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Modern Faust?
« on: July 02, 2008, 05:34:03 PM »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_fe_st/odd_soul_auction

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand man has put his soul up for auction to the highest bidder, noting that it is "a merry old soul" rather than a "funk soul brother" but that he would "would like to think there is a bit of funk in there somewhere."

Walter Scott, 24, put his soul up for sale on New Zealand Internet auction site TradeMe, and so far has received more than 100 expressions of interest.

Bids in the auction, which was to close Thursday, had reached $189 late Wednesday.

Scott said he had been thinking about selling his soul for ages.

"I can't see it, touch it or feel it, but I can sell it, so I'm going to palm it off to the highest bidder," he said.

It was in "pretty good nick" except for a rough patch six years ago when he reached the legal drinking age, he said.

Advice from a lawyer was that the winning bidder would not be entitled to anything but Scott's soul and would not be able to own or control him in any way, he said.

The successful bidder will receive a framed deed of "soul ownership," Scott said.

TradeMe business manager Michael O'Donnell said the auction complied with the site's rules because a physical object  the deed of ownership  would change hands.

"I think he has entered into the spirit of the (online) community (and) he's also responded to our request to have a physical thing for sale and he's put together a nice looking deed for ownership," O'Donnell said.

"He's answered the questions in a straightforward manner and with humor and personally. I think it's unlikely that anyone's going to be misled by that auction," he told the Stuff Web site.

In 2001, 20-year-old U.S. university student Adam Burtle tried unsuccessfully to sell his soul on auction Web site eBay.

Bidding had reached $400 before the auction was pulled from the site, with the company ruling something tangible needed to swap hands.

Last month an Australian man sold his entire life including his house and a trial at his job after the break up of his five-year marriage for $383,200.

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TradeMe Site: http://www.trademe.co.nz

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Re: Modern Faust?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2008, 05:53:18 PM »
strange but funny
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Re: Modern Faust?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2008, 06:00:55 PM »
Hahaha hilarious.  The sale itself isn't that funny, but his description is. 

If I had an extra 200 lying around, I'd buy it.  Just so if I'm wrong about the whole afterlife thing I can work out a deal with the devil where Mr. Scott's soul works off my Hell sentence whilst I haunt attractive women.

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Re: Modern Faust?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2008, 06:10:44 PM »
Hahaha hilarious.  The sale itself isn't that funny, but his description is. 

If I had an extra 200 lying around, I'd buy it.  Just so if I'm wrong about the whole afterlife thing I can work out a deal with the devil where Mr. Scott's soul works off my Hell sentence whilst I haunt attractive women.

Dude, thats just funny.

So, while you avoid doing the breast stroke forever in a sea of fire, but can't enter heaven because you aint part of that club, you still gare-un-teee something in the middle thats tolerable.

I'm gonna go check craigslist for secondhand souls now. figure I ought to have more than a couple laying around just incase Dante' was more right than he knew...

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Re: Modern Faust?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2008, 07:48:46 PM »
I'm sure you can get one at a bargain from a local meth addict.  Those folks will sell anything.
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