This is absolutely the most sickening

[yasmina27]

and disgusting item (specifically the price) on ebay I've ever seen.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-PlayStation-3-NBA-Live-Madden-07-3yr-Extras_W0QQitemZ260057407300QQihZ016QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Sony PlayStation 3 - NBA Live & Madden 07 +3yr & Extras
Sports Lovers Dream w/ Special Delivery Options WOW!! Item number: 260057407300


price: US $2,000,000.00


This is NO JOKE! This person claims to be a school teacher married to another teacher who won't be able to afford to send their kids to college without this. As a teacher - also married to another teacher, I am embarrassed at this extortion. We have already educated my husbands 2 sons and have 2 young daughters who will in 8 years + also need educated.

Would anyone with that kind of money even be shopping ebay, or am I just naive?

[Marr]

1. Gotta be a joke. Two million dollars?

You could buy Madden himself for HALF that.

[Dorian Gray]

16. They're just trying to get "PR!"

People can still bid, and they'll sell the product to he or she who bids highest.

[evilgenius602]

17. you'd need the other million just to keep him fed

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Seems to me that anyone with that kind of money

would either already have the private cellphone of a Sony connection, or be able to figure it out. :shrug:

If someone is seriously considering paying that amount of money, particularly to an eBay seller...well, that's obscene in my book.

[Renew Deal]

3. It's pretty funny

I'd take the two million if I could get a PS3 and the idea.

[yasmina27]

4. I just looked at other listings

There are several for $1,000,000.00, and others for hundred's of thousands.:wow:

Un-frickin-believable

[davepc]

7. all the real ps3 auctions are going for a about 700-1000 dollars

by real, I mean auctions where the two parties participating in the transaction will actually deliver the goods/money.

anything much past 1200 dollars is a gimmick that nobody has any intention of selling/buying.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. I'm appalled.

That's practically blackmail.

[davepc]

6. a gimmick auction is the most sick thing you've seen?

[yasmina27]

9. on ebay - yeah

and I don't think it's a gimmick. It's not an auction - it's a Buy It Now.

[davepc]

11. so what? nobody is going to buy it.

its a gimmick.

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. Aw, c'mon. Make an offer. $1.5 mil won't bust your budget.

and you'll feel like you stole it.

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. I doubt it is a legitimate bid

It happens sometimes: a joker will place an impossible bid on something. Eh. :eyes:

[Journeyman]

10. What extortion? . . .

Someone's selling a product with high demand for an exorbitant price. There's no extortion; the seller isn't forcing anyone to buy it. Who the seller is and why they need the money is irrelevant. If some idiot wants to pay such bucks for a toy (and frankly, I find the MSRP too high), then who am I to say the seller is anything other than one lucky bastard.

[Minnesota_Lib]

12. Extortion, no. Wishful thinking and a major detachment from reality, yes.

[chelsea0011]

13. But the shipping is FREE!. You can't get a better deal.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. If someone is actually willing to pay that much (which I doubt)

what business is it of anyone else's?

[Lex]

15. Keep looking. There's lots of crazy crap on ebay

including pieces of cardboard people will sell you for $25 and junk like that.

[evilgenius602]

18. does that include shipping?

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Yes, and you get to keep the UPS jet, too.

[Bitwit1234]

19. You are correct

Anybody stupid enough to pay anything over the asking price of 600 dollars is crazy, ignorant and dumb besides.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy the tykes a basketball and baseball?

One never knows, they might even like playing for-real games.

[On the Road]

23. When Playstation 3s Were Going for Over $2000

I investigated getting some shipped from China. But by the time I had the information, the prices had dropped to $1300-1500, and Japanese versions (which were the ones available) were selling for $800-900, which made it unprofitable. The market responsed incredibly fast.

This is a shot in the dark. The sellers are just trying to up the best offer.

[valerief]

24. Why sickening? It's only a stupid toy. They could ask for 20 million.

Who cares?

A toy. Just a toy.

[LSK]

25. and here I was expecting another video from Iraq