You Can Sell Almost Anything on eBay – Even the Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe

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August 18, 2009
Op Ed By the ZippyCart Shopping Carts Content Team

Online auction site eBay has long been home to people selling some of the oddest things. It might be even more unusual that there is almost a buyer for all of these weird items. Now if you ever wanted to sleep with a Hollywood icon then eBay is providing the chance. Ebay has an auction currently running for a burial plot atop one that is occupied by Marilyn Monroe. Long time Beverly Hills resident Elsie Poncher became a widow in 1986 when her husband Richard Poncher passed away. As part of his dying wishes Richard was buried face down in his crypt as he did not want to be upside down over Marilyn Monore. Elsie has now decided to move her Richard out and auction off the crypt which opened for bidding at $500,000 last week and as of 8:30 AM PST today it was just over $4,600,000 with about a week left to go. With her auction winnings, Poncher intends to pay off the mortgage to her home in Beverly Hills.

Marilyn Monroe may have never thought she would be as popular in the afterlife but celebrity seems to live on forever in our culture. Numerous online businesses strictly focus on selling celebrity related memorabilia, and websites like TMZ.com make money from the content they create about the celebrities they film. Just to prove to you that this is not the weirdest thing auctioned off on eBay, we found a few other celebrity auctions to make you laugh. In 2000 Justin Timberlake’s partially-eaten French toast sold for $1,025. In 2005 Britney Spear’s chewed bubble gum sold for $511.04. Finally in 2004 Three tablespoons of water from a cup used by Elvis Presley sold for $455.