S77th-konkussion Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 :thumbup: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/30/135703.shtml?s=ic TEXT: Reprinted from NewsMax.com Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:51 p.m. EDT China: Man Buys MiG Fighter Jet on eBay A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane from a U.S. seller on the online auction Web site eBay for $24,730 and plans to use it to decorate an empty space at his offices, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Beijing News newspaper identified the Chinese buyer as Zhang Cheng. "I like to collect valuable items. I have the buying power and my company has an empty space where I can display the plane," the newspaper quoted Zhang as saying. The eBay Web site for the transaction shows the plane is currently located in Lewiston, Idaho. It said the fighter jet, last flown in 1995, has been inspected by a museum and found to be in excellent condition. The seller was only identified by the username "inkgirle." The Beijing News quoted Zhang as saying he learned from the seller's son by telephone that the fighter jet was retired by the Czech military. It wasn't immediately clear if the fighter jet can be imported into China. Zhang said he is waiting for government authorities to get back to him, The Beijing News reported. An operator at China's customs department said no one was available for comment. "There is the precedent of a Chinese company buying a retired aircraft carrier, but I don't know if this jet plane is a banned item," Zhang reportedly said. Zhang was apparently referring to the Soviet-built Minsk aircraft carrier that a Chinese company bought and converted into a floating theme park in the southern city of Shenzhen. The company went bankrupt and recently put the ship up for sale. The report gave no indication where in China Zhang was located. eBay's government relations department didn't immediately respond to a reporter's e-mail seeking comment. [sIGPIC]http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=43337&d=1287169113[/sIGPIC]
SuperKungFu Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 lol nice. Some cool stuff/weird stuff gets sold on e-bay. I remember i these two: sorry for the small pictures, buts it an F/A-18A Navy Blue Angel Hornet sold for US $2,800,000.00 And the other one is a Mig-29 sold for US $3,500,000.00 And then i saw some1 sold his grandmother on ebay...and some1 bought her...wtf [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
britgliderpilot Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Bit more background on that article - there was a Soviet VTOL carrier that was bought by the Chinese, but I think he's actually referring to the Varyag sale to China . . . . . $24,730 must be a static display article - have seen an airworthy MiG21 sold on eBay for about ten times that much. Sounds about right for a stripped-down display plane . . . . Honestly, though, you could probably get the same article from Russia without the shipping costs - man sounds like a muppet ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
SuperKungFu Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Didn't someone also bought the Buran Space Shuttle off of ebay? That must be cool but i think the price remained classified. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Weta43 Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 He does sound like a muppet, but then again you can't do conspicuous consumption & bargain basement shopping at the same time - many more bragging rights in a purchase from a dealer in the states than from a scrapheap in Russia (oops, wrote USSR, then remembered - showing my age...) Cheers.
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