The father had bought Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for Nintendo Wii, which cost him $90, after scouring every store, to find it as a Christmas present for his son.
"He was relieved", according to what he wrote on eBay when selling the item, "that he had found 'the Holy Grail' of presents in time". However, when the man came home on Saturday, a bit early, he found his son smoking pot with two friends.
The man, a school teacher, said he sold the game to punish his son, and stop him from smoking. The game was sold on eBay for $10,420, over one-hundred times the original selling price of the game.
The boy, however, will not go without a present, as the man considered purchasing a Nintendo Wii game such as Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing with the Stars.
According to the The Daily Telegraph, the purchaser was an Australian father.