Nine of the weirdest things ever sold on eBay

From supposedly holy cheese toasties to haunted bath toys, we've rounded up some very strange eBay auctions.

There are many weird and wonderful things on sale on auction site eBay but these items are very unusual indeed...

Cheese toastie with the Virgin Mary’s face on it

Would you buy a 10-year-old sandwich? Would it help if it had the Virgin Mary’s face on it?

Of course you wouldn’t, but Golden Palace Internet Casino would.

The internet casino put up $28,000 (around £18,600) for the sandwich which has apparently never gone mouldy. Golden Palace used the sandwich to raise money for charity while allowing visitors to learn of its ‘mystical power’.

The woman who sold the sandwich said that it had brought her luck, including winning $70,000 (around £46,500) at a casino near her Florida home.

Just to be safe, she stated in the advert that the sandwich was “not intended for consumption”.

A Dorito shaped like the Pope’s hat

When munching his way through a bag of Doritos in 2005, one seller came across a tortilla chip which looked uncannily like the Pope’s mitre. It was bought by none other than the Golden Palace Internet Casino (who may have needed publicity at the time) for $1,209 (around £803).

The meaning of life

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A philosophical individual thought he might have found the new meaning of life. Starting the bidding at $0.01, it went for $3.26 (around £2.17).

The curious theory has never actually been revealed by either the seller or the winning bidder.

Haunted rubber duck

Someone posted a haunted rubber duck with the power to possess children. The seller stated that he would “not be responsible for the duck after shipping”, nor would he help to explain its “unusual mystique”.

The duck sold after a week for a princely $107.50 (about £71).

A single cornflake

A student from Coventry University sold a cornflake for an impressive mark-up of £1.20. It went just before eBay requested him to take the advert down because, of all things, it didn’t display a Best Before date.

Half-eaten French toast

Singer and actor Justin Timberlake left some uneaten French toast after doing an interview at a New York radio station. A DJ decided to put it up on eBay where it fetched $1,025 (about £681) from a 19-year-old fan.

Broken laser pen

Fun fact: this was the first thing that was ever sold on eBay. It sold for $14.83 (a little under £10) to a “collector of broken laser pointers”.

A photo of an Xbox

One unlucky student from Nottingham paid £450 for a photo of an Xbox for his four-year-old son. The advert notice said ‘Xbox One Fifa Day One Edition, Photo Brand New UK 2012’ which is more than a little misleading.

To add insult to injury the seller wrote ‘thank you for the purchase’ on the back.

The 19-year-old was refunded by eBay and the auction website said it would take action against the seller. However, his family weren’t quite so sympathetic, choosing to laugh at him instead.

Rejected Brussels sprouts

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Dan Allam from Herefordshire auctioned uneaten Brussels sprouts off TWICE and gave the money to the Make A Wish Foundation, raising £99.99 for two sprouts in 2012 and £34 for five in 2013.

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