Posted on 01/04/2010 11:46:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
A man in the U.S. has 'bought' an item on Amazon with a price tag of nearly three billion dollars - just to see what would happen.
Brian Klug spotted the copy of the Discovery Channel's 'Cells' CD-ROM for sale at $2,904,980,000 (£1,800,979,540).
Out of sheer curiosity, convinced the price tag was a mistake, he put in his credit card details to buy it and stepped back to see what would happen next.
First off, Mr Klug from San Mateo, California, was charged $3.99 for posting and handling.
Mr Klug has posted on the Reddit website links to the Amazon site and confirmation of his purchase. One Reddit commentatator posted: 'This is going to end poorly, I can feel it.'
'Might be a good morning to buy Amazon stock,' wrote another, while a third pointed out that had Mr Klug had Amazon's Visa three per cent rewards card, thus entitling him to roughly $87million in rewards.
Some suggested Mr Klug pay in Zimbabwean dollars, while one left a note saying: 'Dear Sir: I hereby award you a gold star for your gallant efforts in propping up the US economy.'
'Geez, at least they could pick up the postal charges,' was the sentiment of many, while others voiced hopes that Mr Klug actually has Win98 - the only operating system the CD-ROM can run on.
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Can I borrow $3 billion to try to outbid this guy?
Apply for stimulus money.
I’d never pay a penny over $2,000,000,000 for that cd-rom...that guy got ripped off, geez!
Well it's obvious what would have happened. A thread making fun of the guy would be posted to Free Republic under Breaking News - only to be moved to CHAT by the moderators - where Freepers would attempt to leave pithy comments about the intelligence of the fool (or lack thereof).
What will happen? The feds will hire him to help plan the next TARP.
Maybe the mob has found a new way to launder money.
And just wait until he finds out that those girls are actresses, no actual coeds engaging in first-time lesbian experimentation.
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