F/A-18A (was) on eBay : Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

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F/A-18A (was) on eBay

17th February 2004 by Simon

I spotted an item on Slashdot about someone selling an F/A-18A Navy Blue Angel Hornet on eBay. Last time I looked it had risen to US ~~$8,100,300.00~~ US $8,130,305.00 (that has changed in about 15 mins).

There’s some great comments on /. about it.

One particularly earnest person comments

I would hate for some wack-job with money to get a hold of one of these, get some armament via the black market, and use it to do something regrettable.

To which the reply was

Too late - he’s already got ‘em. And I don’t think you should be calling the President of the USA a “wack-job”.

Following some discussions on whether the purchaser of the plane would actually be able to fly it, given the need to hard to attain approval, someone commented that

“So unless you’re ex-military, you’d have yourself a $9 million lawn ornament.”

The great response came

I would love to have a F/A-18 sitting out on my lawn. In the fall I could use the afterburners to clear all the leaves from my yard. In the winter they could melt the snow on my driveway. I haven’t thought of a use for spring and summer yet…

The final highlight underlined how many of the people reading slashdot have the time to research. A couple of people had looked in to the eBay purchasing history of a few of the bidders, questioning whether they actually had the millions they were bidding

wtmahan has bought repair manuals for a 1995 Nissan Protege. Anybody who drives one of those, and wants to fix it him/herself probably cannot afford an F/A-18.

The high bidder now apparently sells juggling clubs for $20 a pop. He can’t possibly be serious. The guy who was high bidder this morning at least had among his past purchases a pilot’s carry-on bag, a wooden model of a twin engine Cessna, and some sort of “pilot training on CD” software.

Update - eBay have pulled the auctions and some have alledged that the seller, Michael Landa, is dishonest.

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