A pretzel resembling the Virgin Mary was posted on the online auction site eBay, and bids for the item have surpassed the $1 million mark. The pretzel, posted on the website by owner Michael Fleming, had received a bid of $10,950 Thursday afternoon, and was later on followed by a questionable $1. 1 million by a first-time bidder.

Golf balls swallowed by and extracted from a snake were placed for sale on eBay, with the highest bid totalling $1,401 Australian, or $1,253 US. The four balls which were taken from inside a carpet python at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary last week were posted for sale on the online auction, still unwashed. The winner will also receive X-rays and photographs of Augusta, the python, with the balls still inside, and after the balls were taken out by surgery.

Ebay announced that more than a million gifts have been offered for sale and as an opportunity to be re-gifted. Among those putting their unwanted gifts up for sale is Ayesha Johnson, 23, of London, who is selling a pair of Prada shoes given to her by her brother worth $602.

A father sold the hard-to-find video game "Guitar Hero III he bought for his son for $90 as a Christmas present at an online auction for a whopping $9,000 after he caught his 15-year-old teenage son smoking marijuana. The sale occurred after the father searched for the video game for the Nintendo WII game board. The father spent two weeks searching for the video game as a Christmas present for his boy.

A small town in Texas now has a new international owner. Someone in Italy placed the winning bid on eBay for the town of Albert, Texas. The bid, for $3. 8 million, still has to be authenticated. Real estate sold on eBay does not have contractual obligations.