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Man Lists ‘Used' Girlfriend For Sale On eBay, is Shocked When Bids Reach $119G
By Michelle Gant | Fox News
Well, that back- fired.
A man who listed his girlfriend for sale on eBay as a prank was shocked when the bids reached over $119,000 within 24 hours.
Dale Leeks, who lives in London, “wanted to have a laugh” so he thought it would be funny to list his girlfriend of one year, Kelly Greaves, on the auction site, CTV News reports.
He described her
condition as “for parts or not work- ing” and wrote that she “starts OK but after that there’s a constant whining noise that I can’t seem to stop. Bodywork is fairly tidy but close up shows signs of wear. No serious damage but you
can see that she’s been used.
“Please [bear] in mind when bid- ding she’s 37 years old. Basically first thing in the morn- ing she can be very tempera- mental, once warmed up the whining noise
lessens but I would be lying if I said it goes away completely. The rear end leaks a bit but nothing that can’t be plugged.
“Any offers con- sidered...would be interested in a part exchange with a younger model. Sold as seen, no returns.”
When Leeks showed the list- ing to Greaves, she went along with the prank, thinking no
one would see it. But when the couple went to dinner that night, Leeks’ cell phone started “going crazy” with hun- dreds of bids and crude messages from interested parties around the world.
“I thought, ‘Oh no, what have I done?” Leeks told CTV News.
The ad was removed by eBay after 24 hours for violating the web- site’s policy against selling human body parts or remains, but not before being seen 81,000 times.
While Leeks admits he would- n’t have actually sold his girlfriend, when the bids started increas- ing, he joked, “I would have been quite sad to see [her] go, but it wouldn’t have been so sad ‘cause I would have been crying in my Ferrari or my Lamborghini.”
For her part, Greaves said maybe it would’ve worked out because “if the new owner had that kind of money, then she was going to have a better quality of life.”
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