I'm Xenophobic

It's all about shipping costs. They are lower if I keep it to the US.

Really, there's nothing stopping any of you from doing the same thing, so if you want to sell internationally, please do!

I think he means "shipping costs" 

Awesome idea, electronic  "Gift Certificates", redeemable in BTC at your favourite supplier.

Could be electronic images, pdf documents of value, whatever ...

Why is the certificate not signed by your PGP key?

That would be because, like most people, I don't have one!

Anyway, even if I did make one, it would be new/untrusted, and it would just confuse 99.9% of people on Ebay who saw the auction.

I'm going offline for the evening - you guys all bid so I can be happy tomorrow morning, k?

If the auction ended right now, some lucky person would get their bitcoins for just over $1 each

Hopefully I'll have some snipers when it ends.

Great idea , I hope this works and you don´t get trouble with ebay.

Would it a lot of extra trouble to sell smaller lots?

I want some carrots.

Bidding is at $53 with one hour left. There may be a frenzy of sniping at the end (I hope), but if not, these bitcoins will be sold at $3.71 each! (MtGox is currently at $3.88 each)

Once Ebay takes their 9% and PayPal takes their 3%, that means I would get $3.26 each for my bitcoins (even less than that, depending on how much shipping costs). Even if I sell at a loss, I will still do at least one more auction. I'd like to establish whether this is a viable way to sell coins, even if I have to lose some money doing it.

If I make a substantial profit, I will definitely do more auctions, and I'm sure some of you will too.

Great idea and I hope it works well; Sorry to hear about the high fees.
Please, tell me if the seller protection costs you extra, or is it "free" since you are shipping the gift cert.