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I do not think RanusApe's intention was to spam or promote anything. In fact, I think he posed a valid question, which he stated as:

On Ebay, is this sort of thing common?

I do not think he was trying to promote Napster or the NapsterGirl or her uhm, undergarnments or even ebay, but was rather simply asking if selling strange items like the this one was a common thing for ebay.

No harm in this, I think.

And to answer your question:

I use ebay fairly regularly. In fact, I signed up a few years ago through this site in an attempt to support the forums. Anyway, ever since, I've grown to like the auction site because it really is a good place to find some hard-to-find goodies online. Plus, they have such a wide variety that is it possible to find just about anything on there.

That said--yes, it really doesn't come as a surprise to me that someone on ebay would be auctioning someone's used undergarnments, especially if they have been worn by a "celebrity." I think this is not only gross, but stupid, too. Why would anyone buy things like this? Celebrity as she may be, she's still a person and I would be terribly paranoid to buy someone else's underwear. I mean, come on. For what? I doubt that whoever buys it is actually going to wear it, though. They are just going to add them to their Celebrity Underwear collection, probably.

But you have to remember that ebay is not the sole culprit for the sales of these bizarre things--the actual people that auction them are just as . . . strange and pervertedly psycho, as are the ones that bid on them.

So quite frankly, yes: these sorts of things are quite common for ebay. I remember that not too long ago someone was selling a "ghost" inside a jar and someone else was selling "nothing" but the box they shipped the "nothing" in. This may not be as gross and creepy as the auction you stumbled on, but it's just as insanely strange.

Bottom line: ebay is a strange strange place.