Online shoppers the world over head to a handful of places when they want to snap up anything from a set of AAA batteries to the latest items of pet fashion wear. Online marketplace eBay is one of them, and with scores of items for sale from the weird to the wonderful, the best part of a day can easily be lost in the grip of a bidding frenzy.
Those with a penchant for the unusual are well catered for on the site, as evidenced by this list of the 5 of the most curious items currently for sale on eBay.
1. Unicorn horn for cats - £9.95
The success of sights such as i can has cheezburger proves that the nation’s appetite for funny cat pictures shows no signs of abating. And according to its maker’s placing this inflatable unicorn for cats upon the head of your four-legged friend, is guaranteed to produce a loving meow rather than a loathing screech. However, the model in the promotional pic may tell a different story.
2. Blood Bath Shower Mat - £10.95
For the majority of people indulging in a bath or shower is the perfect opportunity to get squeaky clean. However, for fans of the horror genre the bathroom has altogether more sinister connotations – think Hitchcock’s Pyscho – which is why this Blood Bath Shower Mat will be right up their street.
3. Hamster’s Diploma - £11.66
Few pet owners have imagined that their hamsters have ambitions beyond setting speed records in their hamster ball and setting up a straw nest they’d be proud to call home. For those hamsters that have displayed an intelligence that stretches far beyond the capabilities of their species, there is always this hamster diploma from the prestigious, yet little known, Rodent State University.
4. Vintage British Airways Food Plates – approx £17.53
Have you ever sat on a flight and wondered what airline food plates looked like in decades gone by? No, neither have we. But for those for whom nostalgia is a way of life, these Vintage British Airways Food Plates make for the perfect quirky gift.
5. David Cameron Spitting Image style caricature garden gnome sculpture - £14.90
David Cameron may have been immortalised in a number of unusual ways during his time in office, but this caricature garden gnome sculpture is surely one of the weirdest! The likeness to the Prime Minister is also tenuous at best.