Arthur Rosenblat said he stopped the bidding for the chair at $25,000 because he received hundreds of e-mail complaints about the online auction, which had been scheduled to continue through Dec. 11.
"What we have here for your bidding pleasure is Tennessee's original Old Sparky, complete with full documentation and ... a legal affidavit as to authenticity," said the description of the item, which was removed from the eBay Web site on Tuesday.
Rosenblat, an antique dealer, would not identify the successful bidder, but he said the buyer intends to put the oak chair in a Tennessee museum.
He said he purchased the chair and its hardware, including electrodes and leather straps, from Fred Leuchter, a Boston-based "engineer of execution technology," who scrapped most of the chair after he was given a contract to refurbish it in 1988.
The chair is complete except for the rear legs, which were used for the revamped chair that was placed in west Nashville's Riverbend prison in 1989.
The Tennessee Correction Department, which originally questioned the authenticity of the chair, declined comment on the sale.
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