Dumb people spending money on imaginary things

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-03-30 08:16pm

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101, ... page_prev2

. Uh huh... spend money on a non-tangible item that has no value whatsoever.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-03-30 08:29pm

No one ever went broke profiting of the stupidity of idiots. Fucking brilliant!

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-31 04:45am

aerius wrote:No one ever went broke profiting of the stupidity of idiots. Fucking brilliant!

There is some saying in my country, one created by jew merchants:

"There's no sin in tricking a blind man with eyes"

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-03-31 07:57am

Comosicus wrote:There is some saying in my country, one created by jew merchants:

"There's no sin in tricking a blind man with eyes"

Which country are you from?

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-31 01:44pm

Gandalf wrote:
Comosicus wrote:There is some saying in my country, one created by jew merchants:

"There's no sin in tricking a blind man with eyes"
Which country are you from?

Romania - and I must admit that saying sound a bit odd in English. It has more sense in Romanian.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-31 03:33pm

Comosicus wrote:Romania - and I must admit that saying sound a bit odd in English. It has more sense in Romanian.

It makes sense, don't worry. It's kinda cool too. I gotta remember that.

"It's not a sin to trick a blind man with eyes." Heh.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-03-31 03:47pm

Well, as they say, a fool and his money are soon departed, and this is no exception, although it's especially hilarious.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-31 03:55pm

with all the people that make huge bids for items of questionable believability on ebay, this does not surprise me.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2004-03-31 05:13pm

I should finally sell my collection of invisible bees...
Wait, where did I put them?

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-03-31 09:16pm

"It gives me the same pleasure like at Christmas," says Georgiades. "When the money ran out, I went and got more. A hundred dollars at a time, (and) over time it added up."

What a fucktard.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-03-31 10:34pm

A quote from slashdot: a fool and his money are best parted

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2004-03-31 10:37pm

This isn't nearly as bad as people who respond to those 'you've won! send $50' things. On the news yesterday some old people had consistently sent money to these things. Like, 20 individual instances each. And never worked it out. And then cried and complained because the evil men tricked them.

I laughed.

lazerus · Post by **lazerus** » 2004-03-31 11:02pm

What a fucktard.

Nah, just someone who gets a little TOO much joy out of gift giving.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-03-31 11:15pm

I wanna start something like that.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-04-01 12:36am

What the...? That's just weird...

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-04-01 06:27am

Stark wrote:This isn't nearly as bad as people who respond to those 'you've won! send $50' things. On the news yesterday some old people had consistently sent money to these things. Like, 20 individual instances each. And never worked it out. And then cried and complained because the evil men tricked them.

I laughed.

I should do something like that. Would solve quite a few financial problems

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » 2004-04-01 01:54pm

This I think is as bad as those people who play diablo and try to sell pixels on Ebay.

People pay hudredes of dollars for items in that stupid game, so that blizzard can screw them over anyway in some patch that nerfs their classes/weapons arbitrarily. Although, I think it is stupid to buy pixels anyway.

Hobot · Post by **Hobot** » 2004-04-03 07:35pm

This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer used the telemarketing machine to sell people "Happiness" by having them mail him 1 dollar.

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2004-04-04 05:44am

I could log into daoc right now, make a plat and sell it for $3 american to a company that sells plat to people for $4 <shrug> if someone feels they are willing to pay for something like that, no skin off my nose.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-04-04 06:10am

Maybe I should start a company that sells Dihydrogen Monoxide at 10€ per 1dl bottle. Some marketing slogans:

Dihydrogen Monoxide is present in all vegetables and fruits.
Dihydrogen Monoxide a major component in all health food products.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is absolutely essential to all life on Earth.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is nature's best remedy for thirst.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is present in large quantaties in all foods eaten by the Giant tortoise (Testudo elephantopus), the longest living animal on Earth!

It is a pity that couldn't market Dihydrogen Monoxide as "Organic", that is among the most powerfull slogans when selling crap to stupid people.