eBay prankster dupes buyers by listing an ‘upside down’ fiver – and attracts thousands of pounds worth of bids
A PRANKSTER duped innocent eBay users into bidding thousands for a £5 note that was "printed upside down".
The seller received 21 offers for the "extremely rare" fiver with the sale price reaching a staggering £7,645.
The upside down note, which is clearly a flipped normal fiver, was describe as representing an "extremely rare opportunity for the most serious collectors".
The seller, named Mintros, adds he or she "can confirm that this is the only known upside down £5 note in existence".
Mintros' cheap joke has been made on the back of a wave of news stories about freshly-printed fivers selling for thousands.
The seller's post was eventually taken down and replaced with a message which read: "This listing 252586589212 has been removed or the item is no longer available".
However that seems to have done little to deter Mintros who appears to have put a second upside down fiver up for sale.
This time round the "bluey" has so far only attracted two bids and is up for sale for £1.20 with 9 days to go.
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The cost of postage to anyone wanting to snap up the topsy-turvy fiver is £4.01.
Freshly-printed fivers have entered the public domain to much fanfare with certain notes worth thousands if they were one of the first off the press.
Grandmother Gail Meikle, 51, has a £5 note with a printing error and received a bid of £1,699 for it on eBay.
Bizarrely a fiver with the serial number AK47, like the famous automatic assault rifle, sold for an outrageous £80,100.
After that a cheeky chancer with four "AK47 notes" put them all up on eBay for a ridiculous £1m.
It's not just £5 notes that have got cash collectors splashing the cash.
Small change can also be worth much more if it has a rare or distinguishing feature.
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