How to be stupid, in public

Yesterday, we got word from haloruler33 that a rather bizarre auction was going on over at eBay. Someone who’d registered on Thursday had started an auction for a Halo 2 pre-release playable game. There was a bit of discussion in our forum about this – many people warned the bidders that this was likely not real. By yesterday evening, things had gotten out of hand; the bidding, which had been creeping up by $50s and $100s all day, suddenly started jumping by thousands. At 11:38 pm (PST), the bid had reached $100,000. By 15 minutes after midnight, it peaked – at $99,999,999.00. And that’s where it closed, at 7:15 this morning. It’s quite possible this page will be yanked by eBay – there’s fraud on all sides, more than enough to go around – so we’ve put up a static (no working links) local copy. The exception is the Bids link – that works, and points to another local page. Bungie’s been alerted – but I’m really doubting this is anything but a scam, in any case.