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College student buys Yoshitomo Nara ashtray at thrift store for $10, flips it for $2,860 on eBay
- Terrelle Brown, a 22-year-old student at Wheaton College in Illinois, bought a Yoshitomo Nara ashtray at a Goodwill store for $10 and received a 30,000 percent profit after selling it on eBay.
- “I was shaking with excitement because I knew the potential of it,” Brown said. “I hopped in the car and started looking at eBay prices, and I was like, ‘This is unreal.’”
- The art piece, which is a 2002 Nara original titled “Too Young To Die,” features a seemingly indignant girl smoking a cigarette in the middle of the ashtray.
- Brown checked to see if his item was authentic by comparing it and its packaging to other Nara ashtrays being sold online. He listed it on eBay and managed to sell it for $2,860.
A TikTok user was left speechless after he bought a Yoshitomo Nara ashtray at a Goodwill store for $10 and received a 30,000 percent profit by selling it on eBay.
In a TikTok posted on April 17, Terrelle Brown, a 22-year-old student at Wheaton College in Illinois, shared that he received an eBay notification about the ashtray in the middle of his class. “Feel like I’ll regret this one in a few years,” he wrote in his post’s caption.
Amazon and eBay Think It’s Perfectly OK To Sell This Racist ‘Chinese Boy’ Costume
Earlier today, Twitter user @snowflakenest called out Amazon UK on Twitter for the following costume that was for sale.
Is this ok with you @AmazonUK? Going viral in Chinese groups on Facebook (and not in a good way!). @NextShark @NeeHaomagazine #racism #Chinese pic.twitter.com/xke1PATSm0
There’s a Downside to Being a Woman Who Sells Things on eBay
Women don’t just pay more than men for the same products — they also earn less than men for selling the same products on eBay.
A new study published in the journal Science Advances finds that female sellers on the e-commerce site “receive a smaller number of bids, and lower final prices, than do equally qualified men.”
Kanye West’s Sold Out Adidas Sneakers Now Cost Up to $10,000 on Ebay
As with any pair of Kanye West sneakers, once they sell out, expect to see them posted with jaw-dropping prices on Ebay shortly after.
Kanye West and Adidas released the Yeezy Boost 350 on June 27 in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Unsurprisingly, they were in almost under an hour. The initial retail price for the shoes was $200; a quick search on Ebay will show at least a couple of overzealous retailers asking for up to $10,000, neither of which currently have any takers.
This Ebay Listing For a Rejected Wedding Dress is the Saddest Thing You’ll Read all Day
What’s been dubbed one of the saddest Ebay listings ever has been making the internet rounds recently.
The listing was for a white Diane von Fursternberg dress to be worn by a bride for her wedding — until the wedding was apparently called off. To make matters worse, its item description was written from the personal viewpoint of the dress:
Vintage Apple Jacket Now Costs $10,000 on Ebay After Drake Wore One at WWDC
When Drake took the stage at the Apple WWDC 2015 event yesterday to talk about the much-anticipated Apple Music, it was what he wore that garnered the most attention. The “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” rapper wore an old Apple varsity jacket that immediately caused a social media uproar centered around where to acquire the garment.
The vintage wool jacket with leather sleeves worn by Drake is emblazoned with Apple’s old logo, a rainbow-colored apple. The rainbow logo was used by Apple from 1977-1998, and the jacket was reportedly given to Apple employees some time during that period.
Ronda Rousey Is Selling the Honda Accord She Used to Live in on Ebay
Would you pay $14,200.00 for a 2005 Honda Accord that has 156,098 miles on it, needs a new transmission and is missing two front hubcabs?
Probably not. Especially when KelleyBlueBook says that the fair purchase price on the Honda is $6,104.
A Plastic Bag of Air from a Kanye West Concert Almost Sold for $60,000 on Ebay
Kanye West can sell anything he wants, and his fans will buy it.
Earlier, we reported that West’s new sneakers for Adidas were being sold on eBay for $3,000. Now, apparently, all West has to do is breathe, and it will be worth $60,000. That’s right. A bag of West’s air from a Yeezus concert was being sold on eBay, attracting 90 bidders who skyrocketed the starting price of $5 to $60,000 last Friday.
