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Interesting ebay item - what are they really selling?
recently my partners mum was given a damaged, dodgy looking fiver in her change by a taxi driver - he handed it over folded up and it turned out a sizeable chunk was actually missing. We offered to pop into the bank for her and get it swapped but looking at it I wasn;t then sure if it was a genuine note and with non to hand to compare too I did a quick google image search and fell into the world of ebay sellers selling perfectly ordinary fivers that the seem to think are valueble because because the serial number starts 'AK47'
Anyway - amongst those was this a 'rare ripped £5 note'
Seemingly not ripped but neatly cut and with an odd hole in the corner. A mere £800 'for something to start my collection'. I could presumable complete my collection by tearing up 160 fivers.
Is the guy just nuts or is this some sort of coded transmission?
Anyway the happy ending is the note was genuine and the bank swapped it. The teller probably can't believe their luck and has put the rare ripped note - actually genuinely ripped - straight on ebay.
Does the 85p postage cover insurance up to £800?
My guess is he thinks he's made one of those hilarious listings for something that no-one's ever going to buy, but has a witty description (except he's skipped that bit), in the hope that someone might find it so hilarious they pay the obscene asking price for it.
I'd guess make it obscure then send a little some thing else with it.
Which was a wee bag of cannabis seeds in my case.
Puff puff pass it on!
I suspect some of these listings are for money laundering purposes. See also obsolete camera gear that no-one's likely to want regularly being listed for double its original RRP.
We were given a single colour £2 coin in the shop.
We had never seen one before so assumed it was worth a fortune and watched one on eBay.
It sold for £1.99.