XXXX bids 14.5 mil on a bottled dark faerie...

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:36 pm

What's the deal with this auction?! How weird..

http://www.neopets.com/auctions.phtml?t ... id=9715604

Bottled Dark Faerie (owned by ritorna)
A faerie of darkness is trapped inside this jar. Release it and your pet may be blessed.

xxxx 14,500,000 NP 20/8/2004 10:09am

?!

Last edited by HollyPop on Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:39 pm

Probably someone transferring nps from one account to another, or transferring nps to another person for whatever reason.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:42 pm

Or a New Member not knowing what they're worth...

I still remember my early days on Neopets... So many people were wishing for bottled faeries at the Wishing Well that I thought faeries were the most valuable item in Neo...

Ah, those were the old days...

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:46 pm

Heh.. it's no new member.. it's XXXX, he's very famous on neopets.

He must be transferring NP but it seems a ridiculously visible way to do it. I know the TP limit is 800k but at least people can't see your bids on that..

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:47 pm

Or someone hacked him and is transferring it this way.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:48 pm

It really doesn't look like a hack, as the other account looks awfully established for that sort of behavior... unless both were hacked. It's probably just a friend/relative/significant other or second account (although I'm leaning towards the first category).

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:49 pm

Plus no newbie would have 14 million.

Probably just transfering NP to a friend. Or scamming. Hm..

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:50 pm

Someone should see if they can Neomail him asking what's up about it...

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:50 pm

Shifty wrote:Plus no newbie would have 14 million.

I haven't ever had that much, and I registered back in 02!

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:53 pm

DM was on fire! wrote:
Shifty wrote:Plus no newbie would have 14 million.

I haven't ever had that much, and I registered back in 02!

Heh. I've been playing since December of 2000, and I've never had that much either.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:55 pm

And I've been playing since September '01 and never had higher than 400k.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:03 pm

Zero wrote:And I've been playing since September '01 and never had higher than 400k.

And all the items I have are worth a total of 50K and I've been playing since 2002.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:07 pm

OK, I think we made our point about how poor we all are!!! Hehe.

The auction has finished now.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:08 pm

DM was on fire! wrote:
Shifty wrote:Plus no newbie would have 14 million.

I haven't ever had that much, and I registered back in 02!

I've never had that much in liquid assets before, but I'm sure if I started sellign all of my stuff I could manage it - but why would I sell my stuff?

It's a neopoints transfer. And XXXX is well-known enough that the staff probably wouldn't shut down this auction anyway.

Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:16 pm

Its a pay over auction for an f sling giro said because tristin was to unpatient to use it or something like that, he already paid the other half in items atleast thats what griofalcon said