A man has reportedly put up his wife
for sale on online auction platform, eBay.
Simon O’Kane, from
Yorkshire, England posted a picture of his wife Leandra, 27, on
eBay.
In mock
irritation with his wife’s “unsympathetic attitude”, he put her up
for sale on eBay in an ad for used cars.
Within hours,
bids were said to have hit nearly £66,000 and his wife declared that she wanted
to kill him.
It all
started last Wednesday evening when 33-year-old Simon returned home and said he
was not feeling too well.
His wife, a
mother of two, apparently wasn’t much concerned. According to Simon,
She said he was ”burning the candle at both ends” and was ”basically just
whining” at him, and so he thought to himself that he was going to put
her up for sale.
The telecom
engineer went on to post a picture of Leandra on the auction site alongside an
advertisement titled “used wife”, detailing his reasons for selling her and the
pros and cons of the “purchase”.
The post read: “For sale one wife. Not new has been used but
still got some good miles left in her. Reason for selling… I’ve had my fill and
feel like there has to be someone me (oh dear God please let there be)”.
He even
highlighted her “decent bodywork and skills in the kitchen”.
“Good points:
Body work and paint work still in decent shape and has some skills in the
kitchen,” he wrote.
“Bad points:
Often makes this noise that cannot be silenced unless you order brand new shiny
parts of metal,” he added.
“Sometimes them skills in the kitchen result in
you ending up in hospital. All in all not a bad model for the year, I’m sure
some lucky guy will get lots of use. Offers welcome, may consider a part
exchange for a younger model,” he wrote.
He was
stunned when the bids hit £65,880 within two days and his wife said she “wanted
to kill him” when she discovered what he did the next day.
“I was absolutely fuming – I wanted to kill
him. Everyone at work saw it and were laughing their heads off. Not only did he
put me up for sale but he used such a bad photo,” Leandra, a beauty
therapist, said. “If eBay hadn’t taken the listing down, who
knows how much I could have fetched.”
Simon said
they did get a few “pervy” messages from potential buyers asking to see more
photos, but said most of the responses were funny.
“I was disappointed the listing was taken down,
mainly because I wanted to see how high it would go, but it was for a laugh so
I wasn’t actually gutted,” he added.
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