Want to get Doom 3 a couple days early for 2 million bucks?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-08-01 01:00pm

Anyone paying that amount is really dumb!

And it's up to 10mil now...

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-08-01 01:10pm

Faram wrote:And it's up to 10mil now...

Holy shit!

Wait... it usually takes a few days for it to ship on eBay, and the game comes out on Thursday...

What a retard. I wish I had gotten an early copy of Doom 3 and done that.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-08-01 01:25pm

The original price was $80. Someone ruined the entire bid by jacking it up to high and then everyone else just kept on with the joke.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-08-01 01:26pm

More then 20 million now... I suspect that the offer is a joke. I mean who the hell would pay 20 million to get some damn game a few days ahead of schedule?

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2004-08-01 01:27pm

2 minutes to go now, and it's up to twenty million!

EDIT: And it's just ended! Final price: $20,000,100

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-08-01 01:29pm

Sir Sirius wrote:More then 20 million now... I suspect that the offer is a joke. I mean who the hell would pay 20 million to get some damn game a few days ahead of schedule?

I'd suspect there are people that stupid out there.

Final price: $20,000,100.00

This guy is onto something.

Now I'm re-doubling my efforts to get Half Life 2 a few days early.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2004-08-01 01:39pm

Sir Sirius wrote:More then 20 million now... I suspect that the offer is a joke. I mean who the hell would pay 20 million to get some damn game a few days ahead of schedule?

Whats irritating is the person who put the item up for bid now has to restart the bid or have E-bay throw out the joke bids.

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2004-08-01 02:05pm

Well, the winning bidder could always pay in installments of only $833345 per month!

Seriously though, did Doom 3 even cost $20m to make?

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-08-01 03:32pm

LoL!!! As long as it took them, probably. LoL!!! However, whoever was holding this auction could at least get the fake bidders to have thier accounts yanked off of ebay. Not only that, if the winning bidder doesn't pay the $20mil joke or not, he could hold his ass to it, since your bid is a contract as stated while making your bid.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2004-08-01 03:43pm

now that the this bid got screwed up the whole point of the guy holding the bid to sell the game before it comes out in stores is pretty much ruined.

DaveJB · Post by **DaveJB** » 2004-08-01 03:44pm

Reminds me of that letter Microsoft sent to Mike Rowe - he got bids of several million for the letter, but ended up with "only" around $10,000.

I think it's some kind of EBayer's variant of Russian Roulette - you pump up the bid to completely insane amounts, while trying not to be the final bidder.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-08-01 06:50pm

Lots of people have their hands on retail copies of the game as we speak. Some places got it very early. Why pay a ridiculous amount when you can pick it up for 60 bucks NOW at certain locations?

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-08-01 09:43pm

This is why I don't trust eBay.

It'd really be interesting if that joke bid was taken seriously by the law...
Would feel sorry for the guy.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2004-08-01 11:08pm

if you look at the bid page and scroll down, you see that all of the fake bids were tossed out.