Man sells $90 video game for 9,100 dollars

Sounds like a great dad?

I always lean toward calling :bs: on stories people put in their listing to get sympathy bids.
 
Watch as all the current Wii postings on eBay get taken down, so they can be redited to say "I'm selling my son's Xmas present because he was being naughty and doing crack cocaine".
 
Didn't this happen with some DS's two years ago? Not so much with the pot, but a parent being mad at the kids and slapping them on ebay with the "punishment" story.

I seem to remember "this money's going to charity" in there too.
 
But now all that time he would have been playing GH3, he will now be smoking pot.

But like Wubb said, I think that is just some BS.
 
Best line: "The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard."

Gameboard....is that Canadian for gaming platform, maybe? Eh?
 
Did he really get payment on this or is that just the winning eBay bid?

Seems really unlikely that someone would actually folk over that kind of money for no good reason.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Did he really get payment on this or is that just the winning eBay bid?

Seems really unlikely that someone would actually folk over that kind of money for no good reason.[/quote]
Maybe the high bidder got in on some loonies early, before the dollar tanked?

Edit:
Well, the high bidder was Australian. So just substitute "loonies" for Australian dollars.
 
I think this is about $2,000 underpriced when you adjust for inflation and the markup for exporting games to the far off land of Australia.
 
I'm thinking the same way as Cheepy here, anyone can run up an ebay auction, but to get paid, that seems nuts.

Though, assuming the story is real, this might teach the kid a lesson. He'll forever link the game with the punishment, and he will have to feel rather stupid when he could have been playing on Christmas, and instead, he's sitting there forced to watch horrible Christmas tv.
 
[quote name='CheapyD']Did he really get payment on this or is that just the winning eBay bid?

Seems really unlikely that someone would actually folk over that kind of money for no good reason.[/QUOTE]

My thoughts exactly after reading it this morning. If some Aussie has $9,100 to throw away I'm pretty sure he could have scored 10+ Wii's in his own country regardless of it's rarity. We know he could have scored 20+ systems on eBay alone with that kind of dough. This sounded like BS at 7:30 and now that the OP has posted it here it hasn't changed.:bs:
 
[quote name='kevlar51']Didn't this happen with some DS's two years ago? Not so much with the pot, but a parent being mad at the kids and slapping them on ebay with the "punishment" story.[/quote]
Was it was one where a kid drank a bottle of the mother's wine & she sold his PS2 to make up the money for the wine(or something like that)?

As for this one, I doubt the winning bidder will actually pay(especially since this is one of the copies that only have mono sound).
 
[quote name='tangytangerine']Was it was one where a kid drank a bottle of the mother's wine & she sold his PS2 to make up the money for the wine(or something like that)?

As for this one, I doubt the winning bidder will actually pay(especially since this is one of the copies that only have mono sound).[/quote]

Ha, hadn't heard of the PS2 sale.

How funny would it be if the guy backed out of the sale because it had mono instead of stereo? "Crikey, this doesn't even have stereo; there's no way that's worth $9,100, mate."
 
I bet the kid could buy a lot of pot with that cash.

And imagine the final value fees incurred by the seller if the buyer backs out and the dad is unaware of NPB strikes!
 
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