Comments on: Weekend Roundup: Found Money, Luck, and Really Old Beer

By: sheri

sheri — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:43:28 +0000

Err .. scratch the comment about the other bidders. That is apparently what ebay does to names now instead of displaying them.

But still.. the comment!

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sheri — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:42:06 +0000

If you look at the bids, all of them except the last are fake-looking names. Just bidding it up really high.

The buyer left a kind feedback for the seller too. http://myworld.ebay.com/collectordan/

No feedback for the buyer yet, but it’s only been a couple days. I’m going to guess he doesn’t pay.

Interesting though!

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handworn — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:51:32 +0000

I was pretty surprised by both bids. $304 is nothing for a sealed bottle of beer that old. But half a mill, yeah, wayyy too much.

I was surprised to see the suggestion that it was a fake, ’cause the high bidder had 44 feedbacks, 100% positive. ID theft?

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scales — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:38:35 +0000

according to this the half million dollar bid was a fake:

but the guy has subsequently had presumably legit “six figure offers”

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Matt Haughey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:51:36 +0000

The consensus on MetaFilter was that the high auction price in the hundreds of thousands was a hoax.

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