> > My Dave passed along a link on eBay that got our attention. I wonder how well "legally binding" bid contracts work for ultravaporized products like the 3dfx's POS Voodoo4 Graphics accelerator? :-)
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> *Ouch*!!! What a slap in 3dfx's mug! I especially liked the comparative screenshots of the sports car and the tree. :-)
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> I remember when the Earth was put up for auction on eBay by someone claiming to be God, who had gotten bored and dissatisfied with this project and wanted to start a new one somewhere else. The page had a picture of Earth taken from a satellite, and statistics such as approximate population, size, and so forth. It was pretty funny--I think the going rate was 10 billion dollars or so, and several bids had been placed.
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> I have to assume that in cases where the seller cannot produce the featured item, there is no legal obligation placed on the would-be buyer, either. Surely it must work out that way somehow.
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> Iss " 'Truth' was once put up for sale on eBay, as was 'the immortal soul of [somebody-or-other]' " achar


Well, I don't know about anybody's immortal soul, but I can tell you for sure that *I* am not for sale!

I've also heard that someone was trying to sell a kidney (the bids were over 1 million dollars), and someone else tried selling a baby (bids in the hundreds of thousands). Both were hoaxes, according to the news

Truth