Since the inception of eBay in September 1995, the online auction site grown quickly into one of the largest online marketplaces, based around the idea that lets eBay just be the auction house for individuals selling things. People buy or sell just about anything on the auction site including Homes, Mega-Yachts, and luxury automobiles, some of the most expensive items on the site, with prices needing up to eight digits.
The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a 405-foot, steel mega-yacht (marketed as a Gigayacht) auctioned by the Fort. Lauderdale, FL based company, 4Yacht and designed by naval architect Frank Mulder of Mulder Design. The yacht was offered up for auction on eBay November 3rd, 2006 with a “buy now” price of $85 million. The price paid your 50% deposit of the full purchase price of $168,000,000.00 total. The sale of the most expensive eBay item coincided with the 46th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Craig Timm, President of 4Yacht Inc, is a strong advocate of using eBay as an additional marketing tool for his company competing in a global market.
4Yacht is at it again, as of January 2007, they are currently auctioning off another one of their Giga-yachts for a deposit of $99 million. Some of the astounding features of the yacht include: a range 16,000 NM, a helicopter garage, and fourteen multi-level VIP suites with panoramic views. If sold on eBay, this year’s edition of the yacht will hold the title of the most expensive item on eBay.
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wow thats one expensive tug boat
lmao, this is one yacht i would like to ride
Who has that kind of money hanging around? “Oh, darling, what on earth are we going to do with that spare $168 million hanging around?”
“Oh, I don’t know…look on eBay, see if they’re selling a 405 foot mega-yacht or something.”
i lmao to that one, nicely said
They really do have everything on google…
HOLY yud think they will buy it for $168,000,000.00?
i rode on that beast of a boat for only 5oo grand(: it werent all that
well, for a person who has 500k sitting around, you'd figure you could use proper grammar.
wow im pretty sure ppl thet would buy that are stupid and do not have the right to have that much money when there are so many homeless ppl in the us thats just selfishness. !!!!!!!!
………so its the rich ppls fault that there are homeless ppl on the streets?
COMMY!!!
they do have everything on google i was just curios
lol nathan you’re right, i googled this too. google can i own and it’ll say “can i own a canadian” also its not selfish to buy something for yourself. Do you own a TV? I’m sure that someone with that much money donates to charity.
Jorge, I'm sure 70% of the homeless people are just to lazy to find a job.. That shouldn't be rewarded!
Tell me how you came to your conclusion that 70% of the homeless are just to lazy to find a job. Show me a CEO who makes more money than they could ever use stand up and say that he is willing to take a pay cut to save the jobs of the workers who have lost their jobs to overseas workers who do the same job for below poverty wages. The problem of the homeless is not laziness, but the solipsistic beliefs of the rich.
Quit whining about those people buying expensive things, so what? You would tell me that if you had that much money you would donate to charity? Don’t BS yourself, the modern philanthropist does it so noone sees that he donated, because then they get prosecuted for tax evasion on some newspaper.
Jorge, don’t blame the individual when it is the system that is at fault. The fact that we live in a society where an individual can make that much money is the real problem. A person can’t reasonably be expected to give away more than a certain percentage of their wealth.
There should be some price cap on how much annual income a person can make–or at least some sort of formula (like one based on an estimate of how much that individual contributes to the GDP). People shouldn’t be able to get so much more out of the system than they actually put in. It must be possible to create income restrictions that don’t interfere with the motivation to get ahead. No one needs a $168 million yacht.
that my friend is very similar to communism. it never works. its only good on paper.
I've always been a strong supporter of a maximum wage law that would limit CEOs to a maximum salary of 25 times the amount of their lowest paid worker. It use to be that way back in the 40's and 50's and now we see CEOs who make over 1000 times the amount of an average paid worker and they still don't seem to be content. Jimmy LaFave said it best in his song "This Land":
"Life is hard, times are tough, and the ones who have to much seem to never get enough"
jorge and matthew, i dont agree with anything u two have to say, our family company makes around 800,000,000 a year, and out of that much we donate around 100,000,000 a year to charities, i understand u dnt make near that much, but were donating almost 15 percent of our net income, how much do u donate to charity huh? if u made 30,000 a year do u go n donate 3,200 a year to charity? i dont think so, so don't be blaming us saying that we dont do our part, because we make a big impact in this world, just this month our company donated 150,000,000 to haiti, so don't try and judge us calling us greedy as if you know us, btw we own an 80 million dollar gigayacht, and we worked hard building our company from the ground up, id say we deserve everything that we own. go make something of yourself and stop trying to blame us for it.
i think it is fantastic
rich people suck
To Matthew isn’t that “cap” your on about most commonly reffered to as comunism
Brian p. I doubt u make 800mill and homeless people are usually lazy so why should thou be rewarded for nothing they have earned..
Its not selfish to buy something for yourself. Rich people didn’t get there money free, why should homeless people?
@mathew your right no one needs a 168 million dollar yaught. But no one also needs a tv. No one needs a bath tub. No one needs a gameboy. No one needs books. And if they earend all there money they don’t NEED to donate any of it. They earned that money. Just like they don’t NEED a yaught
lol u sound like goerge lopez when his kid wanted to go to florida
all i can say is well done to who ever has that kind of money to pay for it!
everyone here used google, other then me. i use yahoo and i got the page 2x as fast yahoo ftw<3
It would be a big change in anyones life as far as value is concerned if $160 mill is pocket change to some it is little different to a poor person buying a loaf of bread , The big difference however is the value of a life on this planet , a cheap injection , a small amount of medical care or the loaf of bread can save a life
whilst others have only to worry about their social standing amongst others and are willing to pay huge amounts of money to display this, hence Yachts like this and millions being paid for a unique car number plate even being available
It is generally called unfair distribution of wealth ( GREED) something that the rich and all of the people who govern us are so good at ,
I developed a serious illness a few years and nearly died, as self employed i couldn't pay my mortage and there was no help available so my house was taken from me and my family by a Greedy Bank who have since been bailed out by the taxpayer ie me, these are the very people who even totally incompetent in the workplace can still afford these toys whilst casting others on the the streets and be totally secure in their future !
We are now homeless , Nice decking though !
hahaha you guys are all stupid I own Google and I only make $2 a day
Billion dollar businesses keep thousands employed overseas as they cut their American workforce in the name of profit for the CEO and board of directors which is made of other CEOs from other companies. Also if you look closely it was the billion dollar businesses that came crying for corporate welfare like they always do when the folly of trickle down economics caused the markets to implode.
When the government stops subsidizing businesses with tax breaks, grants, and other corporate loopholes let me know. Until then I stand firmly in the knowledge that the greed of the masses is the downfall of America.
That's pretty nuts!
The Evil Villians League is very appreciative of these megayachts…who else could afford them?