Saw this on CNN this morning: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=222791130
It’s had 2 bids, current price is $1,000,300
The guy has one positive feedback for selling on eBay in the past:
“Praise: This guy is great! I bought 10,000 AK47s from him, and the delivery was prompt!”
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I almost bought that thing - a million dollars is a good price for a nuclear capable sub - but my accountant told me I couldn’t afford to build a bathtub that big 
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My husband told me about the submarine last night. Wonder when eBay’s going to get around to yanking it.
Hubby: “Hey honey! There’s a Russian sub for sale on eBay!”
Me: “I don’t think so, dear.”
Hubby: “But look! It’s right here!”
Me: “Yes, I can see that. Can you say ‘joke,’ dear?”
Hubby: “But there’s bids on it!”
Me: “Get a clue, dear.”
Outside of kidneys for sale there the only other weird thing I came upon was a 1950’s mounted Gorilla Penis, starting bid $250,000, when I went for details, there weren’t any.
Russian Sub? I think if that were true they would not sell it in the USA Ebay, but the UK ebay.com unless they have a russian ebay site.
handy, the sub is currently owned by someone in F L O R I D A (as a quick glance at the linked page would tell you).
That said, I don’t think it is a joke. It was on CNN this morning and they also have a website http://subexpo.com/
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I know the story. You can probably search CNN and find links to it.
Some folks bought the retired sub (diesel-powered, not nuclear) from the Russians, meaning to use it as a tourist attraction. They moored it someplace off of St. Petersburg, FL, and then declared bankcrupcy.
From what I hear, the sub is in a very bad shape and not safe for the tourist to get on. I also heard that the Russians frequently sell their old subs and other ships for scrap metal, and you can buy a similar sub directly from them for about $250,000.
Actually, while you probably can’t really buy a sub, you can buy all sorts of other naval ships…
www.drms.dla.mil/special/ships.pdf
This requires that you have Adobe Acrobat reader…
Or you can take a look at other military surplus here…
www.drms.dla.mil/asset/pubgeo.html
Uhhhh…do I owe my husband an apology?
What better way to prepare for Y2K! Remove some of the crew berthing spaces and weapons storage areas, stock with food, beer, and entertainment, and retrofit as a big submersable party center for you and your friends to ride out the end of the world in comfort at 500 ft under the North Atlantic!
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Ah, so it is real Op…
Sure love that military surplus online site.
Doesn’t look like it has anymore nuclear warheads in it…
It never did have any nuclear warheads in it!
Not even the Russians are nutty enough to equip a tub like that with nukes!
A nuclear warhead would be more valuable then the submarine itself, and they aren’t about to risk losing one on a rustbucket like that.
Yes, as has been noted once, this is a deisel sub…
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According to various websites, the sub was not nuclear powered but was “designed to be capable of launching attacks on targets in the US mainland using four P-5 nuclear-armed cruise missiles.”
From the pictures, it looks like its already been remodeled extensively so that’s why the high price tag.
I wonder what the ebay fee would be?
Although incredible perhaps, the submarine is real, is facinating, was never purported as being nuclear powered but was a capable weapon that today may seem harmless but during the cold war effected millions.
Any ship or submarine that is no longer useful for its designed purpose can be rightfully called scrap. This submarine however has all of its equipment intact apart from the batteries and of course the weapons. It may need some paint but is quite sound. I am familiar because of my efforts to open a sister ship in San Diego. That project came to a halt partly due to the redevelopment plans of the Port of San Diego and the sale of the submarine to a German company that has opened it at Peenemunde.