Guitar Hero III sells for $9,100.01!
p2pnet news | Games:- Well, it happened.
Catflap posted:
“I guess i was wrong. There’s a sucker born every minute.
“Some a**hole ['ss' deleted to protect the innocent] actually paid $9100.01 for the crap game. the auction ended 10dec with 42 bids.”
Crap gane? Like with dice?
Nope. Like with Guitar Hero III.
“This should teach my son a lesson!” – said the father in the eBay auction under which the game went for close to ten K.
He’d caught his son, Isaac, smoking pot and decided to punish him by auctioning off the game he’d planned on giving him for Christmas.”
Said the dad:
My son (Isaac) hasn’t exactly been Mother Teresa this year (he got suspended for fighting in the spring, among other things) but I thought I could still justify getting him this present. Maybe it would make him stay home more and ‘rock out’ on this fake guitar thing. He pretty much spends all his free time at his friend’s house playing it anyways (while high on marijuana, I would imagine).
Doesn’t it bother anyone that he went ballistic over his son’s marijuana use, yet he didn’t seem to have any problem with him getting suspended for fighting? – asks a p2pnet reader?
Meanwhile, “A few people think the auction is fake,” says the eBay post today, going on:
“I guess this does not surprise me, as it almost seems unreal to me at this point. All I can do is assure you that yes, the auction is real, and if you don’t want to bid on it or have anything to do with it, I am fine with that. Please don’t slander me as an alternative.
“Concerning the age of some people who are sending me questions through ebay…
“I am getting lots of questions from people claiming to be high school students, or of the same age as Isaac etc. who wish to express their thoughtful (and valuable) opinions on the situation. To the best of my knowledge, you have to be 18 to have an ebay account. Please keep this in mind. There are several other forums of discussion on the internet which should not be difficult to find, and many of them are significantly more robust and interactive than this somewhat unidirectional approach of me posting your comments on the auction.”
So maybe Isaac decided to bid the game up to mess with his dad and wreak a little revenge?
But, “Concerning my son bidding on the item and not paying,” says the dad, “We have discussed this and I am sure he is not,” says the dad.
He adds:
He hadn’t even thought of the idea until I brought it up, as it was put forth in a comment on the auction. Furthermore, as mentioned above, he is too young to have an ebay account. Most importantly, I am confident he will not meddle with the auction because he is simply too interested in seeing the outcome of the auction to meddle with it. Remember, I gave him the choice to end the auction yesterday. And I warned him: if you do set up and ebay account just to be the high bidder on this item, I will report you as a non-paying bidder and give you negative feedback! I’ve done it before buddy, and I will do it again!
Nasty 
At least it wasn’t Tetris
Today, another Guitar Hero III went for a paltry $139.90.
Also See:
eBay auction – Wanna buy Guitar Hero III – for $9,100?, December 14, 2007
wasn’t Tetris – Crack cocaine and the perils of Tetris, December 17, 2007
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December 17th, 2007 at 11:13 am
““Some a**hole [’ss’ deleted to protect the innocent]”
I really can’t tell what you’re trying to say when you censor out those two letters.