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December 27, 2005 4:15 PM

Le Grand Jardin.For only $65m dollars you can own a thousand year old villa along with the bastille that housed The Man in the Iron Mask.
posted by OpinioNate (10 comments total)

Huh? I don't get it. Is it a scam? Surely if you had such a property, you'd list it in Architectural Digest like every other person with a high-dollar property. Those photos look like they were poorly scanned from a text book or magazine...
posted by hincandenza at 4:22 PM on December 27, 2005

I suppose it's typical for someone to go from selling gaming cards to selling multi-million dollar properties if a few auctions.
posted by blackvectrex at 4:28 PM on December 27, 2005

I was skeptical, too. But apparently Hugh Grant is already interested.
posted by OpinioNate at 4:29 PM on December 27, 2005

Order now and get the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon Holofoil Yu-Gi-Oh! Japanese Promo card FREE! With gold lettering! RARE!
posted by sellout at 4:29 PM on December 27, 2005

I smell scam, bigtime. I'd be willing to overlook the multiple spelling errors and so forth; they're French. But if you're selling a property of that size and historical value, you don't put off the kind of people who can afford to spend that kind of money, I'd imagine.

And you don't fucking use eBay.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 4:30 PM on December 27, 2005

Those photos look like they were poorly scanned from a text book or magazine

Poor scanning would be several steps up from taking 30 seconds to photograph a few pages from a guidebook set on your couch.

One would have to be seriously high to bid on this.

Shipping: Pickup only

Damn.
posted by medialyte at 5:24 PM on December 27, 2005

pages from a guidebook

Maybe this is like those ebay scams where you think you are bidding on a plasma TV, but its realy just a picture of a plasma TV.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:37 PM on December 27, 2005

I'm confused by the page title. Is Hurley buying the place?
posted by hipnerd at 5:54 PM on December 27, 2005

Perhaps Billy Bragg would be interested.
posted by shoepal at 7:30 PM on December 27, 2005

What? This isn't about Xeni?
posted by a. at 3:46 AM on December 28, 2005