Every now and then we get some interesting once in a lifetime items on sella. Spotted last week, a fine piece of John F Kennedy’s hair and all the supporting documents. This could be your chance to grab a piece of extremely rare and collectable piece of history.
Top 10 things you can do with JFK’s hair
8. DIY Presidential Haircut
Paris Hiltons next lot of hair extensions
Send to Mythbusters for testing if hair is flammable
Use the DNA contained in the hair to make JFK clones
Use it as part of a re-enactment of the JFK shooting
Join the authentic JFK fan club
Ask not what this hair can do for you – ask what you can do for this hair
Use as a replacement for number 8 wire
DIY presidential haircut
Relist it on sella with no fees
Leave a comment and tell us what you think number 10 should be
Ever thought of running the length of New Zealand? Sergeant Alexander McKenzie has already done the equivalent of this four times in 2009, and he has no plans to stop just yet.
McKenzie has already run more than 7000 kilometres this year as he trains to be one of the first New Zealand representatives at the 24 Hour Ultra Distance Commonwealth Running Championships
McKenzie is one of only three athletes, and the only male, who has been picked to represent New Zealand at the inaugural event in Keswick England in September.
Running up to 35 Kilometres per day for training McKenzie has found a novel and inspirational way to train – do it for charity. Recently he featured in the ‘Big Night In’ Telethon where he ran over 200 kilometres in 22 hours on a treadmill down at Alinghi Base.
“It was pretty crazy, the treadmill faced out into a path where all the BNI spectators were streaming past from right to left. It started to feel like I was on a ship and made balancing pretty hard” McKenzie said.
This is not the first time McKenzie has used his intensive sport for good – earlier this year he completed a base-to-base run to raise funds for CanTeen, a charity close to his heart as his nephew was diagnosed with cancer early last year.
McKenzie ran continuously for 140km, starting out at Linton Army Camp and finishing at the old defence headquarters in Wellington with several town mayors joining him on route.
140Km is still considered warm up territory though:
“The current New Zealand record for an Ultra Marathon is 247 Kilometres in 24 hours, that’s nearly six back to back marathons. Let’s just say that I’m hoping to give that a bit of a nudge at Keswick.”
As with so many New Zealand athletes – there is a lot of talent and not necessarily a lot of money. Sergeant McKenzie was up in Auckland today where he paid a visit to online sella.co.nz, New Zealand’s largest FREE auction site.
As a key sponsor of the ‘Big Night In’ sella shared some space with Sergeant McKenzie at the event and were particularly impressed with his efforts.
“We were all absolutely exhausted simply by being at the telethon for 24 hours, this guy ran the whole time.” said Shane Bradley, founder of sella.
“We wanted to see if there was something we could do to support him – turns out he loves Mizuno shoes so we talked to the guys and have tee’d up with a couple of pairs of his favourites.”
These are no average shoes, McKenzie has been known to wear a pair of shoes out in less than three weeks yet with a pair of Mizunos on his feet he has clocked up to 1300KM before they have gone bust.
“It’s just a little thing but an important one” Finished Bradley.
“Every dollar counts for so many of our athletes who have to fund themselves to get on the world stage, and seeing as Sergeant McKenzie had spent so much of his time raising funds for others it was the least we could do.”
Following on from the telethon sella.co.nz has been growing like crazy. Traffic has grown 50% week on week to over 105,000 users each week. We are on track to have 350,000 users this month! up from 260,000 in July.
Total listings on the site crept over 90,000 this morning which is huge – getting closer to the magical 100,000 mark.
The best part is that our number of bids and items sold are well over 300% growth over our previous weeks which is fantastic. This is not just growth that happened for 1 weekend, its the sustained growth that has occured the days after telethon.
We have only been going for 9 months, but it looks like everyone is liking what they see.
Thanks for your support, we have many more features to come in the next 5 months which we look forward to showing you.
Like any growing business we love any media exposure we can get our hands on. You can use this time to expose your business to new users, introduce new products or promotions, or even thank those hard working employees you have …..
This morning between the hours of 4am and 5:30am our email provider, Campaign Monitor, experienced difficulties with a number of their customers, including sella.co.nz
This resulted in a number of old and draft sella emails being sent to a select group of sella members. This activity was completely out of the control of sella, however we are still working as hard as we can to understand and remedy this issue.
We have been assured by Campaign Monitor that this issue has now been resolved.
On Friday sella had the chance to meet John Key as part of the Big Night In build up. John was invited out to meet the children at Otahuhu Primary School, and also to see the amazing “New Zealand Apple”. The Big Night In is on the 8th and 9th of August and there are going to be over 150 auctions on sella.
If your dad’s a petrol head how about a 540 horsepower ride in a Lamborghini Murcielago V12 Supercar? The rides in Whitianga so why not buy a GPS and radar detector as well for the drive home (just in case).
