Bidding for Yoshiki’s crystal piano passes 6 Billion yen!

[DeIdeal 0]

^

Actually, no. It's over 72 million dollars. I'm sure it's a mistake. Or troll. It has to be.

[nekkichi 6042]

how can that be 72 if $1 roughly equals 100 yen?

[Mei 276]

*goes bid*

[DeIdeal 0]

how can that be 72 if $1 roughly equals 100 yen?

...Not sure if serious? But you had the answer already, here, maybe you'll notice it now?

The current rate is $1 = 82.43円.

Geez, didn't/don't you people have math or Economy or something in school?

[sai 868]

I do xD ^

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

6 billion Japanese yen = 72.77400 million U.S. dollars

According to Google's current currency conversion thing.

[anieresus 270]

It really doesn't matter who it is, the point is that it's for something good.

[nekkichi 6042]

...Not sure if serious? But you had the answer already, here, maybe you'll notice it now?

The current rate is $1 = 82.43円.

Geez, didn't/don't you people have math or Economy or something in school?

Thanks for the lecture.

[deadman 321]

Looks like someone is indeed trolling,LOL

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/ ... from=main7

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42652756/ns ... ngeles_ca/

[anieresus 270]

I wouldn't really call it trolling

[LIDL 692]

what i am trying to understand is,

they stop the auction for awhile to see if the latest bid with gigantic amount is legit.

correct?

[Furik 832]

Yup

[Ito 2438]

Yoshiki is a giant attention whore and this bid is SO fake. There is no way that someone would ever bid that much, yet alone even close to that. If my memory serves me right, the most ever paid for a musical instrument at auction was $3.3mil. I would be shocked if this piano even surpassed that. I wish Yoshiki would have just have shut his mouth and donated out of his own pocket instead of doing this whole publicity stunt.

[anieresus 270]

So the 6 billion was indeed a fake.

This is from tokyohive.

By April 21st, the bidder responsible for the 6 million yen bid had been found, and the extremely high bid was discovered to be a very expensive prank.

Due to the extremely high price of the item, Yahoo! had temporarily suspended the auction to investigate the bidder’s credibility. Once the fake bids had been weeded out, the price of the piano dropped to 53,057,000 yen (~$650,000). The auction is scheduled to end on the night of April 24th with 100% of the money earned going to the Japanese Red Cross to support earthquake and tsunami disaster relief efforts.

[LIDL 692]

half of my symphaty gone when i read "Red Cross"