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"There are always a number of unusual items for sale on eBay, but it's not every day that you see an entire town go up for auction. The fetching price for tiny Wauconda, Washington, was a mere $360,000, which sounds like a veritable bargain if one of your dreams in life is to own your own zip code. \nWauconda consists of only a restaurant, a small store, a gas pump, a four-bedroom house and that exclusive zip code.  Nevertheless, seller Daphne Fletcher claims to take in about $300,000 per year mostly thanks to the summer travel season with tourists passing through. The new owners, Maddie and Neal Love, came in and sealed the deal after a protracted month-long bidding war, including a hopeful bid from a young boy who tried to \"surprise his parents by buying a town.\"\nAmazingly, this is not the first time an entire town has sold on the auction site. Bridgeville, California, sold for $1.78 million in 2003 and tiny Albert, Texas, went up for a $2.5 million reserve price in 2007, among others.\nWhat's the strangest thing you've ever seen sold on eBay?\n[img credit: Seattle Times]\n[via Switched]\n\n\nFor more technology coverage, follow Mashable Tech on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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