selling odd things on ebay to bring in traffic?

I don't know if this is even possible or if it will even bring traffic to your site, but I was thinking about selling an odd object on ebay just to get the attention of ebay visitors. Like pretend I put a jar of san diego oxygen on sale at ebay. I really don't want to sell that jar of oxygen, but i want people to click on my weirdo auction so they can see links of my website in the auction details. in turn i gain visitors to my site.

thoughts?

 

read ebays T&Cs and then think about how to convert ebay users into website visitors. there is a bunch of rules that dont allow you to do things quite so directly

 

Actually I have seen people sell "Air guitars" lol.

 

isnt one of their rules that you cant put urls in the auctions? well not direct ones.

there is a chance however that i may be making that up haha!!

 

It is something marketers have been doing for a while. ...For traffic

 

it depends on your website,

unrelated url in the auctions will bring untargeted traffic to your website if thats what your looking for

 

haha. thats pretty funny. i wonder how many bids it got

 

The thing is that if you get bids on the item, you will have to deliver it, so make sure you can actually do it.

One funny thing that I've seen selling on ebay was the: "New Folder". The auction even had a screenshot of it! I bet the delivery is pretty easy on that one.

 

OMG! That is freaking hilarious! So, if the buyer keeps it for a while, puts a few files in it, then resells it, do they have to change the name to "Gently Used Folder"? hahaha

 

I am thinking, if the seller can find even ONE buyer for that product, he can write an ebook on marketing and make a killing. How is that for an ebook title: "How I made $XXX selling 'New Folder' on Ebay"

 

I did an ebay post selling physical immortality for 15 billion, I got no buyers, but I did get several thousand visitors( a few funny and a few angry).

 

just imagine the fees that ebay and paypal would rake

 

I'd buy it just because I love that sort of wierdness and am all about encouraging more of it. My bid wouldn't be more than $X though.. lol.

Only thing I wouldn't put up with would be shipping and handling charges... lol. (remember when there used be discussion about a tax on emails? man I'm glad that stupidity died off, if I had to explain one more time how smtp worked ... well, never mind..)