Crypto Opinions & News Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

[upnorth]

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/buyers-of-bored-ape-nfts-sue-after-digital-apes-turn-out-to-be-bad-investment/

The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021. A Sotheby's auction duped investors by giving the Bored Ape NFTs "an air of legitimacy... to generate investors' interest and hype around the Bored Ape brand," the class-action lawsuit claims.

The boost to Bored Ape NFT prices provided by the auction "was rooted in deception," said the lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Central District of California. It wasn't revealed at the time of the auction that the buyer was the now-disgraced FTX, the lawsuit said. "Sotheby's representations that the undisclosed buyer was a 'traditional' collector had misleadingly created the impression that the market for BAYC NFTs had crossed over to a mainstream audience," the lawsuit claimed. Lawsuit plaintiffs say that harmed investors bought the NFTs "with a reasonable expectation of profit from owning them."

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

Lawsuit: Sotheby’s $24M sale to FTX gave Bored Ape NFTs “an air of legitimacy.”…

arstechnica.com

 

[simmerskool]

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

Lawsuit: Sotheby’s $24M sale to FTX gave Bored Ape NFTs “an air of legitimacy.”…

arstechnica.com

coincidence: I was going thru some older unread email from 2022, 2021 and one from tor project about auction for first Dusk .onion website NFT. I have no idea if that was a good or bad investment, but it just seemed ODD to me that tor project was offering this...

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

This, to me, is a natural process of things balancing-out. NFT's and catchy Web3 domain names(.onion etc) have been ridiculous prices for years, as has Bitcoin.

It still doesn't devalue the usefulness of Blockchain as a technology. The true value of a token/chain is its inbuilt functionality. Digital images, domain names and currency tokens have zero inherent value and hence, are pure speculation.

 

[cartaphilus]

This, to me, is a natural process of things balancing-out. NFT's and catchy Web3 domain names(.onion etc) have been ridiculous prices for years, as has Bitcoin.

It still doesn't devalue the usefulness of Blockchain as a technology. The true value of a token/chain is its inbuilt functionality. Digital images, domain names and currency tokens have zero inherent value and hence, are pure speculation.

Not to threadbomb but does anyone know when it would be a good time to sell my rare collection of beanie babies so I can pay off my college tuition?

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Not to threadbomb but does anyone know when it would be a good time to sell my rare collection of beanie babies so I can pay off my college tuition?

Mmmmmm, I'm sure "...there's an app for that".

 

[cartaphilus]

Mmmmmm, I'm sure "...there's an app for that".

Depends how paranoid you are regarding what you are placing on the cloud.