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Facebook Marketplace is a great spot to find some cheap second-hand goods. It’s appealing to many sellers because it has a wide reach and is easy to use. The social media aspect of it also makes it easy to connect with potential buyers and answer any questions.
The site also imposes very few limits on what you can sell, making scrolling through the website feel a lot like a garage sale. And just like in any other garage sale, you are bound to find some weird stuff there.
The list below consists of some fascinating finds collected by the Instagram page Marketplace Double Takes. Scroll down to explore the oddities.
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cadena kuhn 2 years ago
Well they could have at least put him in a banana suit
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Did they just say "hey- lay face down next to this rug! No questions! Click. Thanks all set"
A lot of the things that end up on Facebook Marketplace get there because people want to discard them. The reasons for that are various but, in one way or another, the pieces are unwanted. However, sometimes the things that find themselves in auction aren’t unwanted at all. In fact, they might actually be very valuable and end up on sale by accident.
Out of all the people and organizations to make that kind of mistake, the one you might least expect to do this is NASA. However, that’s exactly what happened to them back in 2015.
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Rob(erta) Roy (They/Them) 2 years ago
Am I the only one who has that song stuck in my head now?
Khavrinen 2 years ago
"Who wants to buy this diamond ring; she took it off her finger now it doesn't mean a thing..."
Load More Replies... Mental Liberals 2 years ago
Better now than divorce! I wish mine said no - because that's what she actually wanted... :( I was used...
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 2 years ago
Sorry to hear that. Must be a horrible feeling. Hope you heal from it.
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Valek Fermiga 2 years ago
The brand new McKnuckleSandwich - " ketchup " is an optional extra....
You see, back in 2003, Max Ary, a man who ran Kansas Cosmosphere Museum, was convicted of stealing and selling space objects. The police then seized a bunch of his possessions and sold some of them at an auction for retribution.
One of the items that ended up with the “for sale” sign was a 12-by-81/2-inch bag made of white Beta cloth and polyester with rubberized nylon and a brass zipper. Inside of it there were traces of moondust—fine grey powder brought to Earth all the way from the Moon. Better yet—it was the first ever sample of moondust that humans have collected.
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les 2 years ago
the finished beetle looks more like amardillo though. the effect on the trunk was carried on right over the roof
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David 2 years ago
Art installation? The cockroach is weird, the wallpaper says MARFA which google tells me is a city in Texas and though you can only see part of the picture it looks like a 'bug baby'. Link comments say it is from John Waters and when you google - he did a lot of other cockroach stuff.
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Not exactly sure of the connection with cockies, but Marfa, Texas, is pretty famous among the X-Files crowd for the Marfa Lights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights
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Michael Vickery 2 years ago
Honey, if I were a human sized cockroach, would you still love me?
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Ummm, sure...just don't look at FB marketplace for a couple days, ok?
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Karizma Kaliko 2 years ago
Welcome to Joe's Apartment. His place is ours too! We've been around for a hundred thousand years, and we'll be here longer than you!
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Momten Jillian 2 years ago
For no dollars I'll come to your house and hot glue you to your glue gun
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Whyever would someone want this? Separate, you've got a decent chance of finding one of them, anyway. Together, if you lose one, you lose them all.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Mine are velcroed to my wall. An idea I got from reading 'The Right Stuff' decades ago. They had problems with stuff drifting around the early capsules so they put in every loose item and every bit of open space.
This, of course, was not the plan. The government did not want to sell the moondust to the public, especially right after seizing it. They mixed it up with another bag that did not contain any valuable space materials in it. Either way, the listing popped up online on a federal auction site.
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David 2 years ago
When I combine the object and the asking price I get "optimist with bad taste"
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Mahiera Etsuhae 2 years ago
I think the whole point of this item was so they wouldn't have to do themselves. 😳
Load More Replies... liam newton-harding 2 years ago
Looks comfy, there is even space for your “pet”, under the bed.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
I LOVE the red "thing" ( sorry I can't find the word in English) existencia...197254.jpg 
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
That's called a "pillory", the ones to hold your feet are called "stocks".
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Soon enough, Nancy Lee Carlson, a self-admitted Apollo mission fan, came across the bag online. According to her, it was labeled “lunar sample return” which was enough for her to want to get it. Furthermore, no one else showed any interest in it—nobody bid on it for three auctions. So, she bagged the bag for $995 in February 2015.
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
And I bet someone will still think that they can fit that in the overhead locker on the plane
WindySwede 2 years ago
Always check dimensions, this is what arrives... smallest-b...nMtW-o.jpg 
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I want to know what the promotion was. And if I fill it with books will it hold?
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Marcellus II 2 years ago
Is that your torture dungeon under there? Which your wife assured me you were not trying to lure me to?
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les 2 years ago
conquered, sorry i'm british and its in our dna to f**k up the world
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NASA didn’t catch on to what was happening up until the sample made it back to them. That was because Carlson sent it to them to get it verified. See, she didn’t know which lunar mission it was from, so she wanted to get her facts straight.
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Marcellus II 2 years ago
Because it’s painted to look like a US brand of ice tea, called “Arizona”.
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Mr. Sourcrowd 🧐 2 years ago
Yeah, take a little bit of that and add some of this and then 🤯
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Robert Radford 2 years ago
I rented a house in college and had a pretty awesome chem setup in the basement. My landlord went to change the AC filter and ended up calling the cops on me. Even after the cops explained to him it wasn't a meth lab, he still told me to get it out. Sad but I understand where he was coming from.
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GlixDrap 2 years ago
Damn, that's what I was going to say (or something similar).
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Kristen Carrier 2 years ago
Everybody makes fun of this one until the zombie apocalypse comes.
However, once NASA found out about their mistake, they were quick to fix it—government style. They seized it once again. They argued that the sample belongs to the American people. “This artifact was never meant to be owned by an individual,” said their spokesman. But Carlson was not convinced. She sued them.
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Robert Radford 2 years ago
Pretty sure all of ChatGPT's computing goes on in the company's data center.
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heidi hunt 2 years ago
Indianapolis!!!! I live there!!! Maybe I should buy this and see where it gets me🤣
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Supposedly to every house in Indianapolis if you are Santa or the wizard kings
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I always imagine these opening up a secret door that looks like a sewage drain and then you enter this entire universe that goes underneath the city and transports you anywhere
While their plea was valid, the US district judge in Kansas couldn’t do much to help NASA. He recognized that the listing was a mistake, but he also admitted that he simply could not reverse the authority of the sale. So, Carlson got her bag back and sold it for 1.8 million dollars.
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Marcellus II 2 years ago
Fits more in a nightmare for me but whatever floats your boat.
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Christof Irran 2 years ago
BTW there was a very good reason why the hookers of Paris referred to Toulouse-Lautrec as the "teapot."
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I have to do it. Those of you who know me know I can't help myself. I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle; here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, hear me shout! Just tip me over and pour me out.
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Momten Jillian 2 years ago
The bolts sticking out of the base are a message. Be careful what you squish for
Steven Meyer 2 years ago
Great for when that skank of yours has to work out her frustrations on a road trip.
However, the story didn’t end there. You see, NASA is just as petty as any of us would be in this situation. They tampered with the bag, taking some of the dust from it before returning it. Carlson didn’t let it slide. She sued them again.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
This looks nothing like Crowley. It doesn't even look like that minor demon that kept getting burned up. I call fake.
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El Cucuy 2 years ago
They had a campaign where different celebrities did commercials as The Colonel.
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Tiny Dancer 2 years ago (edited)
Fantastic! Reba played the Colonel back in 2018, the first (and only?) woman to do so. Bit o' fun in these crazy days, found the full ad with Patrick Swayze's bro Don on guitar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZbxuBM1HOE
Carlson argued that the tampering affected the price of the bag. It was sold for under 2 million, while initially it was priced between 2 and 4 million dollars. She, once again, won the case and NASA was forced to return five of the six moon dust particles that they removed from the bag. Those later sold for an additional half a million dollars.
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David 2 years ago
Sort of reasonable I guess since it is basically free if you clean it. People buy these things for some event and then find out they are a PITA and want them gone. or so I suppose from the few I've seen in person.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That looks like the George Foreman grill my aunt gave me at my baby shower
All of this to say that the next time you list something online—make sure you really want to get rid of it. You don’t want to make silly mistakes like NASA did.
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Virgin Panda 2 years ago
I would totally trip over or strangle myself trying to get out of bed in a hurry when nature calls
hcaballero57 2 years ago
Because she said, she wouldn't sleep him till he puts a ring around it.
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David 2 years ago
I wonder if it has the original engine. The 2008 had a 1.6 liter engine. Obviously this thing has been very customized but the engine compartment doesn't look big enough for a large engine.
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Jennifer Johnson 1 year ago
my mom made me a few hats like this for grade school, was always nice and warm but not the best looking hair
#33
Fairytails From Other Worlds 2 years ago
Die in style…? Die in this coffin? Get buried alive? Whaat?
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Tabitha 2 years ago
It also looks like a mosquito landing on it could collapse it.
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Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
What would make it even tackier is if it was painted with "If this van's a-rockin, don't come a-knockin!"
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Zaphod 2 years ago
So he can masturabate alone without his mom catching him?
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Tabitha 2 years ago
Those aren’t water stains, they’re mildew in the velvet.
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David 2 years ago
Eww. It is what it sounds like. I mean, it is a necessary tool for some operations but still kind of gross. It also has me thinking about movies like Fargo. https://innovativepoultryproducts.com/omnivore.html
Mike Rodrick 2 years ago
Yesterday I read an article about a guy killed in a wood chipper. Of course Fargo was my 1st image.
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Debby Keir 2 years ago
Umm, so they shoot the dead cattle out the end, and it becomes their neighbour's problem?
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Michael Bennett 2 years ago
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Bored Panda, like most sites like this, steals indiscriminately. Most of us don't even like most of the articles they steal. Yours was fun to look at, though. I'm sorry they stole it.
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VonBlade 2 years ago
I do wonder why so many people confuse the comments for google. "Who is Reba McEntire?". I mean, if you care that much, put that question into a search engine. I know I'll get downvoted because apparently we're so lovey-dovey here we're not allowed to point out stupidity, but it infuriates me. We've never had more, instant, information at our fingertips and people refuse to utilise it.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Because then you get a condensed answer from a panda that knows off the top of their head and it's usually more interesting than the 10,000 answers google gives you. I don't know why it bothers you so much. It's a conversation starter and I don't think causes any harm.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Bored Panda, like most sites like this, steals indiscriminately. Most of us don't even like most of the articles they steal. Yours was fun to look at, though. I'm sorry they stole it.
Load More Replies... VonBlade 2 years ago
I do wonder why so many people confuse the comments for google. "Who is Reba McEntire?". I mean, if you care that much, put that question into a search engine. I know I'll get downvoted because apparently we're so lovey-dovey here we're not allowed to point out stupidity, but it infuriates me. We've never had more, instant, information at our fingertips and people refuse to utilise it.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Because then you get a condensed answer from a panda that knows off the top of their head and it's usually more interesting than the 10,000 answers google gives you. I don't know why it bothers you so much. It's a conversation starter and I don't think causes any harm.
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