NES sold for $50,000.00USD when listed for 35k: a great story of support or a fraudulent bid?

EDIT: The bid was eventually withdrawn, as many people suspected.





Sometime ago, this auction [LINK] was posted, which was an NES bundle including the system, the zapper, and a few NES games. The asking price was a very high $35,000, but the seller supposedly really needed the money and was selling his prized possession.

Well, now the NES has supposedly sold for a whopping $50,000. There are two options for this:


1) A very nice person has just donated $50,000 to this man in need, or

2) It is a fake bid that will never end up going through.


The most plausible of the two? Probably, the latter. I'll update once something new happens. If it goes through, this may be one of the greatest and nicest things done on eBay.