Blizzplanet has a list of all the bidders (for public humiliation purposes?) -- the "winner's" (if you can call someone out $20k a winner) name was Xeophonix, apparently from Italy. Only the first two bidders went all out -- there's one more $20k bid, and then it drops to $12k, $5k, and then on down from there to the much more reasonable bids around $500. But grats to Xeophonix -- hope the $20,000 sword is worth it. And watch your back -- we don't know exactly how you kill a Lich King, but if Weaponmasters didn't quite get Arthas' sword away from him for good, you might have an angry Menethil/Ner'zhul showing up at your door.
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4-03-2008 @ 3:40PM
cvpuck said...
weapon masters site says..
Our price $379.00
Quantity On Order from Manufacturer
Due in Stock: May 1, 2008
http://www.weaponmasters.com/shopping/FROSTMOURNE-p-17293.html
Unless im reading it wrong. It still comes with all the stuff... except for the arthas club thingy... hmm
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4-03-2008 @ 3:43PM
Adorable1 said...
This'll go wonders with his Dell laptop. ; )
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4-03-2008 @ 3:51PM
Naix said...
Ahh yes. Money well spent on a sword that will never be used in battle. It will sit over his fireplace only pulled from it's sheath when friends come over or when he is home alone and naked. Sure swords are cool, but for $20,000 I would have bought some other stuff.
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4-03-2008 @ 3:54PM
peaglemancer said...
"will never be used in battle."
Er, you talk about it like there are swords you might buy to "use in battle". Not sure which century you're living in, but we've moved on a little bit.
4-03-2008 @ 4:44PM
Naix said...
"Er, you talk about it like there are swords you might buy to "use in battle"
I would be willing to bet this sword is not folded metal with a sharpened edge to a point. So yes there are swords sold battle ready still today.
4-03-2008 @ 3:53PM
Stormtamer said...
It is the first in the world, so its abit more special than the $379 one, even if it is the same.
And we know how some WoW players feel about world firsts.....
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4-03-2008 @ 4:06PM
Xcelsior said...
What interests me are that a little less than half the bids (44%) are for less than the retail price of the sword. Makes me wonder if, as nice as the sword looks, the price is a bit too high. Of course, with an average price of over $1000 per sword for that auction, they seem to have done ok. :)
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4-03-2008 @ 4:21PM
kalar said...
you still have to pay the initial cost to join the auction, the people who bid $100 are paying that on top of the other cost...
4-03-2008 @ 4:27PM
vak said...
no Sulfuras, no care! :P
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4-03-2008 @ 5:08PM
David(Postal) said...
You know what they say, there's a sucker born every minute
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4-03-2008 @ 5:14PM
Blackhorn said...
Here's a thought:
You're not rich. Some people are. If you have the means to buy a sword for $20,000, congratulations. If you're driving around in a $450,000 car, and park it next to several others, what's a $20,000 sword on your visa bill?
I doubt this is some snaggle-toothed basement dweller who now has to put of plans to move out of mama's house because he just spend his mortgage downpayment on a sword.
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4-03-2008 @ 5:15PM
Blackhorn said...
Go Go Gadget typo correction machine!
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Damn gadgets never work.
4-03-2008 @ 9:53PM
Faar said...
While I agree with you entirely; this buyer is more than likely someone with more money than he knows what to do with, I can't help to be entirely and thoroughly disgusted by this whole auction thingy.
It reeks of nothing but sheer greed plain and simple. If the auction had been for a noble purpose, such as helping civil war victims in Darfur province of Sudan for example then I'm sure they might very well have got bids even higher than 20k (just look at what some people have donated to the Child's Play charity), and everybody could have felt happy about it instead of making snide posts about rich people dropping 20 large ones on a useless toy sword.
However this does not appear to be the case, and instead the auction is about nothing except gouging computer gaming geeks - affluent ones in the case of the ~top 5 bidders - but still geeks. Ripped-off geeks.
I'd feel embarrassed and ashamed to entice people to pay 20k for a numbered hunk of junk metal and then pocketing the entire wad of dough, regardless that this person probably won't miss the money spent on it. It's unethical, plain and simple and the people behind this auction deserve a firm kick in the nads for being such a bunch of greedy tw@s.
4-04-2008 @ 12:50PM
Alchemistmerlin said...
you're right Faar! Damn capitalism and the "What people are willing and capable of paying" ideals it is built on. That should be the people's sword! It should belong to all of us!
Damn hippies.
4-03-2008 @ 5:45PM
desfaber said...
That works out to 12,800-something Euros. So maybe the Italian dude figures that's a bargain... not something I'd spend my money on.
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4-03-2008 @ 6:17PM
Dave said...
what a wanker... sjees... its a game.. unless your a millionair its a lot of freakking fcking money..
im' drunk
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4-04-2008 @ 5:11AM
StillWaters said...
Ha Ha! That kid's Dad is going to be mighty pissed when he gets the Credit Card Bill :P
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4-04-2008 @ 6:02AM
Hugh "Nomad" Hancock said...
I have no problems with someone paying that much money for a sword. Hell, there's probably a sword out there I'd pay that much money for, if I had it available.
But for *that* moulded, mild steel, clunky thing?
*Headdesk*
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4-04-2008 @ 12:16PM
lehtinen said...
I keep hearing about this top 100....but the count goes from 1 to 99.....#100 is getting screwed!
And I so would have bought Frostmoure the CAR instead of a sword for 20k!
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