This Handwritten Note Might Be Worth $10,000

But is it the genuine article? A user's silly auction of a handwritten note containing only the word, "The" on eBay Australia has attracted at least 44 bids, with the top bid at time of writing a whopping $10,099 AUD (that's about $9,320 in U.S. dollars). According to eBay, the auction began on May 22 with a bid of $0.99. At first users placed bids of a few dollars, but then things heated up. Three days after the auction began, bids in the thousands came rolling in. The seller, whose user name i...