Guitar Hero III (Wii) sells on eBay for $9100 to Australia’s richest gamer

The world is a very strange place. An angry Canadian father comes home and finds his 15-year-old brat smoking dope with two delinquent friends. In fit of rage he puts his kid’s Christmas present – Guitar Hero III – up for sale on eBay. And what do you know, he sells the US$90 game to an Australian for US$9100.

The buyer, aspire1700computer, who obviously has much more money than sense, must be in the running to be Australia’s richest gamer.

The father explained the situation on his eBay auction as follows:

“So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son. Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends.

“As of the time of me writing this, he does not know I got him Guitar Hero 3. I will show him the auction once it is posted and we can watch it finish together. Sort of a ‘Father-Son bonding experience’. While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal (well I think pot is still illegal in Canada) drugs on my property.”

The father, who’s a school teacher, apparently spent two weeks trying to find the game.

However, the pot fiend son need not be too despondent. Daddy has promised him an alternative Christmas present:

“I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing With the Stars. These games are in stock everywhere I go, and I know he will just love them.”

On eBay aspire1700computer has a feedback score of 270 and positive feedback of 98.9%. He’s been a member since 2004. He’s hardly the type of eBay buyer that would bid on something that he wouldn’t actually buy.

Sellers have described aspire1700computer as:

“A great eBayer with great communications and prompt payment! Welcome back!”

and

“Very fast payment, excellent eBayer, thank you for come back. A++++”.

So in a nutshell, angry father punishes child, and makes more money in a single eBay auction than he does in a whole month.

Sure, the auction did attract a lot of attention, and so maybe that had something to do with the ludicrous price achieved for this auction. But still, this is certainly a story for the “you can’t make this stuff up” file.

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