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'England' up for auction in Weblo virtual world
0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — An online virtual world playfully branded "Monopoly on steroids" is offering England to the highest bidder, with the winner to be crowned king or queen.
The website Weblo.com, a reality-based virtual world launched in December of 2006 by a Montreal-based firm of the same name, announced it was putting "England on auction."
Bidding begins Thursday and is expected to top 70,000 dollars by the time the auction gavel drops July 12.
California is the most costly Weblo "property" to date, bought at auction for 53,000 dollars, according to company spokesman Sean Morrow.
"We thought we could break out of the mold by not just letting someone be the president of a country, but the virtual king or queen," Morrow told AFP.
"We...
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