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EBay Bidder Pays $351,100 For Lunch With Warren Buffett

Buffett is donating the money to the Glide Foundation, a charity group that works with the poor and homeless in San Francisco.
A bidder on EBay Inc. has won a power lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett for $351,100.

The auction ended Thursday night and the winner was identified as "hanka3153." Bidding had started at $25,000.

Money paid to spend a bit of time with the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway is going to the Glide Foundation, a charity group that works with the poor and homeless in San Francisco. Buffett has hosted lunches over the last several years to benefit Glide.

The winner will be able to take up to seven friends to the lunch, which will be in either Omaha, Neb., where Buffett lives; or in New York. Buffett and the winner would select a time, date and location.

The package does not include travel and accommodations, but is tax deductible.

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