Peaches
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Peaches charity underwear auction in eBay controversy The singer's underpants are removed from the site Peaches' underpants have being removed from
eBay after the online auction site deemed the lot "unsuitable" for sale.
The singer is among a string of artists who have donated personal items and time to raise money for
Three Gut Records founder and visual artist
Tyler Clark Burke.
The auction is aiming to raise money to buy
Burke, who is experiencing family health problems, a home. Twenty per cent of the proceeds will also go to charity
Habitat For Humanity.
However the site's administrators deemed the used thong donated by
Peaches as unsuitable for sale via
eBay.
"The
Peaches auction was yanked because it was apparently against the
eBay adult content mandate - no used underwear, no matter what,"
Burke told
NME.COM, before adding that fans still have a chance of buying the old pair of pants.
"What I'm going to do is actually auction off a ball of peach yarn so
eBay won't pull it again," said
Burke. "The winner of this yarn will also get a free pair of used
Peaches' thong undies, which I'll explain on my site, not on
eBay. She's donated a nice pink mesh thong."
Along with the underwear, other lots in the auction include the chance to have
Broken Social Scene write a song about you and the opportunity to pen a track with
Feist.