UnReal Estate Sales Are Up

You Gotta Love This!

Here is a guy who makes $3,917 a month selling imaginary items.

Ok, it’s not what you are thinking, he is not taking people’s money. He is actually selling them imaginary items that they want from an online game.

I am having trouble deciding if this is about UnReal Estate or Making Money?

Say What?

• In December 2002 I published an article in Wired magazine called "Unreal Estate Boom, or, The 79th Richest Nation on Earth Doesn't Exist." It's about people who buy and sell -- for real dollars, and sometimes for a living -- imaginary fortresses, weapons, and other figments of the massively multiplayer role-playing game Ultima Online. That article is not about me, or about the fairly predictable Ultima addiction into which I was falling as I wrote the piece, or about the possibly harebrained conclusion to which that addiction finally led me. This web page, however, is about all those things. Here you will find a regularly updated record of one man's attempt to get rich selling, literally, castles in the air.


• e-mails trickled in from wide-eyed strangers the world over, wanting variously to know how they too can quit their day jobs and make $3,917 a month selling imaginary castles, and suits of armor.

Link: I just checked and he is not selling any more imaginary real estate, so you missied your opportunity.