ANOTHER UNBELIEVABLE EBAY STORY
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man who put his life up for auction on eBay found it wasn't worth quite as much as he thought when he settled for around A$100,000 less than his target price.
Ian Usher, 44, held the seven-day auction of all his belongings, including his three-bedroom home in the west Australian city of Perth and a trial for his job at a rug store, after the break-up of his five-year marriage.
Bids had reached as high as A$2.2 million, only for Usher to discover there had been a glitch on eBay's system which allowed the participation of non-registered bidders who had put in bogus offers.
In the end, the winning bidder agreed to pay A$399,300 ($380,286) for all of Usher's worldly goods, which also include his friends, a motorcycle and a jetski. According to the eBay website, the mystery buyer, whose user name is "mslmcc," is in Australia and has a 100 percent feedback score.
Usher, who gave regular updates on the auction on his Web site www.alife4sale.com, now plans to travel in search of a new life.
He's not the first person to put his life on the block.
American John Freyer started All My Life For Sale (www.allmylifeforsale.com) in 2001 and sold everything he owned on eBay, later visiting the people who bought his things.
Adam Burtle, a 20-year-old U.S. university student, offered his soul for sale on eBay in 2001, with bidding hitting $400 before eBay called it off, saying there had to be something tangible to sell. Burtle later admitted he was a bored geek.
(Reporting by James Thornhill; Editing by David Fogarty)
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YOU DONT KNOW ME, DONT EVEN TRY !!!
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if i sold my life they'd simply gain a closet full of skeletons.
Speaking of ebay...they were fined 40 million Euros for selling fake Louis Vuitton and other designer gear. Oh who cares? They only made about 40 BILLION Euros last year.
i think its quite a brilliant idea. if all you want is to start over in life, instead of forsaking everything, sell it on ebay! good for him and i hope he finds great success in his search for a new beginning.
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course" -Khalil Gibran
These guys are crazy.....
after reading this i would say a big YES.
they for sure dont know what they do to themselfs and their families and friends.