Editor’s note: For Sale is a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events.

This decade’s format war has concluded, with Wal-Mart and Netflix firing the last shots into a staggering HD DVD. Reuters (based on a Japanese news source) has reported that Toshiba will drop support for its hidef discs.

The company source told Reuters that Toshiba was in the final stages of planning to exit the HD DVD business and that an official decision would be made soon.

So, if you’re looking for a dirt cheap HD DVD to stick next to your Betamax (for nostalgia’s sake), they should drop down to pennies per player on eBay soon. I’ll be curious to see if people flood eBay with HD DVD listings to try and recoup the cost of their players and movies before the non-gadget oriented learn the format is dead. The current stats on eBay are:

HD-DVD listings (players and movies)

9,227 active listings
21,009 completed listings – sold and unsold

Blu-Ray listings (players and movies)

8,045 active listings
22,578 completed listings – sold and unsold

As always, any links to eBay items will eventually die when eBay removes them from its servers. Any statistics may change within just a couple of hours.

Editor’s note: For Sale is a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events.

During Valentine’s Day parties as a kid, I remember getting little handmade cards with those hard heart candies glued/stuck to them. We all got those, right? But for the life of me, I can’t remember what we used to glue the candies to the cards. Was there some groovy, edible glue we had to do that with, or were we all just slapping some Elmer’s down and calling it good? Maybe we weren’t supposed to eat the candy glued to the cards. But I did. Surely that doesn’t happen now, or else Fox News would be running some expose about kids across the country getting deathly ill due to glue consumption. Parents thrown in jail for abuse, schools closed by lawsuits, and the complete and utter collapse of the entire hard heart candy business in America. All because of a little glue. Thank goodness things have changed.

If that didn’t warm your heart, we’ll put one more nail in the romantic coffin with some throughts from Brian Alexander at MSNBC on those romantic myths we all hold so dear.

The truth, though, is that while knights may have sworn vows of chaste love to their ladies, in real life they often went around raping the village girls.

Now, on to the stats:

• 28,153 active listings feature the term Valentine.
• 133,656 completed (sold and unsold) listings featuring the term Valentine.

And for that special woman in your life that hates men, buy her this pig.

As always, any links to eBay items will eventually die when eBay removes them from its servers. Any statistics may change within just a couple of hours.

Editor’s note: For Sale will be a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events.

Every Super Tuesday, pundits and politicians stick their heads out of their holes to predict whether we’ll have four more years of partisan bickering or….four more years of partisan bickering. Always a tough call.

Anyway, pickings are pretty slim on eBay for “Super Tuesday” auctions.

22 completed listings in the last two weeks (9 Sold)
19 active listings plus 5 store items

Several Obama buttons (Superbama is my favorite), one Rudy bumper sticker, couple of crappy domain names and the ever popular Dominatrix Hillary.

As always, any links to eBay items will eventually die when eBay removes them from its servers. Any statistics may change within just a couple of hours.