Well, actually not a new high, since the item appears more-or-less unique (as in, no other has ever been offered on ebay before)...nonetheless, I can't help imagining Cino laughing himself into a coma over this one:
http://ebay.com/
Nice town bike, and completely original, it seems. That probably explains the final price..that and some competitive juice between the two top bidders.
Impressed me, anyway.
Charles Andrews SoCal
"Although the corporatist distaste for the Constitution is nothing new (cf., the deliberate weakening of the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments over the last twenty years), the guarantee of an always present danger extends the government's prerogative to enforce whatever rule of law happens to prove convenient to the rule of money."
--Lewis Lapham