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INTEREST: Gackt Cancels Yahoo! Auction of His Brooch After a 10 Billion Yen Bid




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kotomikun



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:12 pm Reply with quote
Wouldn't have guessed that Yahoo Auctions would even accept a bid of 91 million dollars. Or that someone would pay that much for Gackt's jewelry... may have been a fake bid, though. At least, I hope it was.
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Kougeru



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:46 pm Reply with quote
It was no doubt a fake bid. I think something similar happened with one of YOSHIKI's auctions? Yahoo just doesn't do enough to stop these fake bids. I'm guessing that's why GACKT is taking it to his own site where they can have more control
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:06 am Reply with quote
I don't think anyone believes this was a real bid
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YohAsakura84



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:07 am Reply with quote
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starting price of 9.99 million yen (approximately US$91,000)... market value of 40 million yen (approximately US$36,000)..

Somewhere math went wrong... Laughing
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