With tax season upon us, particularly for these of us who’re freelancers (and thus bled like pigs by Uncle Sam), it isn’t a financially enjoyable time. In the event you haven’t been saving up diligently over the course of the yr, since you’re not an enormous narc, you may want some money quick. Time for a fast scan of your house for worthwhile stuff you haven’t utilized in years that may discover a second life… some place else, for cash. Digital keyboard from once you thought you have been going to “train your self piano”? See ya, feeble try to higher myself, you’re value $400!
In fact, given the husk of an financial system bequeathed to our technology, there’s an opportunity that you just won’t have quite a lot of possessions anybody would need, interval. Probably the most worthwhile factor you personal could be the PS5 you’re nonetheless paying off on Klarna. By which case, you may assume the answer is to go full Faust mode, and try and promote your soul. Sadly, if that’s your alternative, you’re going to have to move right down to your native crossroads with a bag filled with cat bones, as a result of eBay has already coated — and banned — this particular kind of metaphysical parlay.
Individuals have tried it numerous occasions, and eBay has taken down the listings with out fail. In a hat-tip-worthy little bit of authorized maneuvering, they ban it as a result of they don’t enable the sale of something that isn’t both a bodily (or digital) merchandise or a service. Then, they went one additional, I assume getting out forward of anyone who claimed to have shoved their soul right into a jar like leftover bolognese, clarifying that if the soul did exist bodily, it could violate their rule towards promoting human components and stays — a rule that they’ve already needed to set up due to individuals being freaks.
Through Enterprise Insider, right here’s eBay’s official assertion: “eBay doesn’t enable the auctioning of human souls for the next causes: If the soul doesn’t exist, eBay couldn’t enable the auctioning of the soul as a result of there can be nothing to promote. Nevertheless, if the soul does exist then, in accordance with eBay’s coverage on human components and stays, we might not enable the auctioning of human souls.”
Aw, nuts! Again to googling “Lyft driver wage 12 hours day 2 months,” I suppose. Although, actually, if you’re going to promote your soul, I’m undecided eBay is the place you’re going to get essentially the most worth. As a substitute, dial up the person downstairs, and you may be a rock star for the remainder of your life, so long as you’re keen to be chased down and eaten by hellhounds when the contract pings. Which it to say: Promoting to eBay is like taking a Rolex to Goodwill.
