Bongs, Virginity and Other Stuff You Can’t Sell on eBay | Threat Level from Wired.com

Here’s some of the best of the banned:

A California woman (right) tried in January to sell her virginity, hoping to score $1 million, as Examiner.com put it, for her “vulva-centered mission” to pay for her education. She also said she was “hoping to meet a nice guy, too.” The 22-year-old Natalie Dylan of San Diego has received offers of up to $3.7 million, with the deal now being brokered by a Nevada brothel.

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Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick’s official federal-prison commissary card was barred in 2000, after bidding reached $1,000 two days into the auction. Company officials said government ID cards cannot be sold on eBay. Mitnick went on to offer it on a competing auction site.

An anonymous prankster posted an auction in December for the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, poking fun at then-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who is accused of trying to sell the plum appointment. The auction started at 99 cents, but was promptly pulled by eBay — presumably because Senate seats can only be sold behind closed doors.

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