A woman in Spain figures her financial future will be bright, since she claims to have exclusive rights to sell the hottest item out there -- the actual sun.
Maria Angeles Duran placed a series of posts on eBay offering to sell one square meter -- roughly ten square feet -- of the sun to anyone willing to send her a payment. She got more than 600 takers before the site stepped in to shut her down for fraud, but she produced paperwork proving that she actually owns the glowing orb in the sky -- which she registered locally in Vigo, Spain, where she lived about a year ago.
Duran filed the paperwork clear back in 2010 and sold several thousand dollars worth of parcels before eBay nixed the deal -- but still charged her commission, which she's demanding the company return. She says she's not a scammer -- and plans to sell off the sun bit by bit before dividing 80 percent of the profits across Spain, donating 10 percent to end world hunger, and keeping 10 percent for her trouble.
Maria Angeles Duran placed a series of posts on eBay offering to sell one square meter -- roughly ten square feet -- of the sun to anyone willing to send her a payment. She got more than 600 takers before the site stepped in to shut her down for fraud, but she produced paperwork proving that she actually owns the glowing orb in the sky -- which she registered locally in Vigo, Spain, where she lived about a year ago.
Duran filed the paperwork clear back in 2010 and sold several thousand dollars worth of parcels before eBay nixed the deal -- but still charged her commission, which she's demanding the company return. She says she's not a scammer -- and plans to sell off the sun bit by bit before dividing 80 percent of the profits across Spain, donating 10 percent to end world hunger, and keeping 10 percent for her trouble.