He bought two pairs and had it confirmed by Sony that they were indeed fake.
As a teen, he bought two police scanners, then dropped out of high school to become a paramedic.
He bought a two-story building around the corner from his original location and subleased his old loft.
He naturally assumed they were scamming him into buying a high-priced custom, so he spent the next two years going from shop to shop, unable to find anyone who could offer to sell him a bike that fit, riding a painful compromise the whole time, before biting the bullet and investing in the Serotta, which he now wishes he had bought two years earlier.
He bought Liverpool from two other American investors, George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who had burdened the team with debt and left it nearly bankrupt.
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At least, he says, he can take solace in knowing he had bought his two sons two new bicycles, which they had so badly wanted, before they died.
Rather, he was looking for a practical way to store two old planes he had bought for aerobatics displays.
The following year he bought a second Renoir, two Gauguins, two Cezannes, two Manets, two Monets, a Daumier, a Seurat and a Van Gogh.
He has held on to Amazon, Priceline and Ebay--the first two are down sharply since he bought--and aol Time Warner.
Over the next two decades, he bought many radio and television stations.
He quickly bought another ticket, and the two men flew to New York and then rushed to catch the Acela to Washington.
Nearly two decades later, he bought that company.
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In 1995 he started IAC and bought the Home Shopping Network two years later.
He responded that a Chinese competitor of his bought two machines from him with that idea in mind but had to shut both down within six months because he lacked the qualified workers to operate them.
Now, at 43, he and his wife, Julie , have bought two ranches in southwest Montana-the 1, 800-acre Beaverhead Ranch, with 5 miles of the Beaverhead River running through it, and the 2, 000-acre Big Hole Ranch, which rises 1, 500 feet from the Big Hole River up to grazing land for a herd of 400 elk that borders a national forest.
He bought a share in the association, which owns two boats and has its head offices in Port O'Connor at the head of Matagorda Bay.
Number Two: he flew to Paris, he bought a one-way ticket from Paris to Florida.
Two years later, he sold it and bought Articulance Consulting Group.
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He simply bought another top-flight team and merged the two.
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Two years ago, he sold the RV and bought a home in scenic Port Townsend, Wash.
In 1939, along with two partners whose stakes were later bought out, he founded a construction business which eventually became one of the largest in Brazil.
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Krishna Rajeev, a 26-year-old business-management graduate, bought two water jugs and some bread and cookies that he planned to share with Zeus, his 3-year-old Husky dog.
He got rid of Cemex's stake in a petrochemical company and bought two big Mexican cement operations in 1987 and 1989.
Luis was a sensitive guy (he never hit her), and cultured (he was, I believe, one of the two million Spaniards who bought the complete works of Mozart in installments), and patient, too (he listened, he listened to her every night and on the weekends).
He sold a stake in a petrochemical company, and in 1987 and 1989 bought two big Mexican cement operations.
In 1883, he spent a fortnight in Little Missouri in Dakota, where he bagged a bison and bought a stake in the Maltese Cross, the first of his two cattle ranches.
Perkins and his son, Robert, stumbled upon the idea of buying busted homes when a friend showed them two residences in a town in northern San Diego County that he'd bought from banks, fixed up and rented out.
"With independents being bought out, these two have the credentials that buyers are looking for, " he says.
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