Apple Store Cracked Stair Sells for $9,500 in eBay Auction
The intact side of the 250lb stair from Apple's 5th Ave. store
Controversy pays: after going public about pressure from glass company Seele over the eBay sale of a fractured stair, former Apple employee Mark Burstiner sold the cracked keepsake for $9,950.
It comes from the spiral staircase in Apple’s 5th avenue store, Burstiner saved the glass heading to the trash after it was fractured by a customer’s Snapple bottle.
The final sale price is about four times what Burstiner first thought a 250lb glass stair from the staircase was worth, $2,500.
We can’t wait to hear the buyer gets the thing home and what they do with it. And whether the suits will have any more to say about it.
Stay tuned.
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco native who has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. You can find her on 
