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paying a bag for a fake

If you've seen the Matrix too often, you're easily persuaded that Noob was shut down because their Sub had become indistinguishable from a Rolex. Parity had been achieved. The threat to the System became too great. This forced The Man (Xi Jinping) to deny the Noob to the masses. Ergo a Noob Sub is now a collectible. Even at $1,000 it offers a real world saving of $14,000.