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Some (Insert Insult Here) Paid $17,000 For A BlackBerry Javelin On eBay

eBay continues to amaze. Nowhere else can we find stories as baffling as this one. Some eBay user by the name of jdavidson31 paid $17,100 for the unreleased BlackBerry Javelin. Exsqueezeme?

Of course, eBay will probably cancel the auction. Until it does, however, user jdavidson31 can count himself as one fooli..., er, lucky fella. I mean, jdavidson31's story is already all over the Internet. He or she has won his or her 15 minutes of fame. My guess is, this is not the type of 15 minutes jdavidson31 had imagined.

IntoMobile went so far as to look up all the John Davidsons on LinkedIn. There are quite a lot of them, some with jobs in technical fields. (I hope this person isn't in your network).

This lucky winner is a resident of Canada, homeland to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. Perhaps jdavidson31 is an employee or contractor with RIM who wanted to make sure the device was kept in the dark until its official release, which hasn't been announced yet.

In any event, the old saying appears to hold true: A fool and his money are soon parted.

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