Man Selling His Life On eBay 343
A number of readers have sent in the story of the guy in Perth, Australia who is selling his life on eBay. 100 days before the auction opened, he put up a site detailing all that was on offer: house, car, jet ski, friends, job, and so forth. (No wife.) The auction has five days to run and the bidding is up over $300K, supposedly from qualified bidders. The seller says: "Upon completion and settlement I will walk out of my home for the last time in just the clothes I am wearing, and carrying only my wallet and passport."
Here's your chance guys (Score:5, Funny)
Here's your chance to finally get a life! Gentlemen, place your bids!
Aw man (Score:5, Funny)
PSone? (Score:4, Funny)
Man, he could have at least thrown in a PS2...what a cheap bastard.
If I were selling my life (Score:4, Funny)
I'd probably wind up having to pay the auction winner to take it off my hands.
Re:There is no wife (Score:5, Funny)
So the math is (Score:5, Funny)
This is news? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here's your chance guys (Score:0, Funny)
Sadly, you will still be virgin tho.
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:5, Funny)
I can tell you why his wife left for free right now...
"hey honey, I decided to sell my life on ebay!"
slam pitpatpitpat screeech vrooom! and there she goes.
The value of life (Score:2, Funny)
I haven't bought any recently, but I used to get them three for a quarter.
I hear... (Score:4, Funny)
Whoa! (Score:5, Funny)
You can buy a house and a jet ski and all the other stuff anywhere, but friends? Whoa!
I can't wait to show them my complete Star Wars Action Figures collection!
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ooh! This is the plot of a movie, I know it! (Score:5, Funny)
We're going to find out that the Mafia has a hit out on him or he's supposed to be in an arranged marriage to a cannibal princess or something. The lovable everyman who buys this guy's life will now be in a madcap race to escape the consequences, probably falling in love with a girl-next-door Hollywood starlet in the process.
Why he is getting so much (Score:3, Funny)
Can I buy the wife's car? (Score:5, Funny)
Get a life...in Perth? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh come on people, the guy lives in PERTH. Surely nobody is bidding on that.
Now for what is really cool... (Score:5, Funny)
(Trying to figure out why I think it is so funny but it just cracks me up...)
Do your DD (Score:3, Funny)
You'd better fly over and check it out. Make sure his friends aren't all loud talkers with BO who like to "get nekkid" at parties.
His stuff mainly sucks. (Score:1, Funny)
PS1? Dude, come on....
If it was me... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I need more info. (Score:2, Funny)
Probably very difficult because his employer could pull the rug out from under him at any time...
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Now for what is really cool... (Score:5, Funny)
(Trying to figure out why I think it is so funny but it just cracks me up...)
It's kinda sad ... (Score:3, Funny)
that his boss and friends support the idea. I imagine him asking, "Is no-one going to say 'please don't go'?"
Re:My first post in a long time. (Score:4, Funny)
I am happy, but I feel encumbered.
Ahh, another case of life imitating nethack.
Perhaps you are stuck with cursed armor or a loadstone.
Or maybe you should "D" some of those items
and do a polypile later.
Re:Now for what is really cool... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can I buy the wife's car? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:5, Funny)
> Not too hard to guess what that might have been.
I wonder which would be more ironic:
1) If his ex-wife marry the guy that buy "his life", so she get back the whole lot ("Oh, that is soo sweet, I recovered my friends, my house and my jetski" )
2) If the guy his wife left with win the auction to buy "his life" ("Your taste in women was pretty good, what else do you have?")
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:4, Funny)
I was blindsided at about 11pm on a Wednesday evening by a shocking and awful discovery.
She was a Collingwood fan?
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:4, Funny)
They've also conditioned modern man to get 10-20 credit cards and a subprime ARM mortgage
You know what they say about ARM mortgages? too much risc!
Sorry.
yeah but it wasn't just an affair (Score:3, Funny)
Which is bad news for the person buying his life. Guess who's going to be your new best friend?!
Re:Well, two things come to mind (Score:3, Funny)
I prefer:
"He who dies pennyless has impeccable timing."
Re:Here's your chance guys (Score:3, Funny)
Here's your chance to finally get a life! Gentlemen, place your bids!
I rented a Life [wikipedia.org] one time. It was OK, if a bit on the small side. I'd say it's worth maybe $7000.