Recently we heard that a section of staircase from the Eiffel tower, the last section actually, was going to be auctioned off and was expected to go for somewhere around $29,000-$44,000. Boy, who ever predicted those amounts was WAY off. The auction took place on the 19th of this month and the old rusty chunk of the Eiffel Tower ended up closing at over $200,000 ($216,600 to be exact). The winning bidder was a Dutch entrepreneur named Erik Kurvers, who also happens to be the president of a Dutch basketball team aptly named the EiffelTowers.
