{"id":57478,"date":"2014-08-14T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=57478"},"modified":"2014-08-14T01:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:08:31","slug":"sam-sungs-apple-auction-on-ebay-sees-price-drop-85000-after-fake-bids-removed","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/sam-sungs-apple-auction-on-ebay-sees-price-drop-85000-after-fake-bids-removed","title":{"rendered":"Sam Sung&#8217;s Apple Auction on eBay Sees Price Drop $85,000 After Fake Bids Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5588\/14666865368_1aa0b10604_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" \/>Sam Sung is raising money for charity by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/sam-sung-apple-2014-08-07\" target=\"_blank\">auctioning off his Apple business card<\/a>. The ironically named former Apple employee was hoping to raise $10,000, but bids on his package&mdash;which includes his uniform and lanyard&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/sam-sung-apple-2014-08-07\" target=\"_blank\">blew past $80,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I came across one of my old business cards the other day when it fell out of a book,&#8221; Sung says. &#8220;I honestly can&#8217;t believe what the auction is sitting at just now,&#8221; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/sam-sung-apple-2014-08-07\" target=\"_blank\">said last week<\/a>&mdash;before fake bids were removed and the price plunged to less than $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Sung, whose name bears striking similarity to Apple&#8217;s number one competitor in mobile, Samsung, says the funds will be donated to Children&#8217;s Wish B.C. and Yukon. The charity is obviously disappointed after being &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; that the $87,000 bid was legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The auction closes tomorrow night, so there&#8217;s still time for real bidders to step in and reach Sung&#8217;s $10,000 goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Sung is raising money for charity by auctioning off his Apple business card. The ironically named former Apple employee was hoping to raise $10,000, but bids on his package&mdash;which includes his uniform and lanyard&mdash;blew past $80,000. &#8220;I came across one of my old business cards the other day when it fell out of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":57480,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-57478","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/57478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/57478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57478"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=57478"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=57478"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=57478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}