{"id":305,"date":"2007-02-06T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2007\/02\/06\/interesting-ebay-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:27:12","slug":"interesting-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2007\/02\/06\/interesting-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting eBay Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma Wesleyan University is <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/One-year-of-college-tuition-room-and-board_W0QQitemZ290080517719QQihZ019QQcategoryZ88433QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">auctioning off<\/a> on eBay a package that contains one year of tuition, room, and board.\u00a0 The cost of books is not included.\u00a0 The winning bidder can purchase this offer for a friend or relative, and give it to them as a gift.\u00c2\u00a0 However, ultimately the recipient of the gift must meet all standard application requirements for the 2007-2008 school years.\u00c2\u00a0 If it is for someone who is not yet a student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, they must submit an application by March 1, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The auction also states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"body_text_13\">&#8220;The recipient must apply for all financial aid (Federal, State, and Institutional) through the Oklahoma Wesleyan University Student Financial Services Office. If after all financial aid has been awarded it is determined by Oklahoma Wesleyan University representatives that the student attending owes less than the winning bid, that lesser amount will be the only amount due.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oklahoma Wesleyan University is located in Bartlesville, OK, and is ranked #12 in comprehensive colleges and universities in the West by the US News &amp; World Report. <span class=\"body_text_13\">Tuition at the school costs $23,000 for the year, so one lucky student <em>might<\/em> be able to snag a year of college at a discounted rate. The current bid is at $16,200.00 with 25 bids.\u00c2\u00a0 The auction ends <\/span>February 13, 2007 at 27:26 PST.\u00c2\u00a0 Judging by the way bidding is going, it probably won&#8217;t end up being that much of a discount.<\/p>\n<p>The school is apparently doing this auction as a way to get Oklahoma Wesleyan University some more interest and potential applicants, as well as to create some marketing buzz.\u00c2\u00a0 eBay will make a nice chunk of change off the sale, and the school is already gaining lots of press, with the AP story syndicated in many newspapers.<span class=\"body_text_13\"><span class=\"body_text_13\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma Wesleyan University is auctioning off on eBay a package that contains one year of tuition, room, and board.\u00a0 The cost of books is not included.\u00a0 The winning bidder can purchase this offer for a friend or relative, and give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}