Article: RESTAURANT SELLER TURNS TO BIGGEST MENU OF ALL - EBAY.(Business)(The owner of the Fifth Street Public Market's Chelsea Grill & Pub is touting his business on the giant online auction site)

Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard

Brian Parker wants to sell his Chelsea Grill & Pub in Eugene's Fifth Street Public Market, and he's taken his pitch to a pool of 135 million potential buyers worldwide.

On eBay.

"It was just an option," Parker says. "I had advertised it locally ... with mixed results.

"This cost me $370, and there's a lot of people that look at eBay. You're getting the whole world, virtually. I've had contacts already from Hawaii and Florida."

The Chelsea Grill was one of 451 listings as of Friday in eBay's commercial real estate subcategory, including 11 Oregon businesses.

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