Guy auctions off life, selling price disappoints

Man put everything he owned as well as introductions to his friends on eBay

PERTH, Australia - A man who auctioned his life — his house, his car, his job, even his friends — on eBay said Monday he is disappointed with the selling price.

Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, put everything he owned as well as introductions to his friends on the online auction site after a painful breakup with his wife prompted him to want a fresh start.

Bidding closed Sunday and reached $382,712 — an amount Usher said his house in the western city of Perth was worth on its own.

"I guess I'm a little bit disappointed at the final price, I'd hoped it to be a little higher than that," Usher told Nine Network television on Monday. "But I am committed to selling and moving on and making a fresh start."

He declined to reveal the buyer's identity, or what his next step would be.

Usher said he had hoped to get at least $480,000 for his life — his house and all its contents, car and a motorcycle, a jet ski, skydiving gear, an introduction to friends and a trial period in his sales job — but that the final result was enough for him to make a new start in life.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25461646?GT1=43001

:D

:rofl:

"Hey this smells like ass. Here smell it!"

Um no thanks.

and her hand in marriage to the highest bidder on e-bay. People are nuts.

she lives in Florida :)

my so called life.

(paraphrased from an article I'd read in 'Fortune' magazine a few months ago...)

Over 6 billion available.