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Shopping on eBay is supposed to be about finding bargains, and this summer a guy from Oklahoma ended up finding quite the deal. He was the winning bidder of a bottle of Allsopp's Arctic Ale in which the seller made a typo in his auction and spelled it "Allsops." The auction ended with very little interest and only 2 bids for the bottle that was obviously worth so much more than the winning bid of $304. And to make the mistake even more painful, that winning bidder turned around and listed the bottle again on eBay, but this time with the name spelled correctly, and got a whopping 157 bidders and a sale price of $503,300.That's gotta hurt.
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
Wayne Sep 21st 2007 8:19PM
Oh Give me a damn break!!! This is just bogus BS! No idiot in his right mind would pay $503,300 for a bottle of frigging ale. Much less a made up brand! Add to this the word 'Fables' and then you have the complete story..Allsops Fables!
Plus take off the supposedly wax seal and what do you have? A twist off cap. I mean ,listen people..look at the frigging label..sorta clean and pristene isn't it? I mean, to have this laying around since the 1800's one would think it might get dirty or unreadable or brittle. But no..looks brand new to me! Then the seam on the bottle itself..look at the picture!!
I will stop here because to go on is providing nothing to those idiots who believe anything because it is listed. Ebay people are especially stupid people at best.
But this is what no one seems to get....IF and I say IF lightly....this first guy sold this bottle of beer..how in the hell does anyone suppose he lost $500,000 or more on the sale? He gained or he would not have sold it. So what if a bidder got it and resold it for more? Who cares? No where is it mentioned what the first guy paid for it. I suppose he is the perpetrator of this hoax.
Everyone is stupid except me!
Samantha Oct 2nd 2007 10:49PM
I didn't make $500,000. But I did get an unreal deal on a Gucci jacket through a typo. I shop for them all the time. I'll admit it's rare you find a deal but every-once in a while something comes through. I use http://auctionbloopers.com to help find the typos.