In a case of I just want to get rid of you. Instead of forcing a grandparent into a home, a 10 year old girl thought she might as well make some money off her…. until eBay stopped her.
Internet auction site eBay stopped a 10-year-old girl’s attempt to auction off her “moaning” granny online.
Zoe Pemberton from southern England put her 61-year-old grandmother up for sale on the auction website with no reserve price, describing her as “rare and annoying and moaning a lot.”
But she also said pensioner Marian Goodall was “very cuddly,” loved word searches and enjoyed drinking tea.
More than 20 bids were received for Goodall, but she has since been withdrawn from the site, eBay said.
“While no doubt Mrs. Goodall would have fetched a princely sum, eBay does not allow the listing of any human being on the site,” an eBay spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
“Mind you, we were impressed to see a total of 27 bids for the lady in question!”
[via Reuters]
I’d be curious on how many where actually real bids and how many where fake. Also it doesn’t explain why the 10 year had done it. Was the grandmother lonely and this was her idea to get her company? Was she mad at the grandmother and figured to get rid of her? Also the child was 10 years old, and could put together an auction? People pay big bucks for other people to do it, since they can’t figure it out themselves.
A funny situation and considering all the unusual things you find on eBay one of the more MORE unusual ones.
Tags: auction, eBay, England, Family, Grandma, Lonely, Slave
