"Noah's Ark tickets" sold for 99mln yuan by online store in Lhasa- People's Daily Online

"Noah's Ark tickets" sold for 99mln yuan by online store in Lhasa

15:27, November 30, 2009

As the doomsday movie 2012 sweeps the world, the "world's end" has became a hot topic leading to many netizens selling tickets for a real life "Noah's Ark" event.

Recently, many netizens began to sell tickets for "Noah's Ark" in their online stores, with prices ranging from 1 to 100 million yuan. One of the online stores in Lhasa marked the price as high as 99 million yuan.

Hits on the website reached 100, while some have received some 5,000 hits. However, not one successful deal was made by the time this report was published.

Many shop keepers considered selling the "Noah's ark ticket" as a way to popularize their online stores. As more online trade websites were established, the competition between different online stores becomes more and more fierce. The owners have to attract netizens in some special way.

By People's Daily Online