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Old 12-01-2012   #1
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Cardboard Wii-U controller does 90.000 dollar on E-Bay...

After reading the big difference in Wii-U prices for different countries I did a little research on the Net and came across this:


Price for this 'beautiful' Wii-U controller made out of cardboard? Well, it went up to 91.300 dollar on Ebay

in case you hadn’t heard how crazy things got towards the end, here’s the deal: The cardboard cutout of the Wii U Gamepad (above) had bids upwards of $90,000 over the last couple of days before being removed by eBay administrators for some ridiculous reason like “This is stupid” or “This is a piece of cardboard. You can’t charge this much for it.”.

While the lister won’t be getting rich quickly off of this hilarious mockup, he’s probably pretty happy that things went as far as they did...
source: http://nintendoeverything.com/106840...ng-taken-down/
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/26/ca...-much-on-ebay/
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Old 12-01-2012   #2
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so what ebay rules did this break exactly?
seems the ebay admin are strange
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Thats quite dumb. The admins more than the item.

Surely the people knew that it was cardboard and wanted it for whatever reasons they had, but why would ebay take it down? Jealousy?

Its no where near the strangest and insignificant item that has benched way more than its worth on ebay, so find it strange it was taken down.
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So guys I bought it but I can't seem to turn it on, HELP!!
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Originally Posted by HulkWogan View Post
So guys I bought it but I can't seem to turn it on, HELP!!
its region locked. your wii-u must be made from cardboard from the same region. sorry but you should have researched first :/
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Originally Posted by HulkWogan View Post
So guys I bought it but I can't seem to turn it on, HELP!!
You need to charge it first .... I can sell you the cardboard power supply for 20.000 dollars if you want, for an extra 5000 dollar I can also deliver the cardboard base holder for the controller

Edit: and looking at the folding stripe in the middle of the controller.... you do know folding a controller isn't the smartest thing to do eh, even if it is made out of cardboard
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Old 12-01-2012   #7
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No it's fine now, I just needed to draw a green dot on it so it would turn on, thanks for the help.
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What a prick. The money could've gone towards a charity.
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This sums up my thoughts:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdECDLeWPFE
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They would had just not paid for it and took the strike against their account...
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