Deliberately offering to buy an item for far less than it's worth to take advantage of some poor desperate, out-of-work, soon-to-be-homeless sucker's bad luck. The item will then be resold to finance this person's worthless lifestyle.
"C'mon, I aint loballin'. That old Corvette needs new tires & stuff, so I'll give you a generous $1200."
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.