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Old 01-19-2009, 12:55 PM
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The first link, in my opinion, is total wackness. Some guy is selling a "Time Travel Theory/Project" For 20 million bucks.
Someone's a bit too confident.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Time-Travel-Theo...1%7C240%3A1318

The next, I'm a little confused about. If you can make sense of the crazy jargon, please enlighten me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/For-Sale-CORPORA...1%7C240%3A1318

Also, if you're interested (this isn't quite as expensive, only 3 million dollars. So much more affordable *laughs*) some guy is selling Fort Montgomery in NY. Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/For-Sale-CORPORA...1%7C240%3A1318

Have fun checking this overpriced crap out.
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"Please NO WAR MACHINES" haha. Why would someone sell a time machine for 20 million? You could easily make more than that if you had a working time machine.
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The next, I'm a little confused about. If you can make sense of the crazy jargon, please enlighten me.
The guy thought up a semi decent company name, "Typhoon Group Inc.", just like thinking up a band name. Then he registered it with the Feds as a commercial trademark. Doesn't require anything except a bit of money and some paperwork. Then he figured some corporate entity out there would be unable to think up their own stupid name, and would pay him millions of dollars for the rights to his trademarked name.
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Old 01-19-2009, 01:24 PM
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Dude, hilarious. That sounds like a semi-decent way for a burnout to make money. Hehe....*runs off to call feds*.

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Man if someone wants me to caugh up that kind of money for a time machine there had at least be some pictures of it!
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Old 01-19-2009, 01:38 PM
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If you actually read a little further into the first one, he is actually asking for $125 million but E-Bay has a limit of $20 million.

I hope it's real, that would be sweet.

It'll probably cost a brazillion dollars to buy one at first but you know the way technology works .. two years later K-Mart will have one for your home that runs off an 9V AC adapter for $29.95 .. but the extended warranty will cost you $5 more.
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Old 01-19-2009, 08:33 PM
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If a time machine could EVER be invented, it would be the first thing ever invented. Doesn't that make sense?
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Of course. If I discovered time travel, my first stop would be Ebay.
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Old 01-25-2009, 01:37 PM
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For the second item they're selling a company.
For the third link, is that legal?
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Old 01-25-2009, 01:46 PM
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Man if someone wants me to caugh up that kind of money for a time machine there had at least be some pictures of it!
heh, it's not a time machine. All he's selling is the concept brochure
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"PERFECT for MERGINGS or DEVIDINGS of CORPORATIONS!"

Yup, I'm going to spend 20 mil with someone that can't spell "dividing".
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Didn't Captain Time Travel see Back to the Future 2? All he needs is a sports almanac and he wouldn't have to sell his tech on eBay.
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the time traveling machine is really a steal when you think about it, you can just buy it, then go back in time and rob him for the money.
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