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eBay For Millionaires
AC writes "Got $2 million in assets? Then you can join BillionaireXchange; just the place to find a 2006 Bugatti Veyron with a Start Bid of $1,050,000.00. Or perhaps you are looking for a boat like the Disco Volante (from James Bond), for example the 2000 Azimut Motor Yacht, a lovely 85-footer with a Start Bid of $2,700,000.00. On the other end of the deal, did your hedge fund leave you in the lurch? This is the place to sell those extravagant toys you thought you could afford."
Alternatively, you could try giving your Veyron a salt water wash...
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2009/11/video-bugatti-veyron-pulled-from-saltwater-lagoon-after-crash.html
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An interesting article and definitely newsworthy. But it's not for /.
Here, it's a slashvertisement.
...until an M$, /\pple, 5oogle, exec sells something, even if it's not geek related.
Do millionaires trading houses and planes infringe on my rights in some way?
But will they have Airwolf, lasers and the head of Keith Moon? http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuacdNd5L
"Their Right Online" to sell over valued crap just like common blokes eBay theirs, in order to keep creditors from attaching and disposing of more necessary assets.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
No top secret island bases, personal space stations, gold cigar holder and lighter combos that can double as a handgun and definitely no sharks with frikkin laser beams. In short, nothing that any self respecting billionaire /. reader would want to spend their money on.
I'd be curious to see a poll of how much slashdot readers earn. Then we'll know how many people actually find this new article interesting/useful.
The ridiculously rich support a not insubstantial group of brokers of second-hand yachts, planes, luxury cars, real estate, art, and so on. These businesses generally have flashy offices, high-paid staff, and collect a fair amount of commission for helping facilitate the transfer of said assets from those on the way down to those on the way up.
The business skills of the very rich are often overrated, but most of them are smart enough to figure out that cutting out the middlemen saves both the seller and buyer money. This lets them do it without the embarrassment of parading their failures to us plebs.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Life imitates Colbert, yet again.
If you have less than $1million in liquid assets, you are not allowed to read this post. Please jump to a new page.
If I had to sell something expensive on an exclusive site, I would go for something more serious looking. Putting ads on the front page makes this look like (more of) a cheasy hype site
Somebody ought to join and list the earth for sale. Buy now for $100 trillion!
Seriously, "BillionaireXchange.com"? Way to sound low rent guys. Was it a toss up between that one and "RichguyzAuction.biz"?
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None of the auctions have any bids, and all of the vendors have 0 sales. Sounds like a web2.0 winner!
:(
Sure, they sell stuff worth millions. But are they standards compliant? That site looks pathetic in Firefox. Considering the "elite" audience they are trying to attract, they could be directly turning away around 50% of their visitors. I would not like to put my millions on a site like this...
I can see it now: Please enter your SSN, Credit Card Number and Birthdate. If you're worried, take a look at our privacy policy .
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
... now all we need is "BillionaireITeXchange -- news for rich nerds, stuff that really doesn't matter" so we have somewhere to post stories like this one!
What a dumbass
You would think that a site for billionaires could afford a read web designer and would not use a rocket theme joomla template. http://demo.rockettheme.com/aug08/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
now that the felonious bankers are secured (beyond our comprehension/forever), maybe you could throw some of us old/crippled folks a 'bone', seeing as we did the work that made the billionaires, ebay & almost everything else you see around you. not to mention that what little $$ we had saved was stolen by those same bankers. but you already know that? we know that you're somewhat hogtied by same. thanks.
This exclusive market sounds like an excellent place to levy a 25% Federal sales tax.
Most of those qualifying assets come from TARP and other government handouts. The rest are all enabled by the US government protecting the "capitalism" that collects that kind of money in individuals' hands: socialism for the rich. And all of it is protected from other taxes by an army of lawyers and offshore tax shelters.
Give these rich people a toy exchange as bait for them to pay their way in supporting the government that makes their riches possible.
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Interesting - you can buy A-rod's house online. I guess winning the world series doesn't pay as much as it used to.
(..and yes, I am a bitter Red Sox fan)
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04282006
i'd buy airwolf in a second.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
I looked through all the listings and I couldn't find one with any bids at all so I'm kind of wondering if the site is real or not.
;-)
I can't find anything to prove that it's parody but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Anybody got $2M in assets to find out if it's real?
"Bah!" - Dogbert
The business skills of the very rich are often overrated, but most of them are smart enough to figure out that cutting out the middlemen saves both the seller and buyer money. This lets them do it without the embarrassment of parading their failures to us plebs.
Yeah, it kind of sucks having to hire lobbyists to pester congressmen so that you can get at the taxpayer's money. It did help when they started giving Wall Street boys and corporate executives high positions in places like the treasury and the federal reserve system or even making them vice presidents but it's still not the same as direct access.
$ 49.000.000 when the same Yacht can be bought for $ 14.000.000 (http://www.oceanindependence.com/yacht_forsale.php?id=2377) ?
It looks as if my company realizes that nobody gets paid enough to be able to place a bid on this site. They've gone ahead and blocked it so we won't be tempted to bid on items out of our price range. How thoughtful...
Slashdotters unite, we could all pool 1 dollar each into a bank account under a name which will never be used except if we all signed off on it, and create an account to then associate with this new found 2 million dollars, to which then all of /. could view at their leisure, without buying anything and keeping the money frozen to always have free access.
It would be pretty cool, although I doubt after the first 100k it would still be there... i think someone would find a way to steal the money.
The only billionaires I see are the owners of the site, racking up huge listing fees. But - but, NO ONE HAS ACTUALLY BID ON THE ITEMS! Shocked.
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an education apparently isn't required for sellers. Check the titles of some of his "art".
http://billionairexchange.com/xchange/other_items.php?owner_id=100011
"Falboart" apparently thinks highly of his cubist work. Is Falboart an anagram for "Borat Laf?"
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If you are a millionaire with a couple million. I don't think you'll want to buy a $1 million toy. Also, imagine the sales/use tax on that you'll be paying to your state, probably another 100 or 200k, unless you're in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon.
I don't get the tag "let the meat cake".
What is a meat cake? And what should I let it do?
I wonder what they charge to list items on a site that is receiving no bids?
how pathetic. mynuts won; to be deleted by buyassed stock markup felons.
A billionaire site running on Joomla. typical
From the article: "requiring of prospective members a minimum of $2 million in verifiable net worth."
...Ebay
let the meat cake? I don't get it.
Whoever put this up is a super-villain.
The only question is - is (s)he just looking for perspective victims, or is (s)he trying to trap a potential billionaire-playboy-vigilante.
You know... someone like Batman.
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When theres a 2008 Model up at only $450k:
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So many assumptions and so little time... what to do?
WOOSH goes the joke, right over the moderator's head...
The description:
THE ULTIMATE NEW 100' WATERFRONT HOME, DESIGNER QUALITY & CRAFTMANSHIP, 12' CEILINGS, GRAND DOUBLE STAIRS TO INTIMATE SITTING AREA ADORNED W/MARVELOUS ROTUNDA CEILING, VIEWS OF WIDE BAY FROM MOST ROOMS, DOUBLE MASTER SUITES, THEATER/LIBRARY, DEN W/FIREPLACE & BILLIARD RMS. KITCHEN: COOKING ISLAND W/COMMERCIAL VIKING STOVE, DBLE APPLIANCES, ADJ. MORNING/FAMILY RMS, FRENCH DRS TO COVERED TERR-SUMMER KIT. LARGE DOCK AND INFINITY POOL.
You think they could have paid someone 5 bucks to actually spell words, and not look so angry.
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
Here and google has a whole bunch of stories on the site and him here
Watch out if the Bugati is from Texas...Some guy just put his Veyron in the salty drink down there while retrieving his cell phone from the floor...
Got $2 million in assets? Then you can join BillionaireXchange
So the "Billionaire" "Xchange" only requires $2M in assets? Somebody's off by almost 3 orders of magnitude, base 10....