Seven things you really can't sell on eBay

Despite 25 years of auctioning everything from miraculous sandwiches to brothels, there are still some things you can’t sell on eBay, writes Shane Cochrane.

One of the first items sold on eBay, shortly after it was founded on September 3, 1995, was a broken laser pointer. When eBay founder Pierre Omidyar contacted the buyer to confirm that he knew that the laser pointer was broken, the buyer replied: “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.” Since then, all sorts of strange things have been sold on the auction website.

For instance, in 2005, Diana Duyser sold a toasted cheese sandwich bearing the image of the Virgin Mary for $28,000. While in 2006, the actor William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $25,000.