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eBay Pays A $61 Million Bootleg Tax

We’d be lying if we said we never tried to woo a trifey with some $15 knockoff Louis Vuitton flip-flops—but hey, it’s a victimless crime, right? Maybe not, according to the French court that yesterday ordered eBay to pay $61 million to high-end titan LVMH for slanging counterfeit luxury goods.

As part of the lawsuit, LVMH claimed that 90% of the LV bags and Dior perfumes sold on eBay are fugazi, while the online auction site was content to rake in the money. Tiffany has a similar case against eBay pending in the U.S., which got us thinking about some of the most entertaining online frauds in recent memory. Check out a few classic bogus auctions after the jump.

The guy who tried to sell his imaginary friend.

The Romanian town of Dragasani, whose main source of income was eBay scams.

The Australian went to jail for selling three people the same gold nugget.