The high demand for Target's Lilly Pulitzer line is evident on eBay with items now priced higher than they originally sold for at Target. Colorful dresses and home goods that originally sold for less than $40 have asking prices of more than $100. Target's spokesman Joshua Thomas called the eBay markups "really disappointing" in an interview Sunday with USA TODAY. However, it's not unusual because limited product lines are often seen as collectors' items, he said. The company does not plan to restock the product line. People lined up at Target stores nationwide and bombarded its website Sunday to buy items from a limited-time Lilly Pulitzer product line. Customers quickly emptied shelves and the items were sold out online by noon ET. The frantic scene ." The selling frenzy has gotten backlash. A movement started on Facebook to boycott the inflated eBay prices. The group's profile reads: "Boycott Ebay sellers who are marking up Lilly by Target after clearing shelves of merchandise only to turn a profit."

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Target price: $30 for a set of four bowls, $35 for a set of four plates eBay price: The starting bid for a set of bowls and plates is $189.99 and the "buy it now" price is $249.99. Women's satin dress - Nosie Posey pattern eBay price: The starting bid is $250 and the "buy it now" price is $335.00. Women's maxi dress - Nosie Posey pattern eBay price: The starting bid is $255 and the "buy it now" price is $325. swivel love chair for sale Weekender Bag - Upstream pattern wooden rocking chairs for sale melbourne eBay price: The starting bid is $76 and the "buy it now" price is $125. Ceramic mugs with gold caddy, set of four eBay price: "Buy it now" for $165 or best offer. Follow @lagrisham on TwitterForget the surreal prospect of a trafficless Times Square. Never mind the progressive transportation agenda.

The scene-stealing star of the city’s newly opened, $1.5 million pedestrian plaza project may be its fleet of folding lawn chairs, humble refugees from the Ace Hardware catalog that have colonized the Broadway pavement. In candy-stripe shades of pink, blue and green, the 376 rubber folding chairs and loungers are an unlikely import from the sphere of suburban swimming pools and budget trips to the beach. Average purchase price: about $15 apiece, or 0.001 percent of the project’s total budget. Since their Memorial Day debut, the chairs have quickly entered the zeitgeist, earning criticism from the mayor and wonderment from pedestrians, who have pronounced them both tacky and endearing. The obligatory merchandise tie-in has already appeared: a pair of local designers produced a T-shirt that replaces the heart in “I ♥ New York” with a lounge chair. A few dozen have already sold. “I’ve had people say to me both that it’s a stroke of genius and that I’m the king of trailer trash,” said Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, the business group that oversees furniture decisions for the plaza.

“The lawn chair decision is far and away the most controversial decision I’ve made in my seven years as head of the alliance.” “People seem to be jumping right past the issue of whether there should be this pedestrian space to what it should look like,” he added. Like penicillin and Silly Putty, the chairs were an accidental discovery. Six days before the unveiling of New York’s biggest pedestrian project in years, Mr. Tompkins realized he had a problem: there was no place to sit. Permanent furniture was on order, but the arrival date was August. Months of thoughtful planning would be no match for hordes of tired tourists with nowhere to rest. “Literally we were going out to whoever we knew to see where we could hustle up a few hundred lawn chairs,” Mr. Tompkins said. Faced with finding a temporary solution, Mr. Tompkins did what any pragmatic New Yorker would: he ran around the corner to his local hardware store, in this case American Home Hardware & More on Ninth Avenue.

“He said he needed 150 of them. I said to him, ‘Are you out of your mind?’ ” recalled Felix Atlasman, the store’s owner. Nothing in stock appealed to Mr. Tompkins, so Mr. Atlasman faxed over a few black-and-white pages from a catalog. Despite a brown-and-tan color scheme, model No. BY405-0786 caught Mr. Tompkins’s eye. A simple plastic webbed folding chair, it was the kind of thing “our grandmothers used to bring to the beach on the Jersey Shore,” he said. Sold, 150 at $19.99 apiece. (Later, the group bought several loungers in the same style, at $28.34 each.) Meanwhile, an alliance security supervisor called up an old friend in Brooklyn: Matthew Pintchik, whose eponymous hardware store is a Park Slope staple. “They didn’t want to spend a lot of money because clearly whatever was invested in these chairs would be disposed of,” Mr. Pintchik recalled in a telephone interview. He offered the alliance a discount on a line of Ace Hardware neon green and pink rubber chairs, 200 at $10.74 apiece.

The store has since received calls about whether the model is still available for purchase. “People liked the fact that they were sort of campy,” said Mr. Pintchik’s brother, Michael. “It’s too bad we didn’t know, otherwise we would have ordered them in bulk.” Despite the daily wear and tear, attrition has stayed low. After two weeks, only 25 of the nearly 400 chairs and loungers have been taken out of service. Fifteen others were reported stolen, and two more were picked off by an errant fire truck, according to Mr. Tompkins. (“It wasn’t going fast,” he added hastily.) In some ways, the attention paid to the chairs reflects the more consequential civic debate at the heart of the Broadway project: what is the best use of public space? “Some people say this is kind of cheesy and fun, and that’s part of Times Square’s identity,” Mr. Tompkins said. “But there’s just as many people who say, no, this is a special place and we should have something more special.”