EBay recently launched FashionVault, a safe home for auction-aholics to purchase designer goods. Sure, we understand - there's a lot of money to be made in Jimmy Choos. But you're the site people associate with Beanie Babies, quasi-famous celebrity autographs, and things that are shaped like Jesus. In short...there's still some eBay stank to be found lingering, Balenciaga or no. Case in point? One of their highest tiered categories is Reenactment Attire. Sorry eBay, but this is not making you any cooler. more ›

Truly anything can be sold on eBay nowadays--even Seattle's once beloved illegal-activity-producing self-cleaning toilets have a chance for a second life. Those crazy robot port-a-potties went out in a swirl of eBay glory with a winning bid of $12,549. Yes, Seattle originally purchased them for $5 million. Nice. Now the five happy toilets have a new home in Lewis Thurston County with Butch Behn, at his South Sound Speedway. The seven-ton toilets, worth literally more than their weight in gold steel have to be one of the best bargain buys around, plus it's the perfect solution for accommodating beer-lovin' race car fans. more ›

On Monday night, traffic cops pulled over a Volkswagen R32 for doing 110mph on I-90 by the floating bridge. What could possibly have befuddled this driver's brain enough to make him think he was on the autobahn? There's only one answer compelling enough to explain it, and it's the answer the driver gave the officer: he was racing home to place a bid on eBay. In this broken world, good explanations are not always good excuses--the driver spent that night in jail. We shed a tear for his lost auction, and really hope he can quickly find another used plastic widget for his arcade cabinet restoration project (or what have you). more ›

You'll have to stick to Diddy or Kanye vodka for your celebrity vodka needs from here on out, because an unapproved Jimi Hendrix-branded vodka from Electric Hendrix Spirits received an official ixnay from the federal courts this week. Bottles left over? You should think about selling them for $65+ on eBay.com like this enterprising capitalist. H/t to Under The Needle via Big Blog. more ›

• The Daily Weekly reports that the City of Seattle has successfully sold its scandalous public toilets on EBay....for over $80,000 less per toilet than they'd hoped.
• While we know it means our Seattle Native card could be revoked, we are still less than thrilled that a new clown statue in honor of JP Patches is set to be unveiled this Sunday. We hate clowns, we always have, and since JP Patches was the big local clown during our childhood, we kinda blame him. The idea of having to walk by a creepy clown statue while drunk in Fremont gives us the shivers.
• My Ballard has photographic proof that bike lanes have been painted on 8th Avenue between Market and Leary.

Unfortunate Washington Names, Part II: A sad chapter in unfortunate Washington names was written this weekend, when a paraglider died on Tiger Mountain after launching off Poo Poo Point. Eric Jansen, a veteran paraglider was killed at 4:20 p.m. on Friday after suffering heart problems mid-air and crashing into a tree. While Jansen died doing what he loved most, we would hate to have the words "launched from Poo Poo Point" forever associated with our death. more ›

As Seattlest reported a couple of weeks ago, Washington State was trying to unload a used passenger ferry on Ebay. Sadly, the time has come and gone for bidding on the Chinook, without an acceptable bidder. This wasn't one of the "your best offer" sales on Ebay, Washington State wouldn't part with the boat for less than $4.5million and no one laid down that kind of offer. Bidding on the boat closed yesterday without a single legitimate bid. Guess folks who are looking for mulit-million dollar boats aren't doing their shopping on Ebay. more ›

Just in time for MLK Day, a friend emailed us this WTF? moment, brought to you by the automated internet. He's been researching old advertisements for slave auctions, and a Google search brought up this text ad for eBay: more ›

Attention Pearl Jam fans and Flatstock attendees: You need the new, superfancy art book Pearl Jam vs Ames Bros: 13 Years of Tour Posters. more ›

Prince Howard of Schultz, the man who would be our entertainment king, also wants to feed us frozen yogurt. Yes, the man who brought you Frappuccino wants you to start licking his Pinkberry. more ›

Overheard at Seattlest HQ: "I can see how the guy might have a case, but it's pretty common knowledge in the industry that you don't fucking sell AutoCAD on your own -- at least not on obvious places like eBay." more ›

Local photographer Jenny Jiménez got robbed big time. Some skeevy dudes broke into her house and stole a whole mess of shit worth over $20K, including photography equipment, computers, and her mother's wedding ring, which Jenny was going to use in her own nuptials this fall. Way to go, assholes. From her LiveJournal post: more ›

Jim Moore of the P-I reports this shocking news today: The Wazzu Cougars have passed the UW Huskies in apparel sales, according to a company that keeps track of such things. more ›

As a teenager, Seattlest loved posters. We plastered Miami Vice stills rock gods, Tiger Beat pages swimsuit models and sports stars on our walls with tacks, tape and that white boogery stuff. Some boys grow up and out of the phase. Others become obsessed with poster art, set up savings accounts for Flatstock, and bitch about those who “flip,”—resell high-demand gig posters—for a steep profit. (We fall somewhere in between.) Artillery Design, a new site from Seattle-based artist extraordinaire Brad Klausen, should satisfy the latter group. more ›

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... more ›

We vividly remember the first time we saw Brett Wolfe: in 1998, we were standing outside in a parking lot on Dexter, talking to someone on our cell phone. We stopped silent when we saw a guy with only one leg riding his bike up Dexter, and he was passing people like they were standing still. more ›

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. more ›

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. more ›

Image you're the type to buy a "celebrity owned" Range Rover from Craigslist. Man, is your life fucked up! What is wrong with you? Do you think that just because a Seattle celebrity owned that thing before you that it somehow makes your life more interesting? Is it alpha to own such a vehicle, to sit with your ass in the seat that was occupied by our most embarassing athletic figure? Is it going to help you get laid? Is it going to help you close some kind of deal? Is it going to pay for itself in new accounts inside of year? Or are you going to take a bath on it and not even care because you got to be the guy who bought and sold and took a bath on Brian Bosworth's Range Rover? More power to you. Drive proud. Enough about you. In this Craigslist ad and the accompanying eBay auction, why is the fact that Bosworth owned the vehicle a selling point? And more importantly, how is Brian Bosworth still rolling in a Range Rover? Apparently the old rock star linebacker to classic 80's poster material to movie star to best-selling author to (big drop here) speaker at corporate events career path still pays out after all these years. We'd 'a thought he'd be in something a little more...practical by now. We'll let you know when that one appears on Craigslist: "2001 Civic / Celebrity Owned." more ›

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There are times, we admit, that we just don't get it. Downtown merchants, in a rare spasm of civic altruism, turn over space to a bizarre philanthropic two-fer: Pacific Northwest Ballet, which has its own money-machine at McCaw these days, the iconic Nutcracker, and Northwest Center, the most sacrosanct of local charities. more ›

Remember half.com, the popular used media marketplace that got bought by eBay and turned into one of their red-headed step-subsidiaries? Remember when dot-coms had the money to pull wacky publicity stunts? Remember when Half.com, the company, bought the rights to rename Halfway, OR, and call it Half.com, OR? more ›

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If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week. more ›

Seattlest's token bicycle hobo friend (who would himself blog for Seattlest if only Google would unveil the much-needed hobo translator language tool) clued us in to a little eBay scheme his friend - also a bicycle hobo - recently initiated, whereby said hobo tries to sell a half-eaten corndog and egg salad sandwich allegedly touched by Britney Spears and her rapping man-child pet K-Fed. more ›

Oh were we ever excited about December 1st. more ›

We started poking around Amazon yesterday to read the customer reviews of John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise. Sniff sniff, hmmm...things seem different. Our Beacon Hill bohemoth is up to something, testing out some new designs, and apparently some new functionality for their product pages. more ›

We heard about a gigantic clam for sale over at eBay recently and thought maybe we could throw it on the grill to serve some out of town guests at Chez Seattlest. Turns out it's not that type of clam. And it cost someone $1,626. more ›

Occasionally when we take a break from adding bulletproofing to our trusty Seattlest offices on the off-chance 50 Cent stops by for an interview, we amuse ourselves with the Clear Channel College Entertainment site. What is the Clear Channel College Entertainment site, you ask. Well frankly it's one of the more entertaining and revealing sites on the internet. Pause for you to be shocked that Clear Channel can actually provide some entertaining content. more ›