Man Selling His Life On eBay

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."

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Here's your chance guys

[morgan_greywolf]

Here's your chance to finally get a life! Gentlemen, place your bids!

Aw man

[Tabernaque86]

I wanted to sell my life too, but then I remembered I didn't have one. :(

Re:Well, two things come to mind

[Tx]

Is his identity for sale? Otherwise all he is selling is a bunch of stuff. Not "His Life". It would be more interesting if you could actually buy his identity and completely assume his life. Of course, you couldn't do that completely. His friends probably aren't going to buy into it. And also, what of the government?

If you RTFA you'll see that the sale includes introductions to his friends, and a trial in his job, which is supported by his employer. In addition to all the physical stuff. If a purchaser played it right, he could indeed have the guy's house, friends, job, and possesions. This is about as much as he could reasonably and legally do, and IMHO just barely about enough to justify his description that he's selling his "life".

Re:Presumably...

[pacroon]

...his debts are included? A 90% mortgage would make the house less attractive. From his own site: 1). Potential buyers of this package does not need to concern themselves with any mortgage or debt that I have on the property. In Western Australia transfer of property is done through a Settlement Agent, who pays off any mortgage I have outstanding with my bank before releasing the balance of the proceeds of the sale to me, The buyer is responsible for arranging their own finance, and is in no way responsible for my loans or debts. There is no outstanding finance at all on any of the vehicles, or anything else in the house.

My first post in a long time.

[Grey Ninja]

Honestly, this is the most fantastic Slashdot story that I've seen in a really long time. Unusual, sure. But I think that this is the perfect place to post this.

I've always dreamed of doing something like this. Starting over, giving everything up. And I'm right positive that I'm not the only one on Slashdot to have those dreams.

This guy has balls of steel. And I wish him the best.

Re:My first post in a long time.

[value_added]

This guy is a coward who isn't capable of dealing with his problems in a mature manner and so he's concocted this weird scheme to try and finance him running away from his problems.

This is obviously from someone who's not suffered any tragedy in his entire life but feels compelled to offer glib judgment on the sorrows of others. The least you could do is invoke something less cliched than a Readers Digest version of some Dr. Phil episode your mom forced you to watch.

Here's a tip: In the worst of times, even the best of us behave badly. It's to be expected. It's normal. It's what makes us human. If you get that much, ask yourself how very ordinary is your own life and your relationships with others that you're unable to relate to someone who might be enduring really bad times?

Me, I'm laughing (like everyone else), but only because I "get it". Losing your job, developing a incurable disease, getting cheated out of money, having your car stolen, losing big time in Vegas, nothing comes close to the torment of what a woman can put you through.

Somewhere in hell Sam Kinnison is screaming "This ain't hell! I'll tell you what hell is!!!"

So the math is

[shitzu]

i have to pay 300K to get a house AND i have to work two weeks as a rug store sales assistant. What a sweet deal.

This is news?

[Joeyspecial]

People sell their WOW accounts all the time.

Re:Well, two things come to mind

[192939495969798999]

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.

Whoa!

[Alsee]

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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Can I buy the wife's car?

[GameboyRMH]

screeech vrooom! First screech and then vroom? Must be a really badass hybrid!

Re:Can I buy the wife's car?

[ichigo 2.0]

She forgot the handbrake on.

Re:Well, two things come to mind

[jamesh]

Maybe he's just planning on moving somewhere else.

Option #1
. Advertise and Sell House
. Advertise and Sell Car
. Advertise and Sell Jetski
. Advertise and Sell misc other crap, pack it in boxes, give it to charity, take it down to the dump, etc
. Make all of the above events line up with each other so he isn't left with no house or no car etc

Option #2
. Sell it all on eBay as a job lot
. Offer to introduce you to friends and cow-orkers to sweeten the deal (no obligation to actually like the person or employ them if they're a dick)
. Invent a bit of a sob story to go with it
. Profit!

Which one sounds easier? Selling stuff is a pain. Trying to make sure you get rid of your house, car, and other crap which costs money to move all at the same time is even more of a pain. The last thing you'd want is to sell the house and then not be able to find a buyer for your car and jet-ski. Or sell your car but then have to wait 6 months for your house to sell (and have to hire or buy another in the meantime)

Nothing to see here - move along.

Re:Well, two things come to mind

[tokul]

If a purchaser played it right, he could indeed have the guy's house, friends,

If they were guy's friends, then purchaser won't be their friend. He will be "sick guy from the internet that bought our friend's stuff"

Now for what is really cool...

[Gription]

We just slashdotted his life!
(Trying to figure out why I think it is so funny but it just cracks me up...)

Meh. He's selling his current living conditions. He'll continue to live; if he's happy, he's still "winning," just like any of us. I'm not losing just because someone has more stuff than me (see George Carlin on that). BTW- It will be hard to see George since this weekend...

Re:Now for what is really cool...

[socsoc]

How could a wife launch a distributed denial of service attack on his life? Did she contact all of his mistresses, slutty co-workers, and the gals at the club down the road to have them join in the attack?

Re:Well, two things come to mind

[SoupIsGoodFood_42]

I'm concerned that this was rated insightful, rather than funny.

Re:Well, two things come to mind

[7 digits]

> 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?")