Up for sale is the ultimate eBay collectible!!! In this auction, you are bidding on the first copy ever printed of Christopher Cihlar’s new book The Grilled Cheese Madonna and 99 Other of the Weirdest, Wackiest, Most Famous eBay Auctions Ever. All proceeds from this sale go to charity!!

This one of a kind collectible first book is signed by the author Christopher Cihlar and many of the eBay celebrities whose stories are included in the pages of the book. Signatures include Larry Star (aka The Wedding Dress Guy), Diana Duyser seller of one and only Grilled Cheese Madonna, John Freyer, the individual who in 2000 achieved international fame when he auctioned off everything he owned,  Tim Beavinson, the infamous seller known as beavinsons, renowned artist Bill Stoneham painter of The Hands That Bind (also known as The Haunted Painting), the seller of The Meaning of Life, the eBay seller known as the drunkensailor made famous by what has come to be known as The Beanie Baby Incident and many, many more!!!. This first copy also comes with a sticker of authenticity, stating that it was the very first book of the very first printing. The Grilled Cheese Madonna and 99 Other of the Weirdest, Wackiest, Most Famous eBay Auctions Ever  was just released for sale May 9th, 2006 by Broadway Books, a division of Random House,  and this is the FIRST book off the press!  

The Grilled Cheese Madonna and 99 Other of the Weirdest, Wackiest, Most Famous eBay Auctions Ever is a retrospective look at the most famous auctions ever to appear on eBay. From the man who tried to sell his kidney, to the woman who sold the right to name her unborn baby, for the first time ever all of the most famous eBay auctions are presented together in one place. 

Each of the 100 most famous auctions are humorously described and the reader will learn such fascinating details as how much a glass of bath water Christina Aguilera bathed in sold for, how many people checked in on the sale of a time machine and what the woman who put her husband's $75,000 Lotus up on eBay and sold it for less than a dollar was so mad about. In the book Christopher also offers tongue in cheek advice about how to create and possibly handsomely profit from your own famous sale. This wild adventure through the eBay and pop culture landscape chronicles the most famous sales that have helped to make eBay into the icon it is today.

All money from this sale benefits Mission Fish and the Points of Light Foundation. MissionFish (www.missionfish.org) helps nonprofits raise money on eBay. It enables eBay sellers to give proceeds from their sales to favorite nonprofits, and help nonprofits become eBay sellers too – turning The World’s Online Marketplace® into a new source of unrestricted funding. 

Founded in 1999, MissionFish has raised millions of dollars for a pool of more than 8,000 certified organizations. MissionFish has received awards from the Yale School of Management and Social Enterprise Alliance for its innovative approach, and is operated as a service for the nonprofit sector of the Points of Light Foundation.

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THIS TRULY IS A ONE OF A KIND COLLECTIBLE FOR THE eBay AUCTION FAN!!!