Teen Auctioning Himself As Prom Date Gets Kicked Off eBay

[matcom]

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WILLMAR, Minn. -- A teenager auctioning himself as a prom date has been booted off eBay -- but he's still selling the shirt off his back.

Nathan Carlson offered himself for auction last Friday after a conversation with some friends at Ridgewater College. The bidding started at $30.

But as the bids came in and exceeded $260, Carlson added a comment that he'd contribute half the money to charity if the bidding went past $1,500 -- a big no-no for the online auction site.

That comment violated eBay's policies on auctions to benefit charity, and the Web site ended the auction on Tuesday. Carlson reposted his auction Tuesday and added other auctions to sell the clothes he wore during some television interviews, at the request of some of the eBay bidders, he said.

"Maybe they just thought my dancing was great," he said.

But eBay canceled his prom date auction again. "They said the name was inappropriate or false," he said Wednesday.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4159531/detail.html

[LoZoccolo]

1. Aw man, now /I/ wanna do that.

LoZoccolo is 30 years old.