Bored Ape NFT whale Franklin lost 100 wrapped Ethereum (WETH), worth roughly $150.000, to a joke bid gone wrong for an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain he registered on July 20.
The joke started on July 19 when Franklin asked his followers which “phrase or meme” they wanted him to place a 100 WETH bid on to trigger the ENS Bids Twitter bot account.
What phrase or meme do you want me to have the ens bot tweet out as a .eth address with a 100 WETH bid? Lol I would have to mint the ENS address myself too.
— Franklin 🅱️uilding 57 apes (@franklinisbored) July 19, 2022
Franklin then registered “stop-doing-fake-bids-its-honestly-lame-my-guy.eth” using a different wallet and placed a 100 WETH bid from his main wallet.
However, Franklin got a surprising offer of 1.9 WETH (roughly $2800) from someone else for the ENS domain. He accepted the bid, took to Twitter to celebrate his “win,” and forgot to cancel his last 100 WETH offer for the same ENS name.
Well this is the most surprising 1.891 ETH I have ever made. I owe it all to #ENS and @gweiman_eth’s creative idea. #Marketing101 pic.twitter.com/wk6CFBkugx
— Franklin 🅱️uilding 57 apes (@franklinisbored) July 20, 2022
Meanwhile, less than 30 minutes later, the new owner of the ENS domain name accepted Franklin’s forgotten 100 WETH bid –essentially selling the domain name he bought from Franklin for $2800 back to him at $150,000.
Oh no, I lost 100 ETH. I was celebrating my joke of a domain sale, sharing the spoils, but in a dream of greed, forgot to cancel my own bid of 100 ETH to buy it back. This will be the joke and bag fumble of the century. I deserve all of the jokes and criticism.
— Franklin 🅱️uilding 57 apes (@franklinisbored) July 20, 2022
Franklin took to Twitter to lament the situation tweeting that he didn’t get “botted” and had “plenty of time” to cancel his offer.
The Bored Ape whale is now trying to regain his lost 100 WETH by refunding the 1.9 WETH he got from the ENS…
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