Top 5 College eBay Scams

By Tracy O'Neill (OTR Editor)
Tags: zack ketz, scam, ebay, sell vote, entrepreneurship

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Created: 08/07/2008
09:45 AM

Remember when that fantard bought toast half-eaten by Justin Timberlake from eBay in 2000? Well looks like college students are also finding unusual ways to hustle on the site. Here is our list of the Top 5 College eBay Scams.

1) Zack Ketz, a 30-year-old man recently accepted to University of Virginia as a transfer student, posted an ad on eBay two days ago, selling the chance to send him to college. Ketz claims that he “desperately needs money” for the $22,962 tuition. In return, he promises to wear clothes with the name of the bidder or bidder’s company everyday for the rest of his college career, as well as other stuff no one gives two ****s about, like sending the bidder his report cards.

2) In May, a University of Minnesota student named Max Sanders attempted to sell his vote in the presidential election on eBay. He received zero bids and was charged for a felony.

3) After Exeter University administrators cut degree programs for music, chemistry, and Italian, students decided to stick it to the man by putting the university up for sale on eBay. Before eBay deleted the sale listing, the highest bid hovered at approximately 10 million pounds.

4) In June, an Ohio Dominican University senior, Dustin Crew, placed his cast on sale on eBay as advertising space in order to pay off some debt accumulated in the car accident in which he originally messed up his arm.

5) Last year, after a trip visiting three continents and seventeen countries, Northeastern student Josh Minney found himself stuck in Europe without money for a plane ticket home. After posting himself as a laborer for sale on eBay in order to obtain money for his return flight, a purported psychic named Darlene Anderson bid on him. When Minney returned to the United States, he began employment for her, but then again, she knew that.