Man Auctioning His Life On Ebay

[ladybug193]

Have you ever just wanted to completely start over? This guy has an interesting plan!

[QUOTE]

Ian Usher, 44, announced in March he was auctioning his life on eBay with the package including his three-bedroom house in Perth, Western Australia, a trial for his job at a rug store, his car, motorbike, clothes and even friends.

His decision to sell his life followed the break-up of his five-year marriage and 12-year relationship with Laura with whom he had built the house.[/QUOTE]
Full Story Here
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25329759/[/url]

Here Is His Blog Where He Explains Everything
[url]http://www.alife4sale.com/[/url]

And Of Course, The Story Wouldn't Be Complete Without The Actual Ebay Auction....Ends on Sunday (Currently The Bid Is Up To $378,678.18 Canadian)
[url]http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250255442325[/url]

What a way to start with a clean slate lol.

[AMDr]

[QUOTE=ladybug193;7014329]Have you ever just wanted to completely start over? This guy has an interesting plan!


Full Story Here
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25329759/[/url]

Here Is His Blog Where He Explains Everything
[url]http://www.alife4sale.com/[/url]

And Of Course, The Story Wouldn't Be Complete Without The Actual Ebay Auction....Ends on Sunday (Currently The Bid Is Up To $378,678.18 Canadian)
[url]http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250255442325[/url]

What a way to start with a clean slate lol.[/QUOTE]

63 bids as of now... wow, and here I thought it was mostly RFDr's who needed to "get a life"! :cheesygri

[7Stryder7]

wow;
hard to imagine anyone would do that...

[burnt_toast]

[QUOTE=ladybug193;7014329]Have you ever just wanted to completely start over? This guy has an interesting plan!


Full Story Here
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25329759/[/url]

Here Is His Blog Where He Explains Everything
[url]http://www.alife4sale.com/[/url]

And Of Course, The Story Wouldn't Be Complete Without The Actual Ebay Auction....Ends on Sunday (Currently The Bid Is Up To [B]$378,678.18 Canadian[/B])
[url]http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250255442325[/url]

What a way to start with a clean slate lol.[/QUOTE]

i think he'll get more if he parts them out... i'll bid on the motorcycle if he does...

[sw1ft]

[url]http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_24120.aspx[/url]

[quote]Man Selling Life On eBay Off To Amazing Start
Tuesday June 24, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff

How much would your life be worth if you tried to put it into dollars and cents? That's the question Ian Usher is attempting to answer. And while he doesn't quite have a figure yet, he knows it's not $2 million.

Last week, we told you about the odd method the 44-year-old Australian resident is using to try and start a brand new life to get over a break-up with his longtime girlfriend. He's taken to eBay to sell off his entire existence - including his home, his job and even his pals - to the highest bidder.

He plans to pocket the money, head to the airport carrying only his wallet, his passport and his name, and fly off to an as yet unknown destination to start over, while someone else quite literally steps into his shoes.

The auction began on Sunday and it was immediately clear not everyone was taking his quest seriously. Someone put up a bid of Cdn$2.1 million, which even the "owner" acknowledges is a ridiculous and obviously fake amount, and it was immediately discounted.

Other reasonable offers were being taken a lot more seriously. "[B]Apologies to all, but I guess there are a lot of bored idiots out there[/B]," Usher noted on his website. "Anyway after a long day on the computer, I have decided to pull all bids back as far as the first registered bidder, and the price is back to A$155,000 (about Cdn$150,000) as I write this ... we are back in the land of common sense and reality, so it's over to you."

The last check indicated the amount had topped Cdn$300,000 and there's still a few days left. Usher intends to award his existence and all his worldly goods on June 29th, after which his old life ends and an uncertain one begins. We'll bring you the results next week.

See video of what's being offered here

See the eBay page with the auction here

He hopes to make enough to finance a new start, while giving someone else a similar beginning - along with a video game system, parachute equipment, a fully furnished house, a car and a spa. But we may not know who takes over the house of Usher for some time. All the bidders have to be verified and because there's a property transaction involved, there are specific local rules that must be followed.

"The real estate category on eBay is a non-binding section because of the real estate laws in Australia," explains eBay spokesperson Sian Kennedy. "You need a special license to sell real estate."

Usher isn't the first person to put your money where his life is on the Internet. A 24-year-old Australian student offered his existence to the world last year as a protest of consumerism.

An American sold everything he owned on eBay and then went to visit every single person who bought something of his. He turned it into a book - although there's no word if it sold, too.

And while web giant eBay has a high tolerance for the unusual, there are some places it won't go. A 20-year-old university student needed money for school in 2001, so he offered to sell his soul to the highest bidder. He made it to $400, before the site called the ridiculous fundraiser off.
[/quote]:cheesygri

[molala]

Shipping not available...for local pick up only!...too bad for us RFDers! Can't take advantage of this deal! :cry:

[heymikey]

[QUOTE]His decision to sell his life followed the break-up of his five-year marriage and 12-year relationship with Laura with whom he had built the house.[/QUOTE]
What a drama queen...

[7jai]

damn, his house is stacked with ammendities :)

if i had the money, i wouldn't mind buying it and using it as an escape from the crazy world. can treat it like a cottage :)

[heymikey]

[QUOTE=7jai;7014586]damn, his house is stacked with ammendities :)

if i had the money, i wouldn't mind buying it and using it as an escape from the crazy world. can treat it like a cottage :)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, a cottage where it takes you 2 days to fly into.

[ZenOps]

Hmm... I don't think this is entirely legal.

I mean really - If someone in Canada or the US put up their livelihood for sale for a firesale price, and some guy from Iraq or Afghanistan bought it - they would still need all the appropriate paperwork beforehand.

And there are not many people with the ability to change countries that easily.

Austrailia has very strict rules about who can be let into the country. They did afterall have a whites only policy right up until 1973

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy[/url]

You could not pay me enough to move to Austrailia. You could probably pay me to invade Austrailia however - Maybe Obama will get around to it...

Also: This guy better be sure he has a country to go to before he sells too. He may end up having to "move down the street".

[M@rk]

[QUOTE=ZenOps;7014802]Hmm... I don't think this is entirely legal.

I mean really - If someone in Canada or the US put up their livelihood for sale for a firesale price, and some guy from Iraq or Afghanistan bought it - they would still need all the appropriate paperwork beforehand.

And there are not many people with the ability to change countries that easily.

Austrailia has very strict rules about who can be let into the country. They did afterall have a whites only policy right up until 1973

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy[/url]

You could not pay me enough to move to Austrailia. You could probably pay me to invade Austrailia however - Maybe Obama will get around to it...

Also: This guy better be sure he has a country to go to before he sells too. He may end up having to "move down the street".[/QUOTE]

The sale is just hype. All he's doing is selling his home and car, jetski, and motorcycle in one package, with a bit of clever marketing.

As with other real estate listings, it's the buyer's responsibility to make sure he already has the visa/citizenship and paperwork necessary to buy the house.

[ZenOps]

Yeah, I wonder if he has a full residency Visa for another country.

Most people with post-secondary and a few years of professional work can sometimes get a 2-3 year work Visa, but permanent residency is usually a problem.

Makes me think of Boy George - I mean sure the guy is a multimillionaire UK rockstar - but he can't even get a work Visa pass to the US nowadays, lol. I'm pretty sure your Austrailians average work skills are not at the top of the list for work visas nevermind permanent ones.

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7470608.stm[/url]

[robertalan]

[QUOTE=ZenOps;7015495]I'm pretty sure your Austrailians average work skills are not at the top of the list for work visas nevermind permanent ones.[/QUOTE]

Such a backward country, eh?

[TapemanPL]

what confuses me is how he has 312 feedback, did he just buy 312 1 cent ebooks to boost his feedback or something?

[TapemanPL]

[QUOTE=jcoltage;7015806]what confuses me is how he can sell his life / life style and not include his wife... a woman the property of the man down under? (oh the left fem. movement is coming after me on that one/)[/QUOTE]

he's divorced...