Recently I told you about a guy in Australie who sold his whole "life" on Ebay. He sold his house, cars, all belongings and so on, in hope to start all over. For sure, it was a crazy idea.

Even crazier, some people are now selling themselves on the web. Internet is changing the nature of mankind, human beings now see themselves as goods and don't hesitate to communicate about it and even undertake their own selling.

Two examples that you need to think about :

1) A 26-year-old girl named Chen Xiao from Beijing is selling her time on the internet

On her website, this young Chinese girl is trading her time against money. She would do anything (unless it's illegal, immoral, violent or pornographic) to please customers.

She usually charges 3$ an hour and already made around 500 $ net income with more than 100 clients. She took pictures of every assignment she had. Some were quite weird : a mother buyer wanted Chen Xiao to call in on her young daughter disguised as a panda, and encourage her to study harder.

She has had quite a lot of success since she opened up this service, so that she is now compelled to sell her time on auction.

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2) A young bachelor in France named Yannick Miel sold himself on ebay

Yannick, a 23-year-old bachelor in Economics Intelligence was desperately looking for a job. He had the idea of selling himself on ebay in order to find a decent job. He wrote down an humorous ad on the famous auction website and managed to had a few buyers, but yet no real job indeed. He mostly had a good press coverage.

Then, capitalizing on the success he had on the French media, he decided to go hand out some resumes at a place called La Defense, a famous business center in Paris.

He was finally bought by Martin Hirsch, a member of the French government, for quite a good bargain.

These are recent examples but not the firsts of people willing to sell themselves.

Don't you remember those :

A British lord already put's himself for sale

A Cambridge university student also did the same in 2007.

Or that guy who wanted to sell his body in year 2000 ?

So what's new under the sun ? Nothing much. People are mad and are selling themselves on the web. Assuming their status of modern happy slaves, and getting publicity or ego satisfaction through it.

I wonder when we will be able to buy a complete family, a whole group of friends or an entire village on the net ? That would be great, if you have some cash, to own that sort of stuff. That's is surely more trendy than a Hummer or a diamond ring.

I wonder if I should, desperate freelancer for ever, sell myself for the purposes of investigation. I am just afraid not to get any buyer.