eBay-related stories
Posted Jun 23rd 2009 7:13PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: The Simpsons, Web, Reality-Free

This wooden
Simpsons couch can be yours for only $5000 or so!
It's one of 1500 displays that were sent to movie theaters when
The Simpsons Movie came out. Now
it's being sold on eBay. You can either bid on it or buy it now for the above price. Might be kind of fun to have the show's couch in your living room next to your own couch.
[via
MTV]
Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:04PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Have you ever had a fantasy in which you had lunch with your favorite television celebrity? Well, if you have the cash on hand,
now's your chance. Celebrity lunches up for auction include Jon Hamm, Nathan Fillion and Kevin Smith, among others (Patrick Duffy? He's still around?). All proceeds benefit the Adrienne Shelly Foundation for female filmmakers.
Honestly, if you did participate in the auction and win one of the lunches, what would you say to the person? I've been tongue-tied in front of celebrities before, when I was much younger. Would you simply ask how they're doing? Would you try to promote that script you've been working on for year? Would you have to buy the lunch, or would the celebrity pay?
Continue reading Would you like some Hamm with your lunch?
Posted Feb 17th 2009 10:29AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Web, Reality-Free

Did you ever watch
Late Night with Conan O'Brien and wish you had that Gen. Eisenhower coffee mug that just sat oh so daintily on the cusp of your television to decorate your home decor?
First of all, if you said yes, you have the gayest living room decor since police raided Paul Reubens' home.
Second of all, here's your chance. Conan's mug and other pieces of the
Late Night set have been stripped for parts and put on auction for
the House to Home Project, a charity that helps families who have lost their homes to natural disasters.
Continue reading How much would you pay for Conan's Eisenhower mug?
Posted Dec 18th 2008 2:12PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free

Last night, Scarlett Johansson
blew her nose on Jay Leno's show. Today, it's for sale. What came out of it, I mean, not the nose itself.
Johansson has put the tissue and its, um, contents
on eBay to raise money for a charity she supports, USA Harvest. Johansson says that she got a cold from Samuel L. Jackson, one of her costars in the new movie
The Spirit, which opens on Christmas and looks crazy as hell.
Isn't there some sort of rule on eBay that can't sell bodily fluids or body parts or anything like that? Doesn't sound like the most sanitary thing to buy and ship cross country and store in your home, even if she did put it in a sandwich bag. This could be the worst trend to hit the world of celebrity in years. I don't want to own Danny DeVito's toenails or Alyson Hannigan's earwax or Rainn Wilson's tears.
Posted Sep 11th 2008 1:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Survivor, Web

Earlier this week we told you about the
diaries that
Survivor contestant Nicole Delma was selling on eBay. The listing was taken down suddenly and now we know why:
CBS asked her to take it down (this has been confirmed by CBS).
The bidding for the diaries somehow, some way, got up to over $2000, then CBS called and asked Delma to stop the sale because it was in breach of the contract she signed. Delma thinks that CBS might have been a little antsy about certain parts of the diaries where Delma describes scenes of the hit reality show being staged and even scenes being re-shot. Of course, this news is nothing new, we've heard talk that certain scenes on
Survivor (and other reality show) are re-staged or re-shot for the camera. The only comment CBS would release about the controversy is that they thinking the diaries are "boring" and that they asked her nicely to stop the auction.
Her solution? She's going to release a "novel," because there's nothing in her CBS contract that can stop her from releasing a work of fiction. That's actually kinda clever. I side with CBS on this though, if she did indeed sign a contract that stops her from revealing behind the scenes info.
Posted Sep 9th 2008 2:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Survivor, Web

Wouldn't it be great if a famous
Survivor contestant like Richard Hatch or Tina Wesson or...um...one of the other people that won the top prize (Fantasia? Omarosa?) on the show kept a diary during the show and was now going to let fans of the show read it? You'd be able to see what the audition process was like, what it was like staying on the island for over a month, get some cool behind the scenes info about the show. Wouldn't that be great?
Well, that's not available, but until last night you could have read the diaries of Nicole Delma, a contestant from the 2003 "Pearl Island" season of the show. She didn't win the top prize, in fact, she was voted off in the very first episode. But still, those diaries must be really interesting!
Continue reading Survivor contestant puts diaries on eBay for some reason
Posted May 2nd 2008 5:23PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Web, The Office, Reality-Free
Who saw last night's episode of The Office? Were you mesmerized as Dwight swindled Andy into taking a lower offer for his Nissan Xterra? Were you jealous and wished that you could do the same thing? Well now's your chance... sort of. Although, by the time this auction is over, you may have some issues flipping it for a higher price like Dwight did.
Our sister site Autoblog stumbled onto a great find earlier today - the actual SUV used in the episode "Did I Stutter?" is up for auction on eBay. The Xterra in question is owned by one of the studio hairstylists on The Office. The car had been used as a prop car - the car Andy "owned" on the show. Hoping to capitalize on the car's newfound fame, the owner has put it up for sale. To entice Office fans, some extras (not furnished by the dealer) are included:
Continue reading Make a bid on Dwight's Nissan Xterra
Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Doctor Who

A fellow named Simon White is
selling his Tardis on eBay. Why? Jesus.
Okay, maybe that's not the best way to put it. According to White, he has been a hardcore
Who fan for most of his life, going as far as spending years and years building a K-9, cyberman and Tardis in addition to collecting figurines. After a lot of troubles with bipolar disorder and alcoholism in his adult years, he found God and ceased his self-destructive ways. Despite claiming that his fandom was the only thing holding him together in his rough times, White is now dumping his
Who love and toys, calling it a symbol of the "greatest lie that Satan ever told." He'll be selling his entire collection of goodies, worth an estimated £7000, in magazines and on eBay.
Continue reading Man too good for Doctor Who sells Tardis
Posted Feb 18th 2008 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Law and Order, Daytime, In the Limelight, Celebrities

This season,
Law and Order was looking for a way to get some new energy and interest in the long-running NBC Emmy-winning series, so on the judicial end of the show, they promoted Sam Waterson's Jack McCoy to DA and cast Linus Roache as Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter. Roache is one of those familiar faces that you've seen on other shows, maybe a movie or two, but here on
Law and Order he's making you sit up and take notice. At least that's how it is for me. After watching the first two new episodes when the show returned recently, I wanted to know more about this guy. For starters, why did he remind me of a young Bobby Kennedy?
Well, it turns out that Linus Roache played Robert Kennedy in the mini-series,
RFK. The Kennedy connection was even alluded to in last week's episode; at the end of the show, after McCoy had to defend his decision to prosecute overzealous New York City cops by taking the stand in open court, Roache's character, Cutter, gives him a tie pin that once belonged to RFK. With the last line of the show, Cutter says, "I found it on EBay."
Continue reading Law and Order's Linus Roache: In the Limelight
Posted Jan 3rd 2008 1:42PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Web, Celebrities
I'm not sure if I should make a joke here about this or just let it go because there's actually a serious reason why this is happening.
Former Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman is selling his pants on eBay. He needs the money for his regular dialysis treatments. They're Gap athletic pants, khaki colored, with blue, green, and white stripes and Coleman has signed it. So far the bidding is up to a whopping ... um ... $51.00, which I don't think is what he was looking for. The bidding ends on January 7.
Sometimes I wonder about stars that were on popular shows decades ago but now find themselves looking for work. Can't they find something else to do in entertainment (if they don't want to or can't get something in another field)? It always makes me feel uneasy when stars resort to stuff like this.
[via TV Tattle]
Posted Dec 21st 2007 2:41PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Industry, Retro Squad
Back in April we told you about the sale of one of the four original Trans-Ams used in the filming of the original Knight Rider series. Now, another original KITT car has been put up for sale, and this time it's on eBay.
The black 1984 Pontiac has been put up for sale to satisfy a large amount of debts incurred by a slain real estate developer whose murder last year was unsolved. According to creditors, Andrew Kissel owed somewhere along the lines of $30 million dollars. Wow.
Continue reading Another Knight Rider car is up for sale
Posted Aug 27th 2007 2:43PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, News, Celebrities, Talk Show
So network news anchors Katie Couric and Brian Williams both signed Stephen Colbert's wrist cast, which is now up for bid at eBay. But why didn't the other network anchor sign it, ABC's Charles Gibson?
That's the question some people are asking this week. Both Couric and Williams played along and signed the cast, which Colbert got from an injury back in June. Colbert has made the cast part of his "character's" storyline. Williams even agreed to wear a wrist bracelet on the NBC Nightly News and lived up to his promise last week.
Continue reading Charles Gibson didn't sign Colbert's cast
Posted Aug 23rd 2007 10:22AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities

After tonight's episode of
The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert will put his cast up for auction on eBay. Colbert
broke his wrist in June while running around his set before the show began. The proceeds from the sale will go to the
Yellow Ribbon Fund for injured military service members and their families as they recuperate at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center.
The Yellow Ribbon Fund is a favorite of Colbert's. He has already used his cast to raise money for the injured soldiers and their families by selling 'WristStrong' bracelets, a spoof of Lance Armstrong (and Nike's) LiveStrong yellow bracelets that raise money for cancer research. By the way, if you can't afford Stephen's cast, you can probably still afford one of his 'WristStrong' bracelets, which are for sale
on his website.
Colbert's cast is signed by a wide variety of political and news figures: Nancy Pelosi, Tony Snow, Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Bill O'Reilly, and Michael Bloomberg.
Posted Jul 25th 2007 12:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: The Simpsons, Web
So, back in May I told you about a limited number of Simpsons-style XBoxes being given away at promotional events in anticipation of the upcoming movie. If you weren't lucky enough to snag one of the yellow consoles with Homer's visage at one of these events, you can try bidding on one that recently popped up on eBay. Just bring a lot of cash, 'cause the bidding, as I type this sentence, is at $1,900.
Continue reading Rare Simpsons Xbox on eBay
Posted Jun 7th 2007 5:43PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Daytime, Web, Celebrities, Game Show
Now that Bob Barker has retired, it's time for his microphone to retire too! We certainly don't want someone like Rosie O'Donnell or Mario Lopez using it, right?
One of the mics that Barker used on The Price Is Right is up for sale on eBay. Right now it's at $6,700 and there have been 51 bids. It comes with a nice letter of authenticity written and signed by Barker himself. The money from the sale goes to help the United Activists for Animal Rights.
The cord that comes with it looks to be approximately 6 miles long. I think one of us should buy it and put on our own Price Is Right in our home.
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