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As we have previously reported [2], leftover items from the Full Tilt Poker warehouses were auctioned off, and you could buy lots of discontinued items in bulk for a low price. Check out how the auction turned out and what items managed to get sold.
The J. Sugarman auction house, who hosted the auction estimated they had about $3.5 million worth of FTP merchandise, and they managed to get about $130,000 out of it, which accounts to about 3.74% of the listed prices.
Pretty much the whole offering from the old FTP Store was available for purchase. The biggest sales were 250 dartboards, which were bought for $14 each for a total of $3,500, as well as the sale of 10 branded poker tables for the same amount of money.
The cheapest item was the FTP Cat Stress Reliever Toy, the lucky buyer got 5076 units for roughly $100.
You can expect to see most of the sold items on eBay, flea markets and garden sales in the following months.
There were a few useful items that found buyers, like 100 branded poker chip sets for $750 total or bulks of clothes going for around $0.50 a piece, but there were also plenty of ridiculous purchases, for example it's hard to imagine what anyone is going to do with 235 "Play with the Pros / Full Tilt Poker" license plate holders or 31 Full Tilt branded wall clocks or 6000 FTP mouse pads.
Probably the most baffling thing is that 15,609 copies of Howard Lederer's "Secrets of No-Limit Hold'Em" DVDs were bought for 10 cents each. Why someone would do such a thing remains a mystery, but it's also unclear why the buyer decided to get these, and miss out on the 22,372 copies of "Howard Lederer Tells All" DVDs? Surely they must be just as valueable.
Surely...