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Congrats to Tony for selling his Star Trek flat!
SCI-FI fan Tony Alleyne has sold his Star Trek-themed flat for an astronomical £425,000 -- FIVE TIMES its market value.The Sun Online - News: Star Trek fan soldly goes - Link.Enterprising Tony, 54, worked eight hours a day for two years and spent £30,000 turning his one-bed studio into the starship Voyager's flight deck.
Other flats in his block in Hinckley, Leics, have sold for a modest £80,000.
But Tony put his up for sale on eBay a month ago with a guide price of £130,000.
From the pages of MAKE:
In MAKE 07 we had a "Made on Earth" about Tony Alleyne's apartment turned-Star Trek starship renovation project. MAKE 07 page 18. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 07 @ the Maker store.
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May 31, 2007 06:00 AM
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| Posted by: jordan314 on May 31, 2007 at 7:53 AM |
Good for him! I remember reading an article about him a while ago and it had made it seem like this project had made him penniless and lost his marriage. While those appear to be exaggerated I do think he was having some financial problems at some point. In any case, it's nice to see someone rewarded handsomely for something as creative as this.
| Posted by: rehorstmark@netscape.net on May 31, 2007 at 8:38 AM |
Good! Now he'll have time to GET A LIFE!
MR
| Posted by: philliptorrone on May 31, 2007 at 8:41 AM |
get a life, as in shop at ikea, watch tv - just like many many many others?
:)
| Posted by: Austringer on May 31, 2007 at 3:57 PM |
Just focusing on the finances of this little project and ignoring taxes he's made £315,000 on a two year project. That's $310,000 a year! It he's willing to live at the US median income for a couple years he'll have a lot more time for a life than I ever will at my corporate type job.
Maybe I should pick up some plexiglass on the way home.
| Posted by: blubrick on May 31, 2007 at 6:28 PM |
Well, focusing solely on the finances, it has turned out to be a nice little earner.
However, those are two very different photos of Tony. I don't know how far apart they were taken, but it seems to me that this project(*) of his has put a lot more than two years on his face.
That plexiglass just might cost you more than you realise.
(* hobby? diversion? obsession?)
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