Chinaman buys car for $14

The Inquirer ^ | 8-1-2002 | Inquirer Staff

[JameRetief]

Chinaman buys car for $14

Seller up in arms, court

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INQUIRER staff: Thursday 01 August 2002, 09:16

HAN BIN bid just $14 for a used Volkswagen Passat worth an estimated $12,000 on Chinese auction web site eachnet.com.

When the bidding closed, no-one had offered more for the motor that Han, so his bid was accepted, according to Reuters.

Funnily enough, the seller, Yongda Automobile Sales Co, baulked at letting the car go so cheaply and refused to had it over, so Han has taken the company to court.

"We've tried to talk to Han, but he's been very stubborn. Most people in his situation would be stubborn," Zhu Baocheng, a Yongda marketing executive, told the news wire.

The case continues.

EachNet is part-owned by US auction site eBay.

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eachnet.com (Chinese).

[Shermy]

"Stubborn" = against my interests.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Stubborn = "He's like a man who knows he's right, and keeps on coming..."

[LibWhacker]

Hey, maybe Torricelli's television set was bought at this auction site for two bucks! </sarcasm>

[JameRetief]

I believe the headline is "Chinese web auction bidder . . ." and not "Chinaman." Not to be picky or anything, but that's pretty racist -- regardless of one's political orientation (so to speak).

I post the exact title as is. I did not change the title. When I posted the article, "Chinaman" was the word used in the title. Apparently someone at the Inquirer was told of the racist tones and changed it.

But thank you for jumping to conclusions.