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.”
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
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?
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!
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.
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!