--- title: LeSean McCoy Receipt With 20-Cent Tip Going for $80K on eBay description: Bidding for LeSean McCoy's receipt has topped $80,000 canonical: https://time.com/3379369/lesean-mccoy-ebay-receipt/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-15T19:09:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:13.062Z og:title: A Receipt From LeSean McCoy Is Blowing Up on eBay og:description: The Eagles running back left a 20-cent tip og:url: https://time.com/3379369/lesean-mccoy-ebay-receipt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Receipt From LeSean McCoy Is Blowing Up on eBay twitter:description: The Eagles running back left a 20-cent tip twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Receipt With 20-Cent Tip from Eagles Running Back Is Blowing Up on eBay > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 15, 2014 7:09 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 15, 2014 7:09 PM UTC A receipt from the Philadelphia restaurant PYT featuring a 20-cent tip (on a $61.56 bill) from Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean “Shady” McCoy is now going for [more than $80,000](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Football-NFL-Philadelphia-Eagles-LeSean-Shady-McCoys-20-cent-tip-receipt-/331318749411?pt=LH%5FDefaultDomain%5F0&hash=item4d2422e8e3) on eBay, the restaurant confirmed to TIME. Last week, McCoy said he left the unusually small tip because the waiter was [“being rude and disrespectful.”](http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-eagles/LeSean-McCoy-on-20-cent-tip.html#E19irKt8fyRz0i34.99) Now, the current owner of the receipt is trying to turn the stiffing into a force for good by giving the money back to the restaurant. The user behind the auction says the money from the final bid will be given as a massive tip to all the restaurant’s employees to thank them “for their hard work and dedication.” “The only thing we would like to ask on your end is for the winner to write a personalized note or card to the PYT staff, which we give to the staff along with the winning bid/tip,” the description reads. According to a manager at the restaurant that TIME spoke with, the restaurant’s owner gave the receipt to a friend before it wound up on eBay. McCoy signed a [$45 million](http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000393045/article/eagles-lesean-mccoy-defends-his-20cent-tip), five-year contract back in 2012. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3379369/lesean-mccoy-ebay-receipt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3379369/lesean-mccoy-ebay-receipt/"},"headline":"Receipt With 20-Cent Tip from Eagles Running Back Is Blowing Up on eBay","datePublished":"2014-09-15T19:09:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:13.062Z","description":"Bidding had surpassed $80,000 as of 3 p.m. ET on Monday","url":"https://time.com/3379369/lesean-mccoy-ebay-receipt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","NFL","eBay","celebrity","philadelphia eagles"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3379369/lesean-mccoy-ebay-receipt/","name":"Receipt With 20-Cent Tip from Eagles Running Back Is Blowing Up on eBay"}}]}] ```