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Auction for Man's 'Life' Starts Sunday

by Tim Stevens on June 21, 2008 at 05:07 PM



Sick of your tired, boring life? Want a new one? Well, you're in luck, because as it turns out, there's a burgeoning market for the trading of lives. No, we're not talking about underground slave labor. We're talking about people selling their possessions, friends, and even jobs online -- that's right, their whole lives. The latest 'life,' that of Ian Usher's, is going up for auction on eBay in tomorrow.

Ian, whom we first reported on when he started planning this auction earlier this year, is an Australian twenty something whose life will hit eBay on June 22. Anyone, whether Aussie or not, can bid on everything he has to offer -- though it's a little unclear how the whole job transfer thing will work. One thing we do know is that he's not the first, and not even the first Australian, to sell his life. Fellow countryman Nicael Holt beat him to the punch last year. Ian seems to be getting a lot more publicity than Nicael did, though, showing that being the first isn't necessarily always a good thing. [Source: Alife4sale.com, via Reuters]

Tags: auctions, ebay, weird

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