The 10 Most Expensive Items Ever Sold On eBay
10. Bandai Stadium Events
Sold for: $41,300 , Year: 2010
Before Wii Sports and Wii Fitness there was Stadium Events. Released in the U.S. in 1987, it was one of two games made to use Nintendo’s short-lived Family Fun Fitness mat, a mat on which gamers could use as a control by running on it. Stadium Events failed to do well, so Bandai yanked if off shelves and rebranded it World Class Track Meet.Apparently, this made it one of the most rare video games of all time, allowing a guy who had a copy sitting in his basement for 20 years to sell it on eBay for $41,300. Win.
9. Barry Bonds 715th Home Run Ball
Sold for: $220,100 ,Year: 2006
Before Marc Ecko bought his record-breaking 765th home run ball for $750,000, Barry Bond’s 715th homerun ball, the one he hit to put him in second place on the all-time home runs list, was sold for the sizably smaller amount of $220,100. We hear the ball was left as-is with no asterisk or planes for space travel.
8. Zagami Martian Meteorite
Sold for: $450,000 ,Year: 2006
The meteorite market is a big one. We just didn’t know it was this big. The largest piece of the Zagami Martian meteorite that landed in Nigeria when it fell to Earth in 1962, was put up for sale by its owners on eBay. At the time it was considered one of the most valuable space rocks on the planet. Before the meteorite was even sold, planetariums were begging the future buyers to make available for loan.
7. Samuel Allsopp's Arctic Ale Circa 1852
Sold for: $503,300 ,Year: 2007
If this story teaches you anything, let it be that you must pay attention to detail, lest you pay a dear price for a mistake. That’s what happened to the man that first put this bottle of Samuel Allsopp’s Artic Ale up for auction on eBay. The Artic Ale was brewed specifically for Sir Edward Belcher’s 1852 Artic Expedition. It was sealed and kept in pristine quality with a handwritten note that explained the history of the bottle and brew. The original seller misspelled the name of the name of the brewer, only threw up three accompanying images, and wound up selling the bottle for a measly $304 to another eBay seller. The buyer turned around and re-listed the Ale with more images and a correct title, and sold it for $503,300.
6. 2003 Enzo Ferrari
Sold for: $650,000 Year: 2004
The 12-cylinder race-car-for-the-street was built in honor of the company’s founder, Enzo Ferrari. Only 400 Enzos were built with all of them being sold before any rolled off the production line. In order to buy an Enzo today, you’re looking at a minimum sticker of $1 million. However, a lucky chap in the UK was able to pick one up for a little more than half of that, and was considered a straight-up steal by car collectors.
5. 1909 Honus Wagner Baseball Card
Sold for: $1.265 million Year: 2000
The American Tobacco Company (ATC) designed and sold a John Peter “Honus” Wagner card as part of its T206 series from 1909 to 1911. As the story goes, ATC did so without the consent of the Pittsburg Pirates’ player who did not want his image used to sell cigarettes. In light of the conflict, ATC cut the run of his card short, selling only 57 to the general public, making it one of the most valuable baseball cards. Michael Gidwitz, an eBay auctioneer, picked up one of the cars for a thrifty $600,000 and managed to flip it for $1,265,000.
4. Albert, Texas
Sold for: $2.5 million Year: 2007
When people say you can buy anything on eBay, they’re not joking. In 2004, the five-person town of Albert, Texas as put up for sale on eBay. An insurance broker by the name of Bobby Cave scooped up the town for the cheap price of $216,000. After investing another half a million into the ghost town, Cave put it on eBay in 2007 and sold it for $2.5 million.
3. Lunch With Warren Buffett
Sold for: $2.63 million Year: 2010
They say time is money. If you’re name is Warren Buffett, your time is very, very expensive. A couple years ago, the third wealthiest man in the world decided to hold an auction where the proceeds would benefit the San Francisco-based Glide Foundation. What was he auctioning off? Himself. For $2,630,000, an anonymous bidder and seven of his friends won the opportunity to attend lunch with the legendary investor at NYC’s Smith & Wollensky steakhouse. Big money talk.
2. Gulfstream II
Sold for: $4.9 million Year: 2001
eBay should thank Tyler Jet for helping put them on the auctioning map. Back when people were still hesitant to spend big money on the new site, the Texas-based jet charting company decided to auction off one of its Gulfstream IIs on eBay. The private jet managed to go for $4,900,000 and helped kick off eBays then-new aviation section. What’s funny is that you can now get a G2 for around $1 million.
1. Frank Mulder's Gigayacht
Sold for: $168 million Year: 2006
If we were planking on billions, we would do our auctioning at an accredited auction house, but what do we know? Obviously less than Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich who bought the Frank Mulder-designed 405-foot yacht for a record setting $168,000,000. The megayacht featured 10 multi-level VIP rooms, eight guest rooms, a movie theater, and a helicopter pad. The auction actually ended at $85,000,000, but that was only the 50% down payment required by Fort Lauderdale’s 4Yacht brokerage firm.
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