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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Italian Auction

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A Chinese Ming vase is up for auction. The bidding opens at a half-million Euros. Bidding is brisk and each bidder is clearly identified as each raises the bid by 100,000 Euros. (The exchange rate today is 1 Euro = $1.54.) Within seconds, the bid stalls at one million Euros, and the gasp from the crowd identifies the excitement that prevails in the room.

The successful bidder is the last one who bid one million, and the auctioneer counts down the bid... "Going once, going twice, and sold to the gentleman sitting in front of me for one million Euros."

Now, you are going to have to see the video for yourself to see the surprising conclusion.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hehehe

Anonymous said...

OMG I wasn't bidding and my heart stopped.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if that really happened, would the auctioneer owe the owner the money that it sold for?

Anonymous said...

Oh, No.

Anonymous said...

I have to read the comments before I watch any more videos on your site LoL...Scared a monster is going to jump out...but luckily no scary monster at the end of the video.