On average, people in D.C. need to buy 13 gifts.

Virginians buy gardening and patio items, while Maryland snatches up men’s shoes.

An employee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority was arrested this week on charges that he allegedly stole emergency medical equipment from multiple Metro locations and sold it online, the transit agency said today.

Patrick Mara: Republican, D.C. Council candidate, prolific eBay seller.

Sen. Chuck Schumer is cracking down on the Internet entrepreneurs who simply want to make a few quick bucks off of President Obama’s inauguration next Monday.

Lots of people were upset when the Capital City Diner closed in late January. And while the most anyone could walk away with was a last meal and maybe a picture of the iconic diner, now everyone has the chance to own the ultimate memento—the actual diner.

In this morning’s roundup, we noted that Leslie Charles Waffen, a former National Archives employee, was scheduled to appear in a Maryland court on charges that he stole almost a thousand “sound recording items” belonging to the federal government. Today, Waffen admitted he stole the items, but that really isn’t the most interesting part of the story.

Because D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham’s got two — and they can be all yours, if the price is right. Graham, who has been complaining about the way that the Council’s tickets to events at the Verizon Center were being doled out by Council Chairman Kwame Brown, put his Council tickets for tonight’s Gaga concert up for auction on eBay.

No, of course it isn’t. But that isn’t stopping people from pretending it is. This baseball card (look, it’s important to keep in mind that’s what we’re talking about here), a one-of-a-kind 2010 Bowman depicting and autographed by Washington Nationals stud rookie Stephen Strasburg, is currently up for auction on eBay. Based on the description, it is more valuable than a “Superfractor,” which sounds less like a baseball card and more like something Lex…

You might be able to rent your living quarters for Inauguration weekend at wildly inflated prices — but you can forget about selling a ticket to the Inauguration ceremony on eBay. So says Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who, according to the Post, contacted eBay, StubHub, and other ticket resale sites last week to inform them that she plans on drafting legislation to criminalize such sales. (And yes, Feinstein’s even gotten through to your shifty friend…