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"&lt;img alt=\"Joe Paterno\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/01/24/0124-joepa-ebay-bn-getty.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't count on buying a ticket to &lt;strong&gt;Joe Paterno&lt;/strong&gt;'s funeral on eBay -- because the auction site just pulled ALL Paterno funeral ticket listings, claiming the tickets violate one of the website's policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rep for eBay tells TMZ they don't \"allow the sale of tickets to events in which all tickets are free to the public.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rep adds, \"In accordance with the policy, eBay will not allow the sale of tickets to Joe Paterno's memorial service.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Multiple tickets flooded the auction site this morning after they were made available -- for free -- to the Penn State community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bids for the tickets POURED IN. One auction for a pair of passes even reached $99,509 before eBay pulled it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br dir=\"ltr\" id=\"tinymce\" class=\"mceContentBody \" contenteditable=\"true\" /&gt;Paterno's memorial service is scheduled for this Thursday at Penn State's 16,000-seat&lt;br /&gt;basketball arena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2012/01/21/4308-remembering-joe-paterno\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0121_joe_paterno_remembering_getty\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/01/21/0121-joe-paterno-remembering-getty.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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