# You can buy WHAT on ebay? (redux part 23) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-buy-what-on-ebay-redux-part-23/144848 "2002-12-25T16:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-buy-what-on-ebay-redux-part-23/144848/1 "2002-12-25T16:12:24Z")
OK ebay is not content with selling houses, but now you can buy an entire town! [http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1791801094](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1791801094) My plans for blowing [billions of dollars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=152158&pagenumber=2) on playing a real life version of TheSims is one step closeer bwah ha ha ha ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-buy-what-on-ebay-redux-part-23/144848/2 "2002-12-25T16:21:58Z")
I think it is misleading you into thinking you will own the whole town. No, more than think, It **is** misleading you. > [@](#): > > You will own an area called Chinese Camp. [snip] It sits on a **seven acre** parcel next to the beautiful Van Dusen river. bolding mine. It says you get a working town, blah blah blah. Uh huh, for only half a million dollars? It also mentions it has 117 students, which would mean an estimated population of 200 people, where do these people live? Do every single one of them just rent from the current owner? Sounds fishy. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-buy-what-on-ebay-redux-part-23/144848/3 "2002-12-25T22:37:40Z")
It’s real - it is a pretty-much-abandoned logging town - the tress have all beeen cut, so there is no commerce. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/12/24/national1458EST0595.DTL](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/12/24/national1458EST0595.DTL) ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-buy-what-on-ebay-redux-part-23/144848/4 "2002-12-26T01:09:46Z")
How odd. Interesting though. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-buy-what-on-ebay-redux-part-23/144848/5 "2002-12-26T02:07:09Z")
This is more expensive, but a better deal if you’re in the market for a town. [Town Seeks Solitude-Loving Owner with Deep Pockets.](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=573&e=2&cid=573&u=/nm/20021224/od_nm/ghosttown_dc) They want $3.2 million, but look what you get. > [@](#): > > A real estate company here is offering the deed to Playas, New Mexico, complete with a view of the mountains on 1,800 acres, with 259 homes, 25 apartments, a community center and a six-lane bowling alley, featuring a snack bar. > > Not to mention its own post office, bank, fire station, medical center and ambulance, two churches, a rodeo arena and an airstrip. Jim