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A Sealed Copy Of Fallout 3 DLC Is Selling For Over $2,000, And Fans Have No Idea Why

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    'Collectable' or 'Fine Art' is being sold for lots of money

    It's Money Laundering.

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    If the item does sell for that much, money laundering seems like the most likely reason. The article says “selling” but it’s only “selling” in the sense that someone is trying to sell it for that price. There’s all kinds of shit listed for crazy prices.

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    • N [email protected]

      I don’t really think so, the person buying it would need to use laundered money to buy it otherwise it could draw suspicion.

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      Not the person you replied too, but I think this is still considered money laundering. If a person is selling illegal drugs (or whatever illegal product) and wants to receive the money “cleanly”, this would be a way to do so. Instead of selling the illegal item, they sell (or pretending to sell) a legal item but provide the illegal item. The seller now has clean money. I think this is still called money laundering.

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        It's a show piece. No one expects it to sell for that much but it gets eyeballs on the store.

        How this stuff makes for "news" is beyond me...

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          At least it's the alien one and not that depressing one... You know which one I mean.

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            'Collectable' or 'Fine Art' is being sold for lots of money

            It's Money Laundering.

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            Could be simpler then that. Look I got a Pokémon card here for sale lets say I want 500 dollars for it. Is it worth that? No but what I'm asking. Why because you can ask for any price you want, doesn't mean someone going buy it. This isn't news let me know when it sells for that. Then I would say your correct.

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            • M [email protected]

              'Collectable' or 'Fine Art' is being sold for lots of money

              It's Money Laundering.

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              It also keeps the value up for other “collectors”. I see this with NES game auctions. It’s always the same 6 people buying each other’s games to keep their own collections highly evaluated.

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              • mrzee@lemm.eeM [email protected]

                Not the person you replied too, but I think this is still considered money laundering. If a person is selling illegal drugs (or whatever illegal product) and wants to receive the money “cleanly”, this would be a way to do so. Instead of selling the illegal item, they sell (or pretending to sell) a legal item but provide the illegal item. The seller now has clean money. I think this is still called money laundering.

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                Right. And that's probably not what's happening here. This is not important enough to actually read the article, but if it's just being listed for sale at that price, not actually been sold, then nothing has actually happened.

                Also, $2k is not enough money to need laundering. You can just take that in cash and use it when you go out to eat the next few times.

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                  At least it's the alien one and not that depressing one... You know which one I mean.

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                  It was a pretty fun DLC from what I remember

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                    Is it SELLING for that price? Or is it LISTED for that price? I could put my beat up left shoe up for sale for $10,000 if I wanted to, but until someone actually buys it at that price, which nobody will, it's meaningless.

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                      Is it SELLING for that price? Or is it LISTED for that price? I could put my beat up left shoe up for sale for $10,000 if I wanted to, but until someone actually buys it at that price, which nobody will, it's meaningless.

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                      You can buy it yourself. Then list for 9k again and point out it's previously been sold for 10k. It's been done.

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