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A limited edition Iron Man-themed Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has been bought for $91,000 by an anonymous bidder in China. Android Authority reported the piece fetched such a high price due to its serial number of 66 — six being a lucky number in China, and 66 therefore being double lucky. The device went for almost 100 times its …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Wonder how long it'll take for companies to create their devices with two serial numbers. An internal serial number, hidden away, and a visible serial number, identical for each device, always being "666".

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    1. Anonymous Custard
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      Joke

      And Iron Maiden must be kicking themselves for not including the actual numbers on their historic album cover...

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  2. Tenacal
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    66

    Obviously a very lucky number. For the seller if nothing else.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Boffin

      Re: 66

      Wasn't that lucky for the Jedi.

      (Yep, that was an unnecessary star wars reference, made by me on a techie website. Must re-apply the faeces to the sick I use to keep the hoardes of women away from me.)

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      1. Professor Clifton Shallot
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        Re: 66

        "Must re-apply the faeces to the sick I use to keep the hoardes of women away from me"

        Wow, you would have thought the vomit on its own would be enough of a deterrent.

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    2. John Mangan
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      Re: 66

      You could argue that if the buyer had $91,00 to spend on this then he (for it will undoubtedly be a he)has already been quite lucky.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Bit confused

    The Chinese go mad for "8". not "6".

    A Chinese guy paid millions for a Hong Kong plate numbered "888" a few years back.

    Or did this guy get outbid for "88" and had to settle??

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    1. Allan George Dyer
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      Re: Bit confused

      It gets complicated... 0, 6, 8 and 9 are considered lucky. 4 ("sei") sounds like death, so stay clear, but 54 ("ng sei") sounds like no death, so that's good. If you're creative enough... who knows what explanations you can invent.

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  4. Tenacal

    Always 666? Trying to appeal to both the niche Satanist market and the not-so-niche Chinese market?

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  5. It'sa Mea... Mario

    8?

    How much would it have fetched if it was 88?

    8 being considered the luckiest number in China..

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  6. Lee D Silver badge

    God, people are dumb.

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    1. Yag
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      People are people. No more, no less.

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      1. Lee D Silver badge
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        Thanks for the uselessly redundant and reducible equality there.

        People are people. And people are dumb. A person might be smart, but people are definitely dumb.

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          I just spent 45 minutes preparing what equated to meat and three veg.

          So yes, we're dumb. The things we waste time, effort and money on...

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          1. Jedit Silver badge
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            Boffin

            "I just spent 45 minutes preparing what equated to meat and three veg."

            If that's a euphemism for masturbation, you will be of great interest to medical science. Either they'll want to find out why you're not made as most men, or they'll want to find out how someone can type coherent sentences while being unable to count to two.

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    2. Daniel B.
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      Yeah, the Chinese have weird superstitions. It does make me wonder why the hell would a language have one of its numbers sound like "death", it just causes stupid stuff like this. Chinese buildings skip pretty much any floor with a 4 in it.

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      1. John Mangan
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        "the Chinese have weird superstitions"

        I suspect all superstitions look weird from outside the culture that originated them.

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  7. Terry 6 Silver badge

    As my dad used to say...

    More money than sense.

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  8. Wombling_Free
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    Thumbs up!

    Just like audiophile cables, casinos and horseracing - separating idiots idiots from money.

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      1. Midnight
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        Re: Thumbs up!

        We're not talking about garden variety idiots here, these are genuine idiot's idiots.

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  9. Anonymous Coward
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    69 more lucky?

    6 and 9 are both 'lucky' numbers in Chinese according to wikipedia, so wouldn't 69 have been better as it's 69 whichever way around you read it?

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    1. Yag
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      Re: 69 more lucky?

      Inversion of cause and consequence : When you get lucky, then the 69 may follow...

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    2. Kubla Cant
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      Re: 69 more lucky?

      6 and 9 are both 'lucky' numbers in Chinese

      And according to other posts here, 8 is lucky, too. 30% of the single-digit integers. The Chinese must get a lot of good luck.

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    3. Mark 85
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      Re: 69 more lucky?

      I thought 69 was always lucky....

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    4. FozzyBear
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      Re: 69 more lucky?

      and considering its dinner for two thats tonights menu sorted.

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    5. Allan George Dyer
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      WTF?

      Re: 69 more lucky?

      And 6 ("luk") sounds like flow, 9 ("gau") sounds like long lasting...

      Where's the NSFW icon when you need it?

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  10. John 104

    Lost in translation

    Are you sure it didn't sell for 91,000 Yuan? Still a tidy $14,560, but not quite so embarrassing...

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    1. petur
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      Re: Lost in translation

      nope: 568,788 Yuan or 118.6 million won

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  11. King Jack
    WTF?

    Sell by date

    Don't phones become obsolete in around 18 months? When the network G version changes what then? When you need more memory or an OS update in the future? Some people have the intelligence of a dead spider. Why? Because it's got 8 legs so it's worth emulating.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Sell by date

      Better be $91,001 worth of lucky over those 18 months I guess.

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      1. Tom 13
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        Re: Sell by date

        I'd think he used up all his luck just getting the phone.

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  12. Seanie Ryan

    idiots will buy any new shiny thing that Apple make ... oh wait.......

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  13. montyburns56

    What a waste of money.

    For that kind of money he could have bought his girlfriend a very nice engagement ring...... oh, right.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: What a waste of money.

      Sorry to be a pendant, the Chinese dont really do engagement rings; the money WOULD probably buy a very nice wife though - the Chinese still have "Bride Prices".

      I picked mine up cheap, because she had been married before (I haggled MiL down 50%).

      (NOT a Joke Alert)

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  14. Flextel Founder
    Holmes

    Phone's wear out numbers don't

    Some great points in this forum.

    Our Chinese friend could have saved a load of money and got a permanent lucky number that never wears out. Universal Cloud-based numbers are designed for this very purpose. Search Flextel for 6666 or 8888 or even 6969! Lol!

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