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The best eBay purchase ever!

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The best eBay purchase ever!
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The best eBay purchase ever!
July 18, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Zimbabwe, in all their economic wisdom, had so much hyper-inflation last year that they had to print 100 trillion Zimbabwe Dollar notes; each one was approximately worth $300 (US).

However, since their economy died and they are now using other currency (a mixture of USD, Euro, etc), all of these notes are now worthless. eBay has quite a few of them, in mint condition. So I bought one:

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I don't know what I love the most about it; the 14 zeros it has squashed together, or the fact that something worth $300 last year was bought in mint condition off eBay for less than $3. It's something I shall treasure forever, and use as a warning for my grandchildren about how not to solve an economic crisis.
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 18, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Thanks for that. I've just bought one myself for £1.35 plus £1.35 P&P Big Grin
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 18, 2010 at 3:41 pm
If anyone wants one, and lives in the UK, I can highly recommend this seller: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Zimbabwe-100-TRILL...2ea5c276ad

£2.18 per bill, and free shipping (he ships it in a cellophane pouch, in a hard-back envelope).
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 18, 2010 at 3:43 pm (This post was last modified: July 18, 2010 at 3:44 pm by fr0d0.)
I knocked him down 19p Big Grin

Arrived today - ditto excellent shipping.
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 18, 2010 at 3:44 pm (This post was last modified: July 18, 2010 at 3:44 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
Adverts in Zimbabwe must have been so much fun. 'Buy this fridge now, for only 300 million... 400 million... 500 million...' Also, if someone went on a gameshow and won the grand prize, by the time they'd won they could only have bought a packet of crisps.
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 18, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Every single religibot should start tithing with this currency. I'd almost pay one hundred trillion dollars to see the priests faces.
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 19, 2010 at 9:17 am
Awesome!
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July 20, 2010 at 8:40 am
Drinks are on me Big Grin

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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 20, 2010 at 9:06 am
Ha ha, congrats Adrian. You're a multi-trillionair! Big Grin
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RE: The best eBay purchase ever!
July 21, 2010 at 8:17 am
Pre WW2 Germany had the same "solution" to their money problems. In the war and resistance museum in Overloon there is still a bill of 5 billion Reichsmark which at the time might have purchased you a loaf of bread.

There are also photographs of people firing up their stoves with banknotes as that was cheaper than buying coal or wood for it.
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