Hi,
[OFF Topic, but quite funny and indicative of the times we are in ;-)]
Using his parents' eBay account, an eighth-grader named Andrew Tyler bid more than $3M on items such as $1.2M for a medical office in Jacksonville, $.5M for a Van Gogh painting, $35,000 for a Viking ship replica, $120,000 for the first Superman comic. He also bid on a 1955 Ford convertible, a 1971 Corvette, and a bed that once belonged to Canada's first prime minister-- for which he offered $900,000 on the previous bid of $12,000. In addition to high-bidding the bed, he had four other successful bids, and clearly upped the ante on others. It was apparently just like another computer game to him. Yes, you might ask, eBay has a policy against under-aged bidders, but until now it has been on the honor system. [Source: USA Today - Tech Report, 29 Apr 1999; PGN-ed]
-Raj |
