EBay Eccentric: Paparazzi Warz

A little over a year ago I pitched the Vancouver 24 Hours editor on the idea of a column concerning the latest auction oddities listed on Ebay. If you’re reading this now, he said yes.
Let me tell you about another concept I pitched a few months later but, first, here’s a little history.
My dad was a union leader and so when he was home, the TV was always on some channel talking politics. Thanks to being denied sports, cartoons and entertainment, I learned early on to despise politics. The other half of the time he would be gone, attending union meetings all over the province, so I started to despise unions, too.

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EBay auctioning off African 'orphan' ragdolls

Every fashionista worth her salt has already got the Birkin bag and the purse-sized chihuahua -- and now, thanks to EBay, she can afford to adopt her very own "African orphan" just like Madonna and Angelina Jolie.
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Yale's stolen Lewis Carroll letter surfaces on eBay

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --A rare letter penned by author Lewis Carroll in 1890 recently surfaced on the Internet auction site eBay, where the seller detailed everything from its beautiful signature to its distinctive purple ink.

To a Yale University librarian, however, it all sounded a bit too familiar for comfort.
Now, police at the Ivy League university are investigating when and how the valuable letter was purloined from its Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The search for the culprit has taken police down a proverbial rabbit hole as they try to track the letter's path from Yale to a Utah-based collector, who purchased it from another seller without knowing it had been stolen.

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