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- Ebay is the biggest online auction site.
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You could buy anything
on it from used dentures,
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broken calculators,
designer clothes, cars,
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and everything in between.
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The site is so big that any given time
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there's an estimated 800
million items for sale.
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Some of which are ridiculous,
yet worth a fortune.
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Hear 10 of the stupidest things people
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have paid a fortune for on Ebay.
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Number 10, guinea pig armor.
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Yup, you heard right.
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The next time your guinea
pig heads off to war,
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it needs to be dressed for battle.
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Is your pet guinea pig tired
of wandering around the house
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unarmored and vulnerable
asks Ebay seller Sean MaCoy
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from Fairfax, Virginia.
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Apparently he bought the helmet
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already made for his guinea pig, Lucky
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but unable to find a chain
mail outfit small enough,
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crafted one himself.
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Sadly little Lucky passed
away, leaving Sean to find
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a new home for his tiny suit of armor.
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The original winning bid
reached a staggering $24,300
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only for the bidder to back out.
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It later returned to Ebay
and was sold for $1,150
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with all the money going to the
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Metropolitan Guinea Pig Rescue.
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It might be pretty far
off $24,000 but who else
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thinks $1,150 is a lot
of money to pay for your
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guinea pig to play dress up?
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Number 9, a camera used by Usain Bolt.
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No, this camera didin't
exactly belong to Usain Bolt.
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It was just temporarily stolen
by him for a few moments
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before he etched his name in
the body with a screw driver.
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When a Swedish photography,
Jimmy Wigstrom,
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snapped away photos of
Usain Bolt after he won gold
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for the 200 meter at the London Olympics,
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the last ting he expected was for Bolt
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to grab the camera out of his hands
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but that's what happened.
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Wigstrom said the athlete
then shot a few photos
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of fellow athlete Yohan
Blake and the crowd before
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scratching his name onto
it and handing it back.
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Wigstrom then listed the camera on Ebay
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where it fetched $11,600 with
the money going to charity.
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It's a cool collectable but
is it really worth that much?
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Regular Nikon DV cameras
go for around $1,000
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and this one was scratched.
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Number 8, coke cans.
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If you love spending your money on coke,
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the drink, not the substance,
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then you might know that
Coca-Cola collectors
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flock to Ebay for rare empty
cans that are being sold
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for as much as $11,000.
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Due to a factory error,
some cans had been produced
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and leave the factory
with either nothing inside
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or just a little dribble of the drink.
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For most of the world, this
doesn't rev our engines
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but for the die hard
collectors a factory error
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is almost as rare as a unicorn.
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So these cans had become highly desired
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throughout the community.
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One that weights 14 grams,
which is about 400 grams
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less than a normal can,
is even on sale online
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for around $14,000 but
what's dumber than paying
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10s of thousands of dollars
for an empty coke can?
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Probably finding one and then ruining it
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so you can't sell it would
be a whole lot more stupid.
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This happened to an unsuspecting
mother in Bristol, England
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when she bought a
multi-pack of the beverage
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and stumbled across a near empty can.
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As she filmed herself opening the tab,
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she poured out a measly three drops
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before asking what the hell was going on.
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But a quick online search
soon gave her the answer
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and she soon discovered
she destroyed a rare can
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worth around 15,000 pounds.
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Number 7, Andrew Fishers forehead.
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In a bid to help pay college tuition,
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Andrew Fisher decided the
best way to raise funds
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would be to sell the use of his forehead
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to the highest bidder.
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He says, the way I see it,
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I'm selling something I already own.
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After 30 days I get it back.
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So who exactly did he
sell this unique space to?
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After a well publicized auction on Ebay,
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he sold out to SnoreStop for $37,375
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and got their company logo temporarily
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tattooed on his head for 30 days.
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In case you were wondering
what his mother thought,
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she said she thought the
aspiring entrepreneur
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was thinking outside the box.
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So what is the pioneering
forehead advertiser
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doing these days?
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According to his own website, popmall.com,
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he's winding down and
doing some soul searching.
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He's also dipping his
toe in other ventures
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including producing a Hollywood movie.
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But he admits he's not entirely
sure it was all worth it.
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After Andrew Fishers
peculiar claim to fame,
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other people followed
suit, giving birth to
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the whole forehead advertising phenomenon.
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With one poor guy
getting a radio station's
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name tattooed on his face for a fortune,
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only to discover it was
practical joke, ouch!
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So what do you think?
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Do you think it's worth a fortune
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to tattoo your brands
name on some kids head?
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Number 6, crash debris.
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When Prince Phillips
Landrover pulled out of a
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country lane near Sandringham
Norfolk in January
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of 2019, he crashed right
into a car containing
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two young women and a 9 month old baby.
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Despite over turning his
vehicle, he remained unhurt.
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Unlike the occupants of
the other car, who suffered
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bumps, scrapes, and even a broken arm.
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Of course royal family
lovers flocked to Ebay
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when they discovered pieces of
the crash where up for sale.
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It may even have Phillips DNA on it,
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if you wanted to clone
him, said the seller.
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Whether people wanted to
create their own Prince Phillip
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or not, bidding reached
over 65,000 pounds.
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Funnily enough, the Ebay
post said the listing
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didn't even include the glass.
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It was just for three plastic parts.
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Still, there was a huge
controversy over the crash
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as Prince Phillip didn't
apologize for many days
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after the accident even
though it was his fault.
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He didn't see the oncoming car because
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of the bright sun, although many people,
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including the victims, disputed
that it was sunny that day.
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Many had argued he should
have his license revoked
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as his old age and eye-sight
may be impairing his judgment.
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Whatever you may think at
least the money from the crash
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went to charity.
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Number 5, Justin Bieber's milk glass.
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Are you enough of a believer
to buy a dirty milk glass?
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Well someone is because in
2016 after the star popped
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into a local pub in Essex,
England, during his Purpose
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tour, a member of the bar
staff, swiped the glass
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after immediately putting it on Ebay,
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with a starting bid of .99 pence.
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It reached an incredible
66,000 pounds at closing.
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The seller who served Bieber
salmon, mashed potatoes,
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and a glass of milk, insisted
it hadn't been washed
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and promised 10% of the
money would be donated
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to an Essex animal charity.
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I don't know what's weirder.
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The idea that someone was
dumb enough to pay around
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$80,000 for dirty milk
glass or that Bieber,
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an internationally famous
artist and party-animal,
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went to a bar and ordered a glass of milk.
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Number 4, royal wedding hat.
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When 22 year old princess
Beatrice attended the wedding
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of Prince William and
Kate Middleton of 2011,
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it was hard for people to
ignore her choice of head wear.
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Her hat made by Phillip Treacy
came under harsh criticism
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from viewers of the royal
wedding with some people
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liking it to a turkey twisler.
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While others went as far
as saying it resembled
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a toilet seat but some body had to like it
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because a month after the wedding,
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it found it's way onto Ebay
where it sold for a whopping
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81,100 pounds.
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That's around $106,000.
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So far the buyer has
remained anonymous while
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all of the money was
donated to two charities.
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UNICEF and Child in Crisis.
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Whether it looked like a toilet or not
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at least it raised some
money for a good cause.
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But the peculiar pretzel looking hat
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isn't the only royal wedding memorabilia
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that have made it on to Ebay.
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Just three days after Prince
Harry married Meghan Markel,
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his gift bags from the big
day started creeping on to the
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auction site with one
fetching 21,000 pounds.
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Some things included inside the canvas bag
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were a bottle of water,
a fridge magnet, a tin of
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shortbread, a spectator
badge, and a parking sticker.
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Do you think that's worth over 21,000?
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The water wasn't even Fiji water.
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Number 3, an entire life.
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That's right.
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After a messy divorce,
Ian Usher took the idea
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of a fresh start to the
extreme and decided to sell
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his entire life.
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That included his house, job,
car, jet ski, motor bike,
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and even some of his friends.
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Apparently Ian said he
couldn't cope with all of the
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reminders of his failed
marriage and therefore
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everything had to go.
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Within days of the auction
starting, Ian received
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worldwide publicity and eventually
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his whole life and everything in it
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sold for 399,300 American dollars.
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So what did Ian do once he sold his life?
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With no debt and no
roots, he simply packed up
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and went traveling around the
globe living the high life.
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Even buying his own Caribbean island.
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Not only that but he
managed to find love again
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and sold the rights of
his story to Disney.
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It seems dreams really do come true
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but would you pay hundreds
of thousands of dollars
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to buy someone else's life?
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It seems like there are maybe cheaper ways
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to run away from your problems.
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According to Reuters, the winning bidder
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remains anonymous with
the user name, mslmcc.
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Number 2, sniper's window.
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On a site where the odd and
extraordinary are often sold,
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it's no surprise that
bidders would stumble across
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the occasionally macabre object.
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One of these was the window
from which Lee Harvey Oswald
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shot president Kennedy in 1963.
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This piece of history
was apparently removed
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from the building shortly
after the assassination,
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after members of the
public kept turning up
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to steal pieces of it.
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It later fell into the
hands of a local family
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who placed it up for auction.
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Bidding begin at $100,000
but reached an impressive
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3 million and was sold
to a mysterious buyer
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who's remained anonymous
but is it actually
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the real window.
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Some conspiracy theorist
claim the window is a fake
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and that the entire
building was bought by a man
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from Tennessee decades
ago. Who removed the window
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himself and took it away with
him when he left the city.
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What do you think?
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Do you reckon some lucky
bidder bought a unique piece
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of history or were they
simply swindled out
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of sweet 3 million dollars?
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Number one, lunch.
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Okay, this isn't any ordinary lunch.
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This is the chance to have a unique
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power lunch with the original
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oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
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Every year, San Fransico
non-profit Christian organization
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holds an Ebay auction in
which they offer buyers
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the chance to have their
very own business lunch
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with one of the world richest men.
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The winner can attend the
Smith & Wollensky steakhouse
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in New York with up to seven friends
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and can only bid once they
have been approved by Ebay.
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So how much are one of these lunches?
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Well the average American
spends around $1,000 a year
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on buying lunch but the last
Warren Buffett Ebay auction
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in 2018 fetched just
over 3.3 million dollars.
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That better been some good steak.
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So what magical wisdom
does the oracle of Omaha
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share once you buy your way
in to one of these lunches?
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Two men who bid for the lunch day in 2017
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and won after bidding $650,000
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said they learned three things.
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That they should do what they love,
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be comfortable with saying no,
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and that they should have integrity.
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I can't help but think
they could have just
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learned that through buying
a $10 self-help book instead.
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So would you bid on any of these things
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or does the idea owning
Just Bieber's milk glass
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not do it for ya?
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Let me know in the comments down below
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and thanks for watching.
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