I've just been looking and it's not the first plane to be sold on ebay, in December 2000 there was a Spitfire Mark XVIII, bidding started at £1.2 million
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1065670.stm, also a US Navy Hornet fighter and a MiG-29 a snip at $99 million
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3495499.stm
I think the Spitfire would have been the one I would buy, just need to win the lottery now
