‘Trade Me’ releases list of wackiest celeb postings from past two decades

Seventeen years after first going online, New Zealand-based auction website ‘Trade Me’ will soon post its billionth listing.

“We’ve seen our fair share of quirky, crazy and wonderful listings that have brought us this far, and we marvel every day at the eclectic range of things our members put up for sale,” Trade Me CEO Jon Macdonald told Computerworld.

In honour of the upcoming milestone, the company has made public a number of interesting facts.

For example, the most viewed item ever, with more than one million views, is a handbag and broken cell phone belonging to retired All Blacks captain Tana Umaga, according to Computerworld.

The company has also listed its millionth bid, millionth question and millionth member – who they say joined in April 2005 and has never logged in since.

More interestingly though, according to Stuff, are the quirkier items to have ever been sold on the site including a cob of corn bitten into by British soccer star David Beckham.

If sports aren’t really your thing – or maybe you’re just looking for some added sugar – a half-eaten lollipop discarded at the Lord of the Rings premier by Orlando Bloom might have been more up your alley.

Sadly, it was purchased by someone overseas and security withheld it from being shipped internationally sending it to the garbage instead.

Or maybe you’d prefer something a little more fun.

A kite released by Bono during a concert performance of U2’s song Kite (seen in this video) reportedly fetched $1,230 with proceeds from the sale fittingly being donated to OXFAM.

The lists prove you can sell just about anything online if it’s got a famous name attached to it.