I received an email from a friend sending me to a YouTube video.

Seems that Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way“. The parody is called “eBay“.  

Some guys took the Weird Al Yankovic song about eBay and added some video.

Here is that video. (Note that if you are clicking on my blog, depending on your browser security you may need to click twice to start the video.)

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It was cute. I liked it. But I noted that the Farrah Fawcett poster used was not the Farrah Fawcett poster … the one that sold a still unrivled 12 million copies!

That got me thinking. I wondered, have others done this. So I checked and they have.

I liked this one because the images are actual screens from the ebay site. They appear to be camera shots instead of screen captures and they aren’t great shots, but I still like it.

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So, what others are available?

This one had some good stuff.

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Last is one of my favorites. The typography is clever and I really liked the use of the Tribbles for Shatner’s old toupe.

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 By the way … the Yankovic’s “ebay” was actually performed live at eBay Live! 2003. There is no “official” video of that event, but a poor quality video from the audience is here:

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