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Solid gold XBox360 faceplate for sale on eBay


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And if you read the whole listing, by doing so you'd end up losing at least $15K since that's the actual material worth of the gold (according to the listing). All the labor and craftsmanship costs melted away into a rectilinear slab...

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Originally posted by Joel Schultz:

And if you read the whole listing, by doing so you'd end up losing at least $15K since that's the actual material worth of the gold (according to the listing). All the labor and craftsmanship costs melted away into a rectilinear slab...

Lose $15k. A mere bag of shells.

But very true. But I was making the point in relation to the Xbox for $12,000. Unless that's also made out of gold, there is no way to recoop anything on it. It's a total investment loss. At least with the gold face plate you'd get a little less than half the money back.

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Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr:

No takers so far.

As far as I'm concerned; if his friend is so rich, why is he selling the item on eBay? If I was rich - and stupid enough to have it made - I'd keep it.

Agreed, it doesn't make sense. If I was a skeptic, I'd say more like it was gold plated aluminum.

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