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Apple Store Cracked Stair Sells for $9,500 in eBay Auction

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.

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  • Chris

    Wow. I wish I had 10 grand to spend on a broken step :p

  • http://geekbubble.com Geekbubble

    Wow, somebody actually shelled out that much for a broken shard of glass! Can’t wait to find out how they will use it.

  • Ryan Thompson

    I think the guy played everyone. It generated far more buzz than he thought, and he realized his initial price was a little low. Interest in the item was a novelty and with the looming threat of apple legal it became a controversy. No one was bidding when it was just a step.

    I could be wrong…

  • Don Pope

    Wow, some people don’t deserve to have money.

  • http://ObamaPacman.com ObamaPacman

    Original auction ended with 0 bids with reserve lowered to $200.