Monsters under your bed? Yeah, me too. Scary, isn’t it? I hate going to sleep at night! You and I both need one of these six-foot Link statues for protection. Unfortunately, there’s only one for sale on eBay right now. You can have it, I guess. I’ll wait for the next one.

The Link Statue stands almost six feet tall and weighs almost 80 pounds. It ships from Australia, which is going to cost a damn fortune at $500 – unless you’re in Australia, then it’ll cost $200 to $300. That’s in Australian dollars, too, so to the US it’d be $437.25, which is still too rich for my blood – monsters under the bed or not.

The auction ends Thursday afternoon and is already up over $650 (US). I’m guessing the guy who’s selling it has a serious girlfriend now. That’s gotta be the reason. This would be one of the last things I’d sell if I needed extra money.

Nintendo Zelda Link statue [eBay via TechEBlog]

[via BB Gadgets]

Seeing this reminds me just how spot-on Fallout 3 got its look and feel. The retro look of this kit is amazing, and the fact that it’s in mint condition — well! Unfortunately I bet it’ll be passed from collector to collector at varying prices, nothing more than a commodity at this point. According to the seller:

THIS SET FLIES OFF THE RARITY SCALE BY GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!

Alas, no kid will ever get to crack it open and start checking the cat with the Geiger counter. Maybe that’s a good thing, since the kit comes with RADIOACTIVE ORE SAMPLES.

[via Classic Vintage Toys]

It seems that someone actually placed a bid on the $1.1 million Xbox signed by Sarah Palin but now the listing isn’t there. Chances are that eBay pulled it.

Today’s bargin at 1SaleaDay is one of these kits for only $9.99. That’s a mighty fine deal. Hell, the lights generally cost more than that. The shipping is $6, so you’ll end up spending $16 in the end. But if you’re trying to sell your Grandma’s crap on Ebay to pay rent this month, it might be worth the added cost to ensure those nick-knacks look their best.

You just never know what you’re going to get when buying wares off eBay. You could be purchasing a box of rocks or a used government hard drive that still has security polices, blueprints of facilities, and government employee’s social security numbers. You just never know, eh?

Similar data was recently found on drives that where scrutinized for sensitive data purchased by three universities. Of the 300 used disks purchased in this test, 34% had personal, commercial, and government info on them. One drive even had the test launch procedures of Lockheed Martin’s THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) ground to air missile defense system used to shoot down Scud missiles in Iraq. (pictured)

Some of these drives had a basic format performed, but come on, if a drive has government military secrets on it, a power drill seems like the appropriate tool to wipe the data. Not only that, the hard drive should probably not be sold on the used market being eBay, Craigslist, or a fleamarket. Let this be a lesson to us all. If you have, or had, data stored on a hard drive that big brother or a terrorist would find interesting, don’t sell your hard drive.

One archaeologist has found that eBay actually helped to stop the traffic, rather then make it worse. While people have continued to purchase fake items (sometimes thinking they’ve got a brilliant deal on the real thing), the purchase and transport of genuine items has been slowed in general. Also, in many cases, people are knowingly purchasing cheap fakes for personal use, rather then risking buying the expensive (and highly risky) illegal authentic artifacts. Consequently, it’s become less profitable for looters to risk cleaning out real sites, and more profitable to produce fake items for the tourist and eBay market.

Bad news for me, I paid quite a lot of money for this crystal skull. To think it might be fake…

Want a Zune? Actually, do you want a cheap media player ’cause they don’t get much less expensive than this. Sure, this model is the last generation, but you still get all the goodies of the new models. The player is available via eBay through the Best Buy Outlet so you can purchase with confidence. Oh, and the shipping is free.

The case is a black Cooler Master case with the Chains of Promathia artwork embedded in each side panel, covered in gloss to protect it. It has two minor scratches (pictured) that are not over the artwork, merely near the edges of the panels. It also has a top access panel for sound, USB and FireWire access. It also has a black aluminum access door covering the front peripherals.

The video card has been recently upgraded to a 512 MB NVidia GeForce 7600 GS with dual monitor outputs. (DVI and VGA) Other than that, it remains exactly the same. This PC was custom-built by the FFXI dev team to run FFXI at a breakneck pace, and consistently ran the FFXI Benchmark tool with a score well over 6000 with the old 256-meg video card. It has not been benchmarked with the new card, mainly because we stopped playing FFXI a few years ago. It does, however, run WoW at well over 50 fps sustained.

I don’t know anyone who’s into FFXI enough to go for it, but maybe that’s just because I haven’t met you yet.

The set includes Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu (however a bit creepy looking), Chekov, and the Enterprise. Finally you can get a tasty photon candy torpedo shot into your mouth without it costing extra.

[ebay via Technabob]

If you love your Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM – and I mean really love it – why not get yourself a miniature replica of it that doubles as a 4GB USB drive?

Like most things related to photography, it’s not cheap – current bidding is at almost $150 with three days still left in the auction. But can you really put a price on a tiny replica of an SLR camera with 4GB of memory stuffed into the adorable lens? You probably can, actually, which is kind of the whole point of eBay and the auction process in general.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II 4GB USB Drive [eBay via Engadget]

The Illuminati are real, and have removed that proto-iPhone auction from eBay. The auction had been live for a few days before Apple contacted eBay, shutting the auction down before the proto-iPhone made it “out there.” The video was also pulled from YouTube.

Apparently Apple removed a similar auction from eBay last year, so you know it’s someone’s job at Cupertino to troll eBay/blogs looking for unauthorized sales, auctions, etc.

Considering there’s very little else to talk about, here’s a video of a family absolutely killing the final obstacle course in Nickelodeon’s Double Dare.

Attention camera fanatics, ebay has a listing for you. The Paillard Bolex H8 Military Gun was apparently used by a Vietnam war reporter and survived. Wartime details about the equipment isn’t listed but just think of the history this camera might have recorded. The buyer gets a few more lens along the original documentation and a case too. But is it worth the $1,318 Buy It Now price?

via BBG

What’s a girl to do when she’s moving to Amsterdam and can’t bring her Town Car with her? Sell it on eBay with help from her daddy’s digital camera and her mothers genes. What else? After all, how the hell else are you going to sell a gigantic, V8 Lincoln from the Bush Sr.’s term? We just wanna know one thing though: Can herpes survive on leather seats? More NSFW pics after the jump.

This last year has been eBay dealing with the fact that it may have essentially peaked in usage, or at least gotten as big as it’s going to get for now without major changes. The number of actual items sold has dropped year-over-year by as much as 10%, which is a big hit.

The cognitive scientist in me says that in times of scarcity, people are more likely to go with the sure thing — in etailers that would be Amazon — and avoid the “gamble,” which is eBay. It’s unpredictable by nature, even if it’s all according to a system. eBay will get their groove back, but keeping expectations low is probably a good idea.

Oh. My. Gawd. If I only had $5 grand lying around I might consider blowing it on this. One mospeada30 has put up what appears to be the entire G1 collection of Transformers action figures. That includes all action figures from 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and most of 1988, according to the seller. They’re obviously not in mint condition, but at least a vast majority of them are there and intact. The current bid is $4,250 with 4.5 days left. This sh*t is b-a-n-a-n-a-s!

I have every single Transformer in this collection from 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and the majority of the 1988 catalog (with exceptions, see below). In late 1988, I stopped collecting Transformers because I didn’t like the direction the toys were taking. Please. Plastic shell animals that crack open to reveal a very plastic-y robot inside? I lost interest pretty fast.

Because this collection is very big, *it is possible that some parts/weapons may be missing*, so I need to disclose that. I actually have most all the weapons/parts in a very large jar. It would take me ages to go through, and organize each piece with its weapons, catalogs, spec sheet, etc. So for that reason, I’m selling collection as a whole, and the new buyer is more than welcome to dive into that project.

All Headmasters have there, um, well, correct Headmasters with them. They are present with their vehicles and accounted for EXCEPT the white RX7 Headmaster dude. I probably have it, somewhere, in there. He was the only piece that didn’t have his correct Headmaster with him.

*In the picture showing the boxed Transformers, the boxed ‘WheelJack’ and ‘Mirage’ are Italian Transformers! I picked them up when I was in Italy circa 1987. Please take note of that.

Known missing Transformers that I do not have in this collection;

Red Alert – Autobot Fire Dept Lamborghini Countach

Misfire – Decepticon Target Master

Ram Jet – missing a left wing

via Transformers Live

The Nintendo Wii took the #1 spot in eBay’s 2008 tech toys and gadgets top list, with over 2 million related items sold on the site. The Xbox360 was next at 1.3 million, followed by the Sony PSP and iPod touch.

The full list is below.

1. Nintendo Wii: 2,056,866 related items sold
2. Microsoft Xbox360: 1,297,903 related items sold
3. Sony PSP: 350,591 related items sold
4. iPod Touch: 281,361 related items sold
5. Nintendo Wii Fit: 266,584 related items sold
6. Apple iPhone 3G: 212,837 related items sold
7. BlackBerry Pearl: 207,688 related items sold
8. BlackBerry Curve: 193,788 related items sold
9. Sony Playstation 3: 103,333 related items sold
10. Guitar Hero III: 98,159 related items sold
11. Halo 3: 91,067 related items sold
12. Grand Theft Auto IV: 43,005 related items sold
13. MacBook Air: 12,423 related items sold
14. Guitar Hero Aerosmith: 3,749 related items sold
15. Rock Band 2’s: 1,650 related items sold

How’s this for ingenuity? USA! USA! USA! In what can only be described as the ultimate in convergence devices, some guy on eBay is selling a Wii with a Nintendo 64 cartridge slot that actually plays real games. What’s most impressive is that the whole thing looks pretty natural, with the slight exception of the side panel jutting outwards a bit to make room for the N64 controller port. It’d be a nice touch if the thing actually played Wii games, too, but alas, it’s just an N64 stuffed into a Wii console’s shell.

Take note, Nintendo: when you release Wii HD or whatever it’ll be called, please include a cartridge slot with various adapters for NES, Super NES, and N64 games.

Wii 64 Nintendo Wii 64 console! Working! ONE OF A KIND! [eBay via NWFB]

As you know Open Tech has been up for sale on the Open Tech Site. (good2beopen.com) if you go to the Open Tech Site you will see that it says we have posted an PayPal verified Secure eBay listing. Hello, the company Open Tech is still up for sale, but know on ebay. The items included in the price are:
-Sole ownership of the Open Tech Name
-The Open Tech Website and Web servers
-Trade Secrets for the Open Tech Home & XT
-Press Contacts -Corporate documents including logos
*The only Physical items that will be sent are Corporate documents and Legal Paperwork. And a USB Flash drive that contains all company information. (Logos,Pictures,Web Server Information)
A legal contract will be sent to the purchaser of Open Tech which has been signed off by the Owner of Open tech allowing full ownership of Opentech.

This is pretty hot, folks: a kind of crappy domain, IP that is available online, and “press contacts” that probably consist of bloggers like us. Rock and roll, people. Let’s all pool a dollar and put these boys out of their misery.