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#10. A Hairy Online Auction
Here's a worthy contender for world's weirdest promo: Baseball trading-card
company Topps obtained three strands of George Washington's hair from a
historical hair collector, attached them to Washington "relic" cards and
inserted them into regular packs of baseball cards. In September, one of
the relics ended up on eBay, where bidding reached $8,300 before the item
was pulled for violating site policies. The problem? An eBay member
complained the founding-father memorabilia should not have been listed as a
baseball card.
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