eBay Find of the Day: Biggest auto news story of the year for only $150k
Fame and fortune has a purchase price: $150,000, on eBay. How can you get it? There's an automobile design flaw that's killing massive numbers of people. When it is revealed, "billions of dollars worth of personal injury and wrongful death litigation" will commence. Want to know what it is? Then head over to eBay and pay someone called "topshopper" $150,000 for the rights to the story.
This has got to be the most interesting auto-related auction we've seen all year -- which is saying something, with all that's flopped over the transom of eBay over the last twelve months. There's a even solution for this mystery mass-death-causing flaw, for which a (supposed) patent is pending. No word on whether topshopper holds the key to that as well. And topshopper, you'll be glad to know, has a 100% feedback rating for his or her two transactions over the last seven years.
We have no idea what it could be, but if you do buy the rights, please let us know first. We promise to give you credit. And when you're finished spreading the word on that story, we here at Autoblog have a map that can tell you where monsters and leprechauns live. We have a picture of a unicorn to prove it. Make your checks payable to Autoblog...
Thanks for the tip, John![Source: eBay]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Johnnie 3:16PM (1/01/2008)
LOL
$8 for shipping.
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Giuseppe 3:29PM (1/01/2008)
I don't see how i can make any money out of this, oh wait! Maybe thats what he realized as well
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Phil Perman 3:36PM (1/01/2008)
"This has got to be the most interesting auto-related auction we've seen all year"
Well at the time the article was written the year was only 15 hours and 3 minutes old so, you know...
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cowboy bob 7:49AM (1/02/2008)
Hahaha. Good point Phil.
Jim 3:47PM (1/01/2008)
"Fame and fortune has a purchase price: $150,000, on eBay. How can you get it? There's an automobile design flaw that's killing massive numbers of people."
I'm going to guess that this flaw happens to be between the steering wheel and seat...
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EquinsuOcha 4:10PM (1/01/2008)
E85 IS MADE OF PEOPLE! PEEEEEEOPPPLLLEEEEEE!
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JayP 4:16PM (1/01/2008)
Where's the boat that ran on Bio diesel made from lipo fat?
Doug 4:27PM (1/01/2008)
It must be a big story because in the picture it's being typed on a Powerbook from the mid 1990s.
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tanjim 5:38PM (1/01/2008)
haha the listing was removed, i wondr why ;)
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stang fan 5:40PM (1/01/2008)
The fatal flaw? Car and truck exhaust fumes are killing plant and animal (this includes human) life on this planet. There, you can have it for free.
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wer 6:20PM (1/01/2008)
Listing is gone now...
..because I won it!
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L3 6:18PM (1/01/2008)
Oooo. I'm afraid the underappreciated overstatement of the article is that 'Of course, 'We (AutoBlog) promise to give you credit.'
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500 7:19PM (1/01/2008)
"There's an automobile design flaw that's killing massive numbers of people."
Yeah it's called government fuel economy regulation.
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why not the LS2/LS7? 7:57PM (1/01/2008)
Another George Will heard from.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rIKu1UDoa6s
Nick 8:03PM (1/01/2008)
So the listing was removed by eBay, which is too bad 'cause i was totally ready to blow my inheritance on a scam. dang...
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Guenther 8:48PM (1/01/2008)
Cars don't kill people- the government does.
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Karl 8:55PM (1/01/2008)
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside.
Now, should we initiate a recall?
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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Chris 9:01PM (1/01/2008)
Fight Club.....nice reference!
naggs 11:26PM (1/01/2008)
but which car company do you work for?
Master P 1:49AM (1/02/2008)
A major one.