steal 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.
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* ''[[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 (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 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.
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