Making someone believe you have something they really really want, making them offer strange and disturbing things to get it, and having a good laugh at their expense.
"What would you do to get my beta account-key, the one I don't really want actually?"
"I'd suck you"
"Hmm, something better.Would you mind letting some guypull all your teeth?"
"No, not at all, please fetch him right away"
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.