Most Expensive Item on eBay

Written by: tom Filed Under: Luxury, Travel, Vehicles, World on February 1st, 2007

Since the inception of eBay in September 1995, the online auction site grown quickly into one of the largest online marketplaces, based around the idea that lets eBay just be the auction house for individuals selling things. People buy or sell just about anything on the auction site including Homes, Mega-Yachts, and luxury automobiles, some of the most expensive items on the site, with prices needing up to eight digits.

The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a 405-foot, steel mega-yacht (marketed as a Gigayacht) auctioned by the Fort. Lauderdale, FL based company, 4Yacht and designed by naval architect Frank Mulder of Mulder Design. The yacht was offered up for auction on eBay November 3rd, 2006 with a “buy now” price of $85 million. The price paid your 50% deposit of the full purchase price of $168,000,000.00 total. The sale of the most expensive eBay item coincided with the 46th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Craig Timm, President of 4Yacht Inc, is a strong advocate of using eBay as an additional marketing tool for his company competing in a global market.

4Yacht is at it again, as of January 2007, they are currently auctioning off another one of their Giga-yachts for a deposit of $99 million. Some of the astounding features of the yacht include: a range 16,000 NM, a helicopter garage, and fourteen multi-level VIP suites with panoramic views. If sold on eBay, this year’s edition of the yacht will hold the title of the most expensive item on eBay.


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14 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by A.D 19th September, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    wow thats one expensive tug boat

  2. Posted by Thomas 3rd August, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    lmao, this is one yacht i would like to ride

  3. Posted by Bronte 18th September, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Who has that kind of money hanging around? “Oh, darling, what on earth are we going to do with that spare $168 million hanging around?”
    “Oh, I don’t know…look on eBay, see if they’re selling a 405 foot mega-yacht or something.”

  4. Posted by Cassandra 6th February, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    They really do have everything on google…

  5. Posted by Posted by Posted by 27th June, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    HOLY yud think they will buy it for $168,000,000.00?

  6. Posted by jesus 11th August, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    i rode on that beast of a boat for only 5oo grand(: it werent all that

  7. Posted by jorge 15th November, 2009 at 12:13 am

    wow im pretty sure ppl thet would buy that are stupid and do not have the right to have that much money when there are so many homeless ppl in the us thats just selfishness. !!!!!!!!

  8. Posted by nathan 5th December, 2009 at 10:56 am

    they do have everything on google i was just curios

  9. Posted by jimmy 14th December, 2009 at 9:00 am

    lol nathan you’re right, i googled this too. google can i own and it’ll say “can i own a canadian” also its not selfish to buy something for yourself. Do you own a TV? I’m sure that someone with that much money donates to charity.

  10. Posted by James 19th January, 2010 at 11:29 pm

    Jorge, I’m sure 70% of the homeless people are just to lazy to find a job.. That shouldn’t be rewarded!

  11. Posted by ConsicousWriter 20th January, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    Quit whining about those people buying expensive things, so what? You would tell me that if you had that much money you would donate to charity? Don’t BS yourself, the modern philanthropist does it so noone sees that he donated, because then they get prosecuted for tax evasion on some newspaper.

  12. Posted by Matthew 2nd February, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    Jorge, don’t blame the individual when it is the system that is at fault. The fact that we live in a society where an individual can make that much money is the real problem. A person can’t reasonably be expected to give away more than a certain percentage of their wealth.

    There should be some price cap on how much annual income a person can make–or at least some sort of formula (like one based on an estimate of how much that individual contributes to the GDP). People shouldn’t be able to get so much more out of the system than they actually put in. It must be possible to create income restrictions that don’t interfere with the motivation to get ahead. No one needs a $168 million yacht.

  13. Posted by brian p. 11th February, 2010 at 8:55 am

    jorge and matthew, i dont agree with anything u two have to say, our family company makes around 800,000,000 a year, and out of that much we donate around 100,000,000 a year to charities, i understand u dnt make near that much, but were donating almost 15 percent of our net income, how much do u donate to charity huh? if u made 30,000 a year do u go n donate 3,200 a year to charity? i dont think so, so don’t be blaming us saying that we dont do our part, because we make a big impact in this world, just this month our company donated 150,000,000 to haiti, so don’t try and judge us calling us greedy as if you know us, btw we own an 80 million dollar gigayacht, and we worked hard building our company from the ground up, id say we deserve everything that we own. go make something of yourself and stop trying to blame us for it.

  14. Posted by Sam Jones 26th February, 2010 at 7:24 am

    i think it is fantastic

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