{"id":136584,"date":"2010-01-04T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5439761"},"modified":"2010-01-04T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T18:50:00","slug":"curious-man-buys-3-billion-cd-rom-for-windows-98-on-amazon-shipping-was-an-extra-4-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136584","title":{"rendered":"Curious Man Buys $3 Billion CD-ROM For Windows 98 On Amazon, Shipping Was An Extra $4 [Amazon]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Brian T Klug has balls, I’ll give him that. Why else would he have bought a Discovery Channel<\/a> CD-ROM (Windows 98) incorrectly priced on Amazon to the tune of $2,904,980,000 just to see what would happen?<\/p>\n

<\/a>As you can see from the image above, the result was that…well, he spent $3 billon on an ancient CD. However, It wasn’t long before Amazon noticed the record payday and cancelled the order<\/a>. Despite the fact that the payment was impossible to process, I wouldn’t have been surprised if Klug’s little fiscal adventure backfired in a big way—either with destroyed credit or crippling debt.<\/p>\n

The seller behind the CD has a good rating, and it is obvious that this was a typo. What I don’t understand is why a new seller jumped in to sell the CD at a comparably inexpensive $250,000. Looks like Orbit Inc is trying to pull a major scam. [reddit<\/a> via Consumerist<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Brian T Klug has balls, I’ll give him that. Why else would he have bought a Discovery Channel CD-ROM (Windows 98) incorrectly priced on Amazon to the tune of $2,904,980,000 just to see what would happen? As you can see from the image above, the result was that…well, he spent $3 billon on an ancient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}