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Ghosts sold on TradeMe - Source: Breakfast -
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The "two captured ghosts" sold on Trade Me on Tuesday night have gone to a company which sells electronic cigarettes.
The auction recorded more than 200,000 page views and made international headlines.
Safer Smoke NZ says it wants people to visit their website and vote on what to do with the spirits.
"Would you release them to live out the rest of their spirit lives to the full? Would you bury or burn them for safety? Do you think they'd make a refreshing beverage?" the company asks.
The "ghosts" were sold by Christchurch woman Avie Woodbury who says 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".
Safer Smoke NZ had bid $5000, but the final price dropped to $2830 after a last minute bidder was revealed to be a fake seeking to push the price up.
Woodbury will donate the proceeds to the SPCA - once exorcist's fees have been paid.
Trade Me says the normal success fee will be refunded as the money is going to charity.
