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Was the BANKSY Wall On eBay Auction Sabotaged?

While the media is abuzz today with news of the BANKSY spray-painted wall that was just auctioned off on eBay last night for $409,206 (£208,100), no one’s taking the winning bidder’s relatively short and shoddy transaction history into account. A member since December 2007, 999toyota, has only bid on a total of 7 items, with the most recent and bigger ticket of them—damaged Toyota Corollas—not even being paid for, leading to this bit of negative feedback:

So naturally, if this eBayer can’t even pony up $1200 for a hoopty what’s the chances of them shelling out almost a half million dollars for a wall? We’ll bet this one gets relisted any minute now.