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The bizarre cult of Steve Jobs claimed another victim yesterday when an unnamed “collector” squandered US$220,000 (7.8 million baht) on a pair of Jobs’ dirty old sandals, the latest of the Jobs’s relics to come under the hammer.. The “well used” brown suede Birkenstocks dating to the mid-1970s set a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals, Julien’s Auctions said Sunday. The listing on the auction house website said… “The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs’ feet, which had been shaped after years of use.” The California house where Steve Jobs […]

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