Titan Missile Complex Up for Sale

ckeck writes "Take a look at this, some guy in Washington State is auctioning off a 'Titan Missile Complex' on eBay. I don't know if this is a fake auction or not, but I already talked to the gentleman running the auction on the phone and plan to take a visit to the complex! This would be an awesome place to live! Check it out here." Looks like he bought it in 1999.

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Looks like a fake

[b0s0z0ku]

His other visible eBay transactions were a photo flash, a hammer drill, and a camera case, all of which he bought, not sold.
There are no pictures of the land except a rather fuzzy-looking diagram. Were I interested in something costing almost $4M, I'd expect to see pictures. Available information leads me to believe that this is a fake or prank, possibly using a hijacked account.

-bosozoku

Re:Looks like a fake

[fafaforza]

The parent should have been modded Funny!

C'mon, who buys such property based on pictures on an online auction site? If you were at all serious, you'd call the number listed and arrange for a tour. Pictures are only useful for curious web users as something to gawk at as most of us average citizens are already priced out of this offering.

Not good for a home

[pieterh]

Living underground has many practical advantages. All-year insulation from heat and cold, no neighbours, no leaking roofs, infinite space for expansion if you care to dig.

But... we're descended from tree-hugging primates, not moles, and living underground is a sure way to go crazy. A home needs sunlight, a view, and fundamentally, people within easy reach.

I'd rather live in a shoddy 1-room appartment than in a hundred room bunker.

Re:Not real bright, is he...

[Bryant]

Except that it's not actually an auction. I made the same mistake (hey, it's EBay), but there's no place to enter a bid and if you look down at the bottom it says:

"This listing is an advertisement. There is no bidding! If you are interested in this property, you may contact the seller/agent to request additional information."

Which is probably smart. If it were an auction, it'd have eleventy-million fake bids by now.

It also tends to indicate that this is a real property. If it was just someone goofing around, it'd be an auction. That's not strong evidence, but it's certainly an indication.

sound studio!

[plams]

I've always looked for the perfect place to build an audio production studio. It would need to be stylish.. and well isolated.. I guess you could play with plutonium-powered speakers in this place, without getting complaints from your neighbours.

Moderators, you've been had

[Imperator]

I don't get it. Why would the government spend lots of money monitoring property it has sold to private citizens, especially when said property (stripped of the nuclear missile, obviously) is not particularly useful for causing harm? Do you have some evidence to back up your claim or is it just a paranoid conspiracy theory?

Or are you just making stuff up to gain karma? A look at your journal reveals the answer, and it's one that should make your moderators ashamed:

This account was created for a challenge purpose. [...] Get Excellent karma using ONLY insightless/wrong/misleading/clueless comments. Most of ideas presented will be flawed, informations made up and so on. Sometimes I may post true info if it's my wild guess, but I will be posting it as "informed/confirmed info" for that purpose.

Oh, and what are you planning to do afterwards? Why, flamebait your karma away. Moderators, please nip this plan in the bud by making sure that Archangle's karma stays low. And an advice to those with aspirations to cause mischief: don't post about them in your journal.

Re:Time to move :)

[erc]

1. Buy missile complex for $300K or less.
2. Get $500K in donations to fix up your own private property (a scam in and of itself).
3. Sell on eBay for $3.95 million.
4. Profit.