Oxford Students put Bodleian Libray and books on eBay UK over debt protest
Published June 1st, 2006
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Cheeky students put Oxford University’s Bodleian library and its entire stock of books up for sale on Internet auction website eBay in a protest over debt.
The historic building and its contents have a reserve price of £189m the estimated student debt incurred by Oxford’s 11,000 undergraduates.
Bids were up to £10m by yesterday afternoon before eBay took the auction off its site.
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