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Ghosts sold on TradeMe - Source: Breakfast -
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Trade Me has rolled back the price of "two captured ghosts" which sold for $5000, after several last minute bids were removed.
The auction was won by a Christchurch man, whom Trademe has confirmed was legitimate bidder, after a flurry of bids boosted the price from $1840 to $5000 in the final eight minutes.
This morning a user named Joe158, who had been one of the final two bidders, was removed from the site.
Trademe spokesman Paul Ford says the final price will be rolled back to the highest genuine bid which had been confirmed at $2830.
"The legitimacy of the buyer was never in doubt, we just wanted to make sure the final price paid was fair, and not ramped up by unscrupulous bidders."
He says it is "disappointing" when "last minute attention seekers" sought to spoil high profile auctions.
The "ghosts" were being sold by Christchurch woman Avie Woodbury who said they had been captured from her house and stored in glass vials.
Woodbury says the spirits - an old man named Les Graham, who
lived in the house during the 1920s, and a powerful and
disruptive
"little girl", who turned up following an experiment with a ouija
board - have been kept asleep by putting them in holy water which
"dulls the spirits energy".
All proceeds of the auction are to be donated to the SPCA, once the exorcist's fees had been paid.
Ford says Trade Me's normal success fee has been refunded
to the seller as the money is going to charity.
