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No doubt many of our viewers during the year from hell made a lot of purchases online,
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but we very much doubt many of you went much further than spending a few bucks on some
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cheesy nachos or acquiring a new pair of sneakers.
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Can you imagine hitting that “buy” button when the thing you are purchasing costs millions
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or hundreds of thousands of dollars?
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As you are about to find out, some ultra-wealthy people have bought the craziest things online,
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acts that frankly make us at the infographics Show feel very, very poor.
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A $325,200 helicopter You're going to see a couple of cars on
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this list as well as some planes, but this is the only helicopter you will hear about.
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In 2018, someone sold a Robinson R-44 Raven II Helicopter for $325,200 on eBay.
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You'd think eBay would be a strange place to go when you are in the market for a helicopter,
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but as you'll see, a lot of strange things have gone down on that platform over the years.
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A $375,190 piano This was not just any piano, but one that
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used to belong to arguably the world's most iconic pop star, Elvis Presley.
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The King of Rock & Roll's Knabe White Baby Grand Piano was expected to go for over a
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million but in the end, it sold for just over $375,000.
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A $399,000 life Disturbingly, one of the cheapest items on
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this list is someone's life.
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It could actually be the best thing on the list, but we'll let you decide after you've
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finished the show.
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The year was 2008 and an Englishman living in Australia named Ian Usher was having a
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bad time of it.
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He'd just been divorced and was feeling pretty down.
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That's why he put his whole life on eBay.
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Up for grabs was his house, his car, his motorcycle, and just about all of his other worldly possessions.
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On eBay, he wrote, “I have had enough of my life!
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I don't want it anymore.”
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Someone bought it for over almost $400,000.
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It worked out for him, too.
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With the cash, he traveled all over the world and ticked off quite a few things on his bucket
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list.
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He even appeared in a Hollywood movie.
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He eventually ended up buying a small island off the coast of Panama where he now lives
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with his new lover.
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He's written two books so far and Disney has bought the movie rights for one of those
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books.
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Maybe you should try putting your life on eBay.
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A $400,000 ticket This isn't the most expensive sports memorabilia
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on this list by a long way, but it's the most expensive card in the game of football,
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that's American football to you Europeans out there.
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It was the Tom Brady 2000 Playoff Contenders Championship Ticket Trading Card.
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The card was signed by Brady, who some people say was the best quarterback of all time.
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That's one of the reasons the card was sold for so much.
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If only you could get your hands on OJ Simpson's gloves.
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We imagine they would go for big money.
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We won't mention all expensive sports memorabilia on this list but will tell you that a Michael
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Jordan 1997 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Card went for $350,100 in 2019.
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That's a lot, but people have paid a lot more for pieces of cardboard.
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A $503,300 bottle of beer This story is quite unbelievable.
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A man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, bought a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale in 2007 for just over
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$300.
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This guy was quite smart, knowing that the original seller had put it on eBay with a
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spelling mistake.
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He'd posted “Allsop's” with one “p” not two “p's”
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The item came with a note from a Boston attorney who wrote that the bottle of beer had been
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specially made for an 1852 polar expedition.
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The new owner then did some research and discovered that the beer had been made for Sir Edward
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Belcher, a man who went in search of a crew that hadn't returned home from its own Arctic
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expedition.
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This bottle had a history.
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He then put the bottle back on eBay with the title, “Museum Quality Allsopp's Arctic
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Ale 1852 Sealed/Full - Rarest Historic Beer in the World.”
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He explained some of its history, too, and that's why someone paid so much for it.
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A $535,499 watch Luxury watches often go for big money on eBay,
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but from what we can see, the most expensive watch ever sold on the platform went for $535,499.
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That was a Patek Philippe Grand Complications Watch.
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A $577,610 baseball bat The bat in question was once owned by the
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player nicknamed Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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He got that name for once playing without shoes due to the fact he had blisters on his
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feet.
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He was one of the best players of all time, but his name is tainted somewhat from accusations
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that he accepted a bribe to throw the World Series in 1919.
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In 2001, his nephew put his Black Betsy bat on eBay, after which it was bought by the
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owner of a marketing company.
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It now sits proudly in that man's office.
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A $936,000 comic book In 2017, All Star Comics #8 sold for almost
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one million dollars.
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As you'll see, this isn't even the most expensive comic book ever sold online, but
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it's the most expensive which has a woman starring in it, which superheroine graced
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this expensive comic book?
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Why none other than Wonder Woman.
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The comic was introduced in 1941 and it was the first time Wonder Woman made an appearance
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A $1 million car From 2002 to 2004 Ferrari only made 399 Ferrari
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Enzos.
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In 2004, someone posted one for sale on eBay and car enthusiasts all over the world started
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bidding.
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The car was sold to a guy in Switzerland, and he only bid $50 more than the next guy.
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It was actually a very wise purchase.
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We went window shopping online just now and saw that they are now going for two to four
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million dollars.
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As you'll soon find out, this was not close to the most expensive car ever sold on eBay.
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Just for you car geeks out there, we realize some other cars have been sold online for
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similar prices, but we don't want to make a list full of cars.
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That would send people to sleep.
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A $1.1 million bottle of booze History was made early in 2020 when a bottle
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of whisky went for the most cash ever at an online auction.
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Whiskies have sold for much more at brick and mortar auction houses, but when a European
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bought this bottle of “1926 Macallan Valerio Adami 60 year old” with the click of a button,
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he broke the Internet record.
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A $1.1 million painting Ok, so artwork sells for ridiculous prices
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all the time, but not many people are willing to put their hand in their virtual wallet
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when they can't even see what they are buying up close.
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During lockdowns this year, the auction house Sotheby's said it had broken its record for
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the most expensive piece of art it had ever sold online.
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The painting was the work of an American artist named George Condo and the name of the painting
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is “Antipodal Reunion”.
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Other paintings in the same auction sold for a lot, but not anywhere near as much as this
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painting.
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A $1.2 million baseball card A few decades ago, when people smoked in the
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office, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, and basically anywhere other than church and in
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the operating theater, things called baseball cards could be found in packets of cigarettes.
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What the smokers back then didn't know is that some of those cards in years to come
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would be sold for crazy amounts of money.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, one of the best players was a Pittsburgh Pirates'
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player named Honus Wagner.
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In 2000, someone paid a whopping $1.27 million for a card displaying the face of Mr. Wagner
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after the card appeared on eBay.
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“It is the Holy Grail of baseball cards.
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It is the Mona Lisa.
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There's nothing else like it,” said the auctioneer who sold the card.
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The American Tobacco Company only ever made 50 to 200 of these cards.
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Most of them probably ended up in the trash, but those that survived have sold for hundreds
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of thousands and millions.
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The costliest card sold for $3.12 million in 2016, but that wasn't an online sale.
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A $2.06 million town Maybe you fancy yourself as the type of person
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that would like to buy a town, just like the fallen fictional family that bought Schitt's
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Creek.
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In 2007, a town called Albert in Texas was posted on eBay by its owner, Bobby Cave.
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A few years earlier, he'd bought the town for $216,000.
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When he bought it, the place was pretty much a ghost town.
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Cave invested close to $500,000 in the town and he managed to turn things around a little,
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and so when he put it on eBay in 2007 he asked for $2.5 million.
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He got some offers, but they fell through.
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Then a mysterious Italian said he'd pay the price.
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That happened, and Albert switched hands.
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It was up for sale again in 2009 for $883,000.
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Right now, Albert has a population of 7.
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A town in California called Bridgeville has changed hands many times and seems to have
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cursed at least one of its owners.
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That town once sold on eBay for $1.77 million, but the deal didn't go through in the end.
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A $2.1 million house for the end of times Back in the day during the Cold War, quite
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a few people were worried that nuclear bombs would fall on them.
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That's why some folks started building houses replete with underground bunkers.
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One of those houses was built on a former missile silo based in New York State's Adirondack
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Mountains.
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That was back in the 60s, but then in the 90s someone paid $55,000 for the plot and
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built a luxury house above the bunker.
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That bunker, which had in part once served as a launch center, was fitted out with bedrooms,
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a bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen.
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To preserve the look of the place, the 3-foot thick walls were all kept, as were the escape
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hatch and huge security doors.
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The property was posted on eBay in 2002.
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This is how it was described, “The complex, accessible via its own private paved airstrip,
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offers the optimum level of security and privacy available today.”
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The person that bought it wanted to remain anonymous, but reports state they purchased
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it in the interest of safety.
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A $3.2 million comic If you bought a copy of Action Comics #1 in
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1938 it would have set you back 10 cents.
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In 2014, a man in the U.S. named Darren Adams put his pristine copy on eBay for sale and
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he started the bidding at 99 cents.
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Within hours people had bid over a million.
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It finally sold for $3,207,852.
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It's thought that there are under 200 of these comics still floating around in the
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universe.
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Adams is actually the same seller who sold the Wonder Woman comic you already heard about.
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He once told the media that the comics had originally been collected by a mom and pop
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store owner who'd decided to keep them all in perfect condition after he'd bought them
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during World War Two.
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Ok, now we're at the top five.
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Things are about to get crazy.
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A $3.26 million car The most expensive car ever sold on eBay was
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a 1959 Ferrari California Spyder 250 GT CS.
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When it was sold in 2010, it came as a bit of a shock to some people as it went for far
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more than any other cars have ever been sold on the platform.
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A $4.6 million lunch Has anyone ever asked you the question, “If
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you could have lunch with anyone alive or dead who would it be?”
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We are guessing not many of you would choose the American business tycoon Warren Buffet,
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a man who's very much alive at 90-years-old.
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It seems for one person, old man Buffet might have been one of his choices.
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That's because in 2019 he paid a whopping $4,567,888 to have dinner with Buffet.
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That's quite a lot of cash for food and company, so let's hope it was an excellent
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buffet...
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Excuse the gag.
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The man who paid the cash was a 28-year-old who'd made his money in cryptocurrency.
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Within 48 hours of the offer being on eBay, people had bid millions for the lunch to be
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served at New York City's Smith & Wollensky restaurant.
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The steakhouse has a good reputation, and in view of what the guy paid for the sit down
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with Buffet, $50 for a 14 ounce Filet Mignon isn't that expensive.
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Buffet later told the press that the winners of this prize always feel “like they've
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gotten their money's worth.”
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Maybe it pays to share a bottle of wine with the 6th richest person in the world.
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We should add that someone paid $2.6 million in 2010 to eat with Buffet, and millions have
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been spent in other years.
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A $4.9 million plane In 2001, a charter flight company based in
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Africa made a splash in the media when it bought a rather dated Gulfstream II on eBay.
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Some media said it was the largest purchase ever made online at the time, but as you'll
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soon see, that wasn't true.
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The plane was listed on eBay by a Texas-based firm called Tyler Jet, but we can't tell
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you much about the company that bought it.
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If you go to eBay today, there are quite a few planes for sale, but most of them look
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like they've seen better days and are nowhere near as costly as the Gulfstream II was.
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A $40 million dollar plane U.S. billionaire Mark Cuban appeared in the
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Guinness Book of World Records in 1999 after making what was at the time the biggest online
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purchase ever.
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That was yet another Gulfstream plane.
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Cuban said that buying a plane was his all-time goal, for the reason that he values time over
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anything else.
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This guy grew up in a working-class family, but he had a good head for business.
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At age 12 he was making cash selling garbage bags and after that, he went into selling
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coins and stamps.
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A few years later, he was making money moving newspapers around.
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Fast-forward a few years and this guy had made a ton of money in the technology business,
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and that's around the time he bought the jet.
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He later got into the movie business as well as appearing on reality TV.
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His other great love is sports, and he's spent quite a bit of cash on sports teams.