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EBay Typo Costs Man $500,000

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.

Via BornRich

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Airbus A380 Luxury Plane Tickets Sell for $100,000

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

You've been reading about it, you've been hearing about it, and now it's finally happened: those two tickets up for auction for a luxury suite (plus all kinds of other goodies) on the maiden voyage of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 have finally sold -- for $100,000. That sounds like a lot of money to pay for a flight from Singapore to Sydney, but of course it's on an Airbus, it includes a lot of other perks, and that's actually a lot less than what the airline was hoping to get for charity (the "Buy it now" was $380,000). What a bargain!

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Hitler's Champagne Hits The Auction Block

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine, Auctions

Care for a little 70 year old champagne from Adolf Hitler's own stash that may or may not be poisoned? Sign me up!

Not really, I'm kidding.

But in all seriousness going up for auction this month on the 17th is a bottle of 1937 Moet et Chandon that was apparently taken by a soldier from the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1945 after the Nazis were defeated. And the poisoned part? There was a rumor going around that some of the champagne bottles had been poisoned via injections through the cork.

I might not be interested, but I can still understand why other people would be -- it is a piece of history. Just make sure you store it so there's no chance you're going to pop it open and drink it accidentally this New Years!

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Evel Knievel's Aston Martin Lagonda on eBay

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

When a car has been previously owned by a celebrity, it adds character to the vehicle, not to mention that "used by a celebrity" sounds better than simply "used." Autoblog dug around and found Evel Knievel's 1984 Aston Martin Lagonda on eBay. Not only does it have celebrity cache, but it is one cool car. Over 17-feet long, the car was heavily customized by Galatin Aston and features an automatic 502 big-block Chevrolet V8 engine, R-700 transmission, cream leather upholstery and a mirrored finish on the underside of the hood. The starting bid price is $149,999.

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