"Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends."
Yeah, it's not like Guitar Heroes smoke pot or anything.
Posted on 12/16/2007 5:28:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MONTREAL (AFP) — After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.
The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.
"So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son," the father wrote on the eBay website.
"Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends."
The man, a school teacher, who kept his identity private, said he sold the coveted video game to punish his son and discourage him from smoking dope.
The sale was a boon for the family's bank account, since the game the father purchased for 90 dollars (US) was finally sold to an Australian who plunked down 9,100 dollars for it.
The naughty son, however, will not go without a present on Christmas.
"I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing with the Stars ... I know he will just love them," the father said, tongue-in-cheek.
Way to go Dad!
Good luck collecting it!
ooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Barbie.......
Woo Hoo!
Man think of how much . . . never mind.
What do you want to bet the idiot who paid $9,100.00 for a video game is a drug dealer? ;-)
Considering what goes on in Canada, the boy will sue to rid himself of his dad and the “Human Rights Commission” will side with him.
Give him a lump of coal and a roach clip to hold it.
this game is still available for much less than that.
Whoever paid that amount is not very smart.
So, if I am lucky my son will start smoking pot.
Or a game counterfeiter.
Walked in Costco on friday about noon time and there were 4 GH3s just sitting on a display rack. No problem. $79.95 and my kid will be thrilled. Didn’t even intend on getting it. Ebays looking pretty good.
Yeah, it's not like Guitar Heroes smoke pot or anything.
He will shoot his dad dead, then use the insanity defense successfully. Poor kid, wasn’t really his fault...
we just purchased GHII with the controller on ebay for about $80.
I understand the Wii and x360 are more money, but $9,000?
That’s is so ridiculous?
I guess you and I are geniuses?
Already paid for! Per ebay!
You can buy an awfully nice real guitar with all the amps and effects you would ever need for $9,000. This electronic air guitar fad is getting on my nerves. ;)
Just wait til he finds out
that it was his son
who put in the winning bid.
I gave my young daughter coal in her stocking.
She was delighted...
I guarantee what happened is the buyer forgot to put in the decimal point and meant to bid 91.00 dollars. I made this mistake on an auction once and accidentally bid 700 dollars for a jigsaw puzzle instead of 7.00. Ebay refused to let me withdraw the bid when I realized the mistake.
Used? GHII is last years model. All the same I guess.
You know, I disagree with, but understand, the argument for legalization of pot. There are a lot of good reasons to advance for legalization.
I am utterly perplexed at folks who think teens getting loaded on pot is a good thing. Or who make fun of a father's concern about his son getting loaded. There are no good arguments in favor of such position or attitude.
OTOH, pot does make you stupid. That may be the best single explanation.
That $9,000 will buy a lot of pot!
Whoa. Bummer, dude. That’s like, really harsh.
What happens in a case like that?
She’s an artist? :)
That can’t be it, because your bid will only go high enough to beat everyone else.
Somebody else had to be bidding against the winner to get the total that high.
LOL
If only I could turn back the clock...
They have a policy that if you contact them within 24 hours of your bid, and it is not near the end of the auction that you can withdraw the bid. In my case I didn’t catch it until the night before the auction ended and they said “tough”. I sweated it out, but the winning bid was about 20 dollars, so I “won”, but I would have been on the hook for the full amount had someone wanted to bid it up to my max bid.
On Ebay's reserve-bidding system, someone else would have had to bid nearly that price too. When you place a bid it's for the maximum you're willing to pay, but your actual bid only goes that high if it needs to in order to beat someone else's bid.
Yeah, I saw a bunch of the games at Walmart today. HOWEVER - the guitar you need to actually play the game can’t be found ‘round here for love or money.
You've reached 1,000,000 points!
YOU
ARE
FAGS!
I find this very hard to believe. I noticed someone suggested a bad bid, but the highest price I could find on E-bay for anything with GH3 in it was $1600, and that was for TWO Wii consoles with lots of stuff including two GH3’s.
And while I understand bids are “final”, I’m thinking I’d let a court decide if I had to pay that much money for a game that is currently selling “Buy it Now” for $129.00.
This sounds like one of the stories you put out so your kids behave before christmas.
Hmmm.... maybe someone DID want the game badly enough to pay 9 grand for it then. Usually even the hot toy of the Christmas season goes for big bucks, but not a hundred times the list price. For 9K the buyer could have bought an 80 inch plasma TV, and an entire library of Wii games to last him for years.
It came with the guitar.
Got a couple of extra tons? I have lots of large stockings...they belonged to my ex.
(I kept them because they make great potato & onion sacks, etc. They also brought in some extra cash, when I rented them to the crew of Shallow Hal as props, because they couldn't find any large enough in stores.)
This pine we're burning cruds up the chimney too fast, and coal would be a welcome change.
You’re right, I just checked ebay and you can buy it now a brand new GH3 for 144.00 bucks. The bidder either made a serious mistake or is very stupid. He could have it flown first class to Australia for 9K.
But you would only pay the bid increment above the second highest bidder right? So in this case some other over enthusiastic video gamer bid around 9000 as well?
Bong.
Aw man. Wish I’d known I could get $9000 for the one my son’s GF bought for my younger son!!!!
I guess I don't know why this person agreed to pay the 9K, even if it was a legitimate bid, if he could literally "buy it now" for 144 bucks. I know that sometimes ebay will negate an auction by putting up a sham bid of 100,000 dollars if there is some question as to the legitimacy of a bid. I will surmise that this is what might have happened here when the guy realized he was on the hook and contacted ebay to tell them no way he would pay that.
Wow, is he trying to make him a pot smoking homosexual?
No. She was 8 or so at the time. Lumps of coal meant that we were going to the snow to make snowmen.
That was way exciting!
OK - I know it’s NEVER happened before......but could the MSM be mistaken ?
Nope the darned ex threw it out years ago.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get coal in Silicon Valley????
Sorry, but I don’t buy your explanation.
I’ve been bidding and selling on Ebay for nearly 5 years and there is no way that Ebay would put up a ‘sham’ bid.
This person, if they won the bid for $9100 wouldn’t have been the only bidder and would have had to ‘outbid’ others to reach that amount.
You put in your ‘maximum’ bid that you want to pay, or you bid ‘incrimentally’ until you either win or lose.
I don’t know where you got the information on the ‘sham’ bidding by Ebay, but whoever told you is full of it.
The ONLY bidding done on Ebay are by potential buyers.
Ebays only involvement comes when there is a conflict, but even then it is usually decided between the buyer and seller of the item. IF the seller decides that the bid amount is outrageously high, then they have the option of cancelling the bid and contacting the next highest bidder for a ‘second chance’ offer.
There is no way that the amount of $9100 was a ‘mistake’ unless the ‘starting amount’ was nearly that high to begin with.
This story sounds more like an ‘urban legend’ than something that actually took place.
Well, considering I’ve never used it or any other controlled substance, I wouldn’t know first hand whether it does make you “dumber” or not. I typically don’t believe the claptrap the anti-drug movement publishes, as they have a vested interest in keeping the stuff illegal. I do, however, regularly make fun of people who participate in knee-jerk reactions about their children. I am the guardian of a 19-year-old girl, and I can safely say that I don’t make such reactions about her safety, nor have I, in the 4 1/2 years of watching over her. I just laugh at people who do - they’re in the same category to me as people who believe chain emails.
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