For bid on eBay: 1 Senate seat, slightly worn

For sale: a U.S. Senate seat that's (bleeping) golden!

Suburban eBayers and entrepreneurs are having some fun - and in some cases, raising money for charity - by joking about Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to auction off Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.

In the past 24 hours, dozens of eBayers have created auctions for "a U.S. Senate seat." The listing by Marengo resident Tom Hugley, 33, was for an actual prison toilet seat. Arlington Heights student Mark Nadolski, 21, was using his auction to raise money for Children's Memorial Hospital, one of Blagojevich's alleged pay-to-play victims. Several of the auctions are for actual chairs.

Each listing, which cost 15 cents to post, has been viewed by thousands of people. Some went ahead and bid a few cents or dollars. Others just posted joke questions.

"One person asked me if it comes with an I-PASS," said Tony Iarrobino, 43, of Naperville, who had 53 people bid on his "seat" before eBay removed the listing Wednesday afternoon, when the high bidder was offering $99,999,999. "People are asking me, 'Can I use government bonds to pay?' And I say, 'No, you can use the money from the bailout!' Everyone's getting a bailout these days."

For Hugley's prison toilet, someone wrote, "That toilet seat looks too clean for Illinois politics? Do you have one A LOT dirtier?"

eBay removed many of the listings, because "while humorous to some ... they do not constitute a tangible item or service that the seller can offer," said eBay spokesman Usher Lieberman.

CafePress.com is getting in on the selling action, too, and is already hawking more than 100 products related to the Blagojevich arrest, including a $24.99 "Insanevich" ceramic travel mug and an $18.60 T-shirt that says, "I gave Blagojevich a bribe and all I got was this lousy (expletive deleted) T-shirt."