Poll: An offer: $2.5 million for literally everything you own

[RJ 17]

Yes, but only if allowed to back up all the important stuff on my computer to be transferred for when I get a new one. If I'm allowed to do that, you bet your ass I'd sell out. If not, then no.

At least I wouldn't have to move if I accepted the offer since I rent an apartment, I don't own a house.

 

[Starik20X6]

No way. By the time I've re-bought all my stuff (and a lot of it I can't, or would have to pay ludicrous amounts to do so) my actual profit from the whole endeavour would be pretty low.

 

[srm79]

Ex took the lot, I'd be surprised if my stuff weighed in at £2,500 at the moment. I live in a rented furnished flat, about all this person would get would be a wardrobe full of clothes, an ancient PC and a PS3 with some games. So er, yeah. That's close enough to £1.5 million - can't argue with that!

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I don't have a house, any form of personal transportation, and I have a busted TV and a PC circling the drain. The only things of value I have are my old CD players, games, books, cds, movies, and old toys which combined might equal 50k. I have no idea really.

My clothes are sad and most of them have little holes in them for some reason from the washer I use. Or there are some ninja moths in permanent stealth mode around here.

So yeah all my stuff would probably not equal even 200k by a wide margin.

I know for a fact that I could probably replace almost everything I own and continue living more or less the same quality of life with the rest of the money for the next 25 years at least. Probably the rest of my life really.

But when you think about it, they will probably consider your body their property now, and organs are pretty valuable. Jokes on them however. No appendix, gal bladder, or wisdom teeth, poor vision, poor lungs from birth, and my kidneys aren't doing very well this year. I wouldn't take my heart either most likely.

I do have lovely hands and skin, and I'm sure my bones would make good soup.

So if I could get a no prostitution/organ harvesting claus I'd give them my taco. Which kinda sounds like prostitution/organ harvesting, but its totally not.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Does this include my job? Because if it did then hell no I wouldn't. (My biggest fear is being unemployed)

If not then I'd be prepared to drop my pants at that very moment he gave me the money.

Actually, another thing; would that include my bank account? Because if he transferred the money into my account when I gave it to him, that wouldn't benefit me.

 

[WastedDuckling]

I would graciously accept the 2.5 mil, and in the couple hours he has given me, fill all of my hard-drives with copious amounts of illegal and illicit material, take out thousands of pay day loans (on the hope that he acquires my debt) and possibly fill my house with bomb making equipment. Then I would give it all away and inform the authorities.

 

[madster11]

I'd totally do it, but imma finish eating my taco and i need 1hr. Quickly borrow a family members hard drive and transfer everything i feel important, proceed to delete all my online accounts or make them impossible to access (confirm new email address: [email protected] -> Yes) and borrow some of my dads clothes. Wave goodbye to my ~$40k worth of shit, borrow dads van and go buy myself a new bed, note 2 and laptop.

Would have to make sure everything's legit, of course. He owns my online accounts, so that would include my online banking and even my card and such, so would have to make sure he doesn't just take the money straight back. Luckily i'm Australian, so i can just go to the RTA and be like 'lost my license, need a new one, license number is [x]' and i have a form of ID enough to get everything else rolling properly. Although providing i can just get the $2.5mil in cash, my new name shall be Hotschaft von Hugenstein and i will have all of the legal documents proving this to be the case when i move to Oahu.

 

[TheCommanders]

Everything I own is replaceable and relatively inexpensive, and I'm not sentimental so hell yeah? I could live for 25 years easily with that money. I never understood how the people pulling in that kind of money a year go bankrupt. They must be horrible at managing money.

 

[IronMit]

First I will think for 30 seconds weather I have anything that valuable; A special jewel I found in my loft that is map to an anchient treasure or oil under my house. Or an uncles inheritance that I don't know about

Then I will say yes.

I will find it a bit creepy if he wants to keep my hardrive and photo albums. I will try to make a quick copy.

 

[CounterReproductive]

So you're sitting around one day, eating a taco, when someone comes up to you and offers to pay you $2.5 million in exchange for every single piece of property that you own. He'll give you a couple hours before repossessing the clothes you're wearing at this moment, but everything else will be transferred immediately.

Your house, your car, your clothes, your online accounts, any heirlooms or souvenirs you may own, jewelry, games/movies, appliances, everything.

Do you take the offer?

(Oh, by the way, I'm not counting pets)

Ahem. according to most terms and conditions you do not own your online accounts. the service is provided to you. and therefore is owned by the corporation who made it. This means that any attempt to sell that account is a breach of agreement and you could be sued.... i think

 

[Poetic Nova]

Even with the 2,5 million, I wont sell it. To much sentimental value.

 

[Abomination]

He could even just take my clothes right then and there. It would be odd trying to buy some clothes in the nude when all you have a 2.5 million... er, would I at least be able to have a bank card? I'm thinking of the logistics of trying to carry around 2.5 million in cash with no clothing and thus no pockets/bags.

 

[Naeras]

I would laugh at that man for trying to scam me, and then tell him to leave me alone.

 

[KhaoticOne]

I feel 2.5mil is too easy of a choice for most of us. 500k would be a more debatable number. Heck maybe even 100k honestly (at least for me)

But going topic i would be a complete idiot to not do this. My worldly possessions would at most net me about at most 10k and thats being generous.

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

This depends on the if there were hassles involved. Such as dealing with taxes and the IRS etc. If I just somehow ended up with 2.5 million of clean, no strings attached, ready to go money in some bank account, then yes, I would. I'm not super attached to anything I own. I'm the opposite of the person who covers his/her room with posters and toys/statues/figurines/knicknacks of things they like. My room is bare; the most personal it gets is I have a poster I got from a DVD season of the Office sitting on top of a bunch of random stuff I haven't organized. That's as close as I've gotten to hanging posters. So, no, I could easily rebuild (and better) from what I "lost." I don't even own any particularly valuable property, except a decade old Honda Civic, a decent TV, my PC, an 9-year old snowboard and some game consoles. That'd be a raw deal for the buyer.

I would probably do the same for as low as $50,000 (but I wouldn't tell the buyer that )