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They are selling their debt in $10.00 chunks.  Buyers will get a thank you note and a photo of the family.<br/><br/>The original auction listing was removed by EBay, but was relisted <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=290294099281" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> - probably with a wording change to make it acceptable.<br/><br/>Desperate times call for desperate measures.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>415</score><crdate>2/4/2009 11:33:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-04T11:33:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133968</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/133968/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 10 most bizarre items put up for auction on eBay]]></title><description><![CDATA[From jets to wives to countries to lives - the wild and the wonderful is all here.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>12</score><crdate>10/1/2009 2:39:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-01T14:39:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49922</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49922/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Used GM Cars on Ebay]]></title><description><![CDATA[General Motors said Friday that 3,900 auto dealers who sell GM&#8217;s Certified Used Cars will list their entire inventories on eBay Motors, according to industry publication Automotive News.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>96</score><crdate>2/8/2008 4:42:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-08T16:42:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>24440</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24440/1/</url><title><![CDATA[When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some dollar coins lack &quot;In God We Trust.&quot; The mint promised it wouldn't happen again, but you know what? It happened again.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>22</score><crdate>6/19/2007 8:57:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-19T20:57:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40229</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40229/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas town put on sale on eBay for $2.5 million]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;It's a concept. It's one of a kind,&quot; said Cave, 47, a real estate agent. &quot;It's more like a piece of art than it is a real estate property. That's why eBay sounded so good to us. 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This is to stop members from buying used units from ex-members instead of buying from the official (and very expensive) source. Given Scientology's record of fraud and abuse, should eBay give them this level of trust? 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