This Diabolical Hipster Hoodwinker Almost Sold a Bag of Brooklyn Air for $20,000

Then eBay stepped in to stop the madness

An eBay user this week diabolically played on people's love of all things Internet—where silly things often rise up #FTW—while trying to persuade any random rube to buy a Ziploc bag of air for as much as $20,000.

Here's how the apparent swindler went about his or her business: While satirically winking at the fact that the hipster-friendly Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., has become a cost-prohibitive place to live for most people, this anonymous eBay user posted a bag of air for sale from the neighborhood earlier this week, according to the blog Brokelyn.

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