In 2006, an Australian man opened a bid on the e-commerce platform for the country of New Zealand. Bids started at $0.01. Bidding prices climbed all the way to $3,000 before e-bay officials shut it down, adding “clearly New Zealand is not for sale.” Still, New Zealand was salty about the prank. The country’s foreign minister at the time even called it “nonsensical stupidity.”
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abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.
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