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Not an April fools BTW, just stumbled on this over at eBay:

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Price seems excessive to me, even though they are sealed originals.
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Sounds like either (a) someone has a massive over estimate of their value, or (b) it's a money laundering scam.
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I guess value is in the eye of the beholder. I mean, I bet these kinds of things sell eventually. If I were a bit silly rich and had a nostalgia for my childhood Lynx, I'd probably buy it, if 15k was spare change to me.
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stephen_usher wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:28 pm Sounds like either (a) someone has a massive over estimate of their value, or (b) it's a money laundering scam.
Yep, agree with that.
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Steve wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:44 pm I guess value is in the eye of the beholder. I mean, I bet these kinds of things sell eventually. If I were a bit silly rich and had a nostalgia for my childhood Lynx, I'd probably buy it, if 15k was spare change to me.
Agree on the value thing for sure, I have paid over the odds for things purely and simply because I really wanted it. On the other front, if I were stupidly rich, I'm not sure I'd pay £15K for these.
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