Have you ever gone to a yard sale and marveled at the dubious treasures on display? Imagine seeing a homemade deer-poop paperweight for ten dollars, a lonely left boot, a belt with a glass eye embedded in its buckle. It would never be possible to find such fantastic oddities all in one thrift shop or garage. But, all these objects do exist and have been sold on eBay. Now these items and many, many more like them are collected for your viewing pleasure in this hilarious “museum” of priceless eBay artifacts.
Found on eBay, published by Universe/Rizzoli (2002) features 101 bizarre objects from the online auction site, along with my equally bizarre letters to the sellers, and their responses. The book was featured in the LA Times, on CNN (see below), MSNBC, ABC News, and many other publications and radio shows worldwide.
After gawking at Marc Hartzman’s new book, it’s hard to get excited about the latest rash of “amazing” discoveries being trumpeted in the news. So what if researchers just uncovered a 7-million-year-old human skull, a 500-year-old drawing by Michelangelo and the shipwreck of JFK’s fabled PT-109 boat?
Such treasures pale in comparison to the artifacts unearthed by Hartzman in “Found on EBay” (Universe Publishing), an encyclopedia of weird knickknacks sold on the Internet auction site.
– Roy Rivenburg, LA Times, July 25, 2002
Available on Amazon, or contact me for a signed copy.
