NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -
Armchair survivalists can capture their favorite Survivor: Pearl Islands mementos on eBay as the program's producers team up with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation for a charity auction.
Thus far the partnership has raised more than $600,000 from four previous Survivor auctions, and it is expecting to net another $100,000 from the current auction, which began on Monday and runs through Christmas Eve.
A couple items had bids well above $5,000 on the third day of the auction. The voting urn with the final ballots -- used to determine who won the $1 million prize -- was at $6,100 by 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, while the price of the Killer Wood Scoreboard, one of the props used on the show, hit $16,100.
The highest selling item from previous auctions was the voting urn from Survivor: Australia, which sold for $10,098.
Approximately 20 new items were posted Monday to Wednesday, including torches used by the final three contestants.
"We are trying to put up a couple of big items each [of these days] just to keep it exciting," said Tara Dhar, the spokesperson for the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation.
Survivor fan Stephanie Owens says she has watched nearly every episode from every series and is bidding on a model ship, which is selling for $1,225, and a signed shirt and five-minute phone call from host Jeff Probst, worth $900.
"My father is a U.S. Coast Guard captain and he loves the show just as much [as I do]. So this would be the coolest gift to get him," she said in reference to the model ship.
Rival bidder W. Gore also wants to lay claim to the model ship and is waiting till the very end to make a final push for the item.
"I expect these things to go pretty high because of the AIDS Foundation and the end-of-the-year [tax write-off]," he told CNN/Money.
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