Five Wicked and Very Expensive Items (and Other “Stuff”) Sold on eBay

The Town of Bridgeville, California

Sold for: $1.77 million

Believe it or not, towns in the U.S. can be bought, apparently. Bridgeville was the first town to be sold on eBay, in 2002, but not the only one. Albert, Texas can join this list; it was sold for $2.5 Million.
Bridgeville had about 30 inhabitants, 8 houses, a café and a post office by the time it was sold. The 83-acre town was actually sold to Bruce Krall, a banker from Orange County, California, for $700,000, after the original bidder backed out. The town was then resold, when Mr. Krall realized that it would cost too much to fix it up. It was repurchased on 2006, for $1.25 million, by Daniel La Paille, a 25-year-old entertainment manager from Los Angeles who committed suicide a few months later. The town is still up for sale; interested?