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pete3799 07-12-2013 12:40 PM
Missed it by THIS much... most expensive car sold at auction
 
Most expensive car ever sold at auction fetches $29 million - NBC News.com

livi 07-12-2013 12:53 PM
Gorgeous car for absolutely silly money.

GH85Carrera 07-12-2013 01:30 PM
Crazy money. One has to wonder if that was sold to someone that earned the money or inherited it.

Maybe it sold to the Mercedes museum.

Laneco 07-12-2013 02:21 PM
Did you see that the buyer's premium was 3 mil? Holy smokes... talk about outta my league. :eek:

angela

pete3799 07-12-2013 02:43 PM
Yeah......3.15 Mil for swinging the gavel.....not a bad days pay.

BE911SC 07-12-2013 02:46 PM
It's called conspicuous consumption. Paying a lot for something because you have a lot to pay with. This sale will be topped by someone who wants to be more conspicuously rich than this guy.

Dan J 07-12-2013 06:31 PM
if you're a Billionaire you've got a thousand million dollars
If you had a thousand dollars would you think hard about spending $29.00?
Probably not

911SauCy 07-12-2013 06:33 PM
Pure FUCH YOU money right there. Awesome car

ckissick 07-12-2013 11:00 PM
I would much rather have the '57 Testa Rossa for $16 mil. But I can't even afford a '73 911S anymore, so this is all very, very moot.

tevake 07-12-2013 11:08 PM
Well summed up above. Conspicuous spending. Should have gone for the auction costs.

nynor 07-12-2013 11:18 PM
conspicuous spending.... learning something new. thanks!

ForBell 07-13-2013 04:51 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BE911SC (Post 7545173)
It's called conspicuous consumption. Paying a lot for something because you have a lot to pay with. This sale will be topped by someone who wants to be more conspicuously rich than this guy.
I heard from a friend of a big hitter that the ultimate game is to continue to out-bid someone at auctions just to dominate that another bidder. Even at a loss.
Now that's a power game.


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