Record $2.1m bid for charity lunch on eBay

June 28, 2008

There’s no such thing as a free lunch at least not when it cost $2.1 million dollars. That’s what someone has just paid to lunch with Warren Buffett on eBay.

The high bid of $2,110,100.00 is the highest ever bid on eBay for a charity item with the proceeds going to the Glide Foundation. This news comes just after eBay announced at eBay Live! that they have raised more than $150 million dollars since the eBay Giving Works and eBay for Charity programs started.

The winning bidder is reported to be Zhao Danyang, a general manager at Pure Heart China Growth Investment Fund. He and up to seven colleagues will dine with Wrren Buffet at the Smith and Wollensky steak house in New York.

The high bid smashes last years Warren Buffet luncheon auction which raised a still very impressive $650,100.

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