The one-woman disaster-recovery team.

[AlecWest]

Britney Spears has started auctioning off a lot of clothing and accessories to benefit flood-disaster victims in Mississippi. And a few of them are pretty pricey:

http://search.stores.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=britney+spears&srchdesc=y&sid=99...&submit=Search

One of her bras currently tops the bidding at over $40,000. And all in all, there are (so far) 22 eBay pages of stuff she's auctioning off.

[Faustus]

Guess people will buy anything.

[Faustus]

Wait... are these worn cloths? Doesn't ebay have a policy against selling used clothing?

[anitract]

What a great big steaming pile of sh...tuff.

Yeah, used clothing? Just what we need...a bunch of Britney DNA floating around out there...attack of the clones anyone?

[JSB1]

I think she is selling all those size zero dresses because she can't fit in them anymore

JSB

[SquirrelDip]

Damn... No Britney Speers dildo...

[lordsmurf]

Wait... are these worn cloths? Doesn't ebay have a policy against selling used clothing?

Used clothes are fine.

You're thinking of "worn panties" that are not washed.
Or "soiled clothing" or "feminine stains".
Basically anything sickos would want.

That auction seller has 16,446 negative feedbacks too!

[SquirrelDip]

You have to take the negatives in perspective - but I totally agree, 12% negative is huge!

[adam]

Ebay's policy says no used underwear at all regardless of how well you clean it.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/used-clothing.html

On the news they said that ebay made an exception since it was actually hers, not someone claiming to have Britney's undies, and it was for a good cause.

[canadateck]

Ebay's policy says no used underwear at all regardless of how well you clean it.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/used-clothing.html

On the news they said that ebay made an exception since it was actually hers, not someone claiming to have Britney's undies, and it was for a good cause.

There should be NO exception . But I quess it's better then .Hearing on the news ( Ebay Shut Down charity auction).

[lordsmurf]

Ebay's policy says no used underwear at all regardless of how well you clean it.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/used-clothing.html

On the news they said that ebay made an exception since it was actually hers, not someone claiming to have Britney's undies, and it was for a good cause.

I have always wondered who would want used underwear anyway, purchased or free, poor or not. That's one of the few things that are not expensive to buy ($5 for a 3-pack at Walmart) and people really should just throw away when they are done with them.

[MackemX]

I have always wondered who would want used underwear anyway, purchased or free, poor or not. That's one of the few things that are not expensive to buy ($5 for a 3-pack at Walmart) and people really should just throw away when they are done with them.

there's some pretty strange people out there and I bet there's loads of places you can go to buy stuff like that

[canadateck]

Britney pulls bra from eBay

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Oops! ... It happened again. Britney Spears' jewel-encrusted bra has been removed for a second time from Internet auction site eBay -- this time by the pop singer herself.

The bra was one of dozens of wardrobe items and other personal belongings that Spears put up for bid on eBay to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and bidding on the bejeweled undergarment had surpassed $60,000 before it was withdrawn on Saturday, eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said on Monday.

In a message posted on her official Web site, Spears, 23, told fans she was "concerned that some of you might be confusing this bra with something that it's not."

The message says eBay accurately described the bra as having been worn by Spears during a promotion for an HBO concert special, but "it is not the one I wore onstage during the 'Baby One More Time' performance."

"I feel the correct thing to do is remove this item from the auction because I don't want any of you to feel misled," she wrote. Spears did not explain how the confusion might have arisen.

Earlier during the auction, an eBay staffer had pulled the bra from the site after deciding that it violated company policy that bars listings for used underwear. But eBay executives later reversed the decision on grounds that the bra was really a piece of entertainment memorabilia, Durzy said.

Spears, who recently became a mother, has sold more than 60 million albums since she shot to fame in the late 1990s with her 1999 debut album "... Baby One More Time" and its hit title track, becoming a worldwide phenomenon at age 16.

With the subsequent albums "Oops! ... I Did It Again" and "Britney," Spears became the first female performer in the history of Billboard magazine to have her first three albums open at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts


http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/10/people.spears.reut/index.html