I Have Never Really Understood Games Like This,

where you pay real money to create a character,

take the case of this Chinese gamer, he upgraded his character by spending money on his creation, would you call it that? $1.4 million as it happens on his character in the MMORPG Justice Online and he nearly lost his character, all because of a friend, Geek.com has the details:

in this case of Justice Online, the original player lent his pricey character to a friend. The friend then apparently tried to sell the character back for about $55,000, but accidentally listed the price as $552 instead. This led to yet another player snapping up the great unintentional bargain before any other sales could go through, fortunately, it all worked out. The sale was reversed. The character returned to its original home, and the innocent frugal player who bought the character got over $12,000 in damages,

 $1.4 million for a character, $12,000 in damages? I really do not understand any of this.