Golf, owned by Angela Merkel, pulled from auction due to a joke

The administration of the online auction eBay has suspended bidding for a Volkswagen Golf for sale and owned by Angela Merkel, German Chancellor. As the Berliner Kurier was informed on Monday 16 April, it was in the best interests of the seller that the decision was made to end the auction..

According to the publication, the lot attracted the attention of a huge number of Internet users who left an application for the purchase of a car «for fun» and did not plan to purchase it. The auction value of the car, which was put up for sale on April 5 for ten thousand euros, as a result, at the time of the termination of trading, reached the level of one hundred and thirty thousand euros..

The car auction will be resumed later in a limited format: potential buyers will need to provide their personal details along with a copy of the passport.