Olive Garden's unlimited pasta passes are selling on eBay for as much as $4,500

How much would you pay for endless pasta for seven weeks? One hundred dollars? Maybe a couple hundred?

How about $4,500?

That's how much at least one of the coveted passes for Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Bowl promotion was going for on eBay.

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The passes, as the name might suggest, give a diner endless access to the chain's Never Ending Pasta Bowl (complete with a sauce and topping of your choice, of course) between Oct. 3 and Nov. 20. They're priced at $100 each, and without a pass, you have to pony up $9.99 per dish.

Last year, when Olive Garden released 2,000 passes for the promotion, they sold out in less than a minute. This year, the company made more than 20,000 available, and they were snatched up in "less than a second," MarketWatch reports.

And if you're thinking to yourself, "Sure, endless fettuccine alfredo sounds good in theory, but surely it'd get old really quickly," consider this: In 2015, the average pass holder visited the Italian restaurant chain 28 times during the promotion.