Ebay Pulls Klebold "Murderabilia"
Here's a word I've never heard before: Murderabilia. The background: Dylan Klebold's black BMW was being advertised for sale on Ebay. The seller asserts he bought the car not knowing it was Klebold's and once finding out, decided to unload it.
The 1982 320i has 144,000 miles, according to the advertisement. What appears to be one of the last bids was for $1,825. Bidding was set to end March 10.
Jefferson County Sheriff's returned the car to the Klebold family once they determined they had no further use for it. From the article, I infer that the Klebold's then sold it. (It's not clear whether they sold it to a car dealer or an individual.) Ultimately, it ended up with the man who put the ad on Ebay. Ebay's policies state:
"EBay may also, in its discretion and out of respect for the families of murder victims, remove listings of items closely associated with individuals notorious for committing murderous acts within the last 100 years," according to the company Web site.
There was at least one bidder on the car before the ad was pulled:
California filmmaker Michael Escher said he bid on the car after coming across it while looking for auto parts. "I know that it's an emotionally charged thing," Escher said. "But I thought I could get a hold of it and sell it for a lot of money."
Comments
Submitted by Concerned (not verified) on Thu, 2006-03-09 20:54.
I think we should organize a net-wide boycott/reprisal/publicizing that the following organizations are supporting the despicable website of those seeking to profit from the heartaches of others.
The buykleboldsbmw.com site is hosted by abac.com. People who are hosted with them should send e-mail threatening not to renew their hosting contracts. The company also uses the aplus.net domain and names4ever.com to sell website services to the uniformed. They need to know a pariah is doing business with them and that the public won't stand for it or support their businesses.
In addition, their site is using domain name services from elitefashiononline.com (don't ask me why?) and they too should be contacted by the public and pressured to dissolve their business with the buykleboldsbmw.com owners.
Let's move people!
