Some of the more unusual items to be put on eBay include:

• Aug. 26, 1999: A human kidney is offered on eBay. Before the auction
  is taken down, bids reach $5.7 million. All sorts of human body parts
  have been put up for auction - and taken down by eBay, which prohibits
  such sales - including livers and sperm.

• Feb. 8, 2001: Adam Burtle of Seattle sells his soul on eBay for $400.
  EBay has a policy of not allowing souls to be sold, but Burtle's offer
  was undetected until after bidding closed. Burtle is suspended from
  the site.

• May 25, 2001: Levi's goes shopping on eBay and picks up a pair of its
  own jeans - made in the 1880s - for $46,532.

• June 23, 2001: Bob Dylan's boyhood home in Duluth, Minn., sells on
  eBay for $94,600.

• Other properties such as a Santa Cruz, Calif.,
  apartment complex and a 100-year-old Kentucky jail have been offered
  in the past couple of years.

• One of the largest items ever sold was a World War II submarine sold
  by a small town in New England that decided it did not need the
  historical relic anymore.