eBay
eBay, also rendered as Ebay (PROSE: Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary [+]Loading...["Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary (short story)"]) or ebay, (PROSE: Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings [+]Loading...["Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)"]) was an online auction and shopping website. It was used by some people to sell alien items and artefacts. (TV: Random Shoes [+]Loading...["Random Shoes (TV story)"], AUDIO: Fallout [+]Loading...["Fallout (audio story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In mid-2006, after the exponential increase in excavated Schlechter Wolf bombs from refurbishments to the Northern and Jubilee London Underground lines, UNIT Corporal Cameron Walker warned anybody wanting to sell the bombs on places such as ebay, due to the large market for WWII artefacts, to stay away from the lethal weapons. (PROSE: Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings [+]Loading...["Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)"])
In 2008, Angela Wisher suggested that the Fifth Doctor could find a Cuddlesome on eBay. (AUDIO: Cuddlesome [+]Loading...["Cuddlesome (audio story)"])
The robot dog's Master had books delivered by Ebay, but not the "ordinary one". (PROSE: Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary [+]Loading...["Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary (short story)"])
Toshiko Sato found and purchased a Bekaran deep-tissue scanner while shopping for shoes on eBay. (PROSE: Another Life [+]Loading...["Another Life (novel)"])
Rhys Williams purchased a set of golf clubs on eBay. (PROSE: Bay of the Dead [+]Loading...["Bay of the Dead (novel)"])
Eugene Jones discovered a Dogon sixth eye and, convinced it was a genuine alien artefact, hoped to sell it on eBay. The auction closed at £15,005.50, which thrilled Eugene until he learned that his friends Josh and Gary had made the high bids to boost the price and accidentally made the final bid. (TV: Random Shoes [+]Loading...["Random Shoes (TV story)"])
Donna Noble once suggested using the Doctor's TARDIS to go back to the 1970s and stock up on Pacers and Horror Bags to sell for a fortune on eBay. (PROSE: Legends of Camelot [+]Loading...["Legends of Camelot (novel)"])
Sarah Jane Smith found Travast Polong being sold on eBay, as the man who was selling it did not know what it was. She bought it to prevent it from getting in the wrong hands. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"])
In 2012, Sayed Khan decided to try selling the strange alien egg Yasmin had found in their grandfather's shed on eBay. (AUDIO: Fallout [+]Loading...["Fallout (audio story)"])
In 2015, the book Doctor X in an Amazing Adventure in Space could be found on eBay for 400 quid. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X [+]Loading...["In Search of Doctor X (short story)"])
In May 2019, a series of "ghost" sightings took place at the London Palladium after the stage manager mistakenly bought a working Time Projector on eBay, believing it to be a prop. The case was investigated by P.R.O.B.E., who discovered what had happened and confiscated the Projector. (WC: Shadow People [+]Loading...["Shadow People (webcast)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Master of Baker's End bought old, lurid books from "Ebay in a different dimension", slightly tangential to his own. They were delivered to Baker's End by a strange-looking postman. (PROSE: Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary [+]Loading...["Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary (short story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- While the website shown on-screen in Random Shoes was identified in dialogue as eBay, it did not match eBay's real-world appearance.
- After search-wise.net, eBay is the second website portrayed in televised Doctor Who Universe media which actually exists on the Internet, and was not put online as a marketing tie-in by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is the first real-world website portrayed performing the function it does in reality.
- According one source on the Torchwood website, Dogon sixth eyes began appearing on eBay after the Battle of Canary Wharf, and became very popular in Belgium.
