An unidentified buyer has purchased a quarter share in President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) ancestral home for NT$2 million, Yahoo Taiwan said yesterday.
Pranksters had bid up to NT$999,999,999 on Yahoo's auction site for a stake in the house where the president was born to impoverished tenant farmers 54 years ago, but those bids were canceled, a Yahoo Taiwan spokesperson said.
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"A total of 332 people offered bids from 11pm on March 1 to 11pm on March 11," she said. "The final winning price was NT$2,005,820. The buyer and seller will meet to sign a contract," she said.
Chen Shui-bian and his wife also own a combined 25-percent stake in the same traditional red-roofed farmhouse, which has become a tourist attraction since the president took office in 2000.
The Presidential Office declined to comment on the auction.
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