alifeforsale plagued by fake bidders
By Andrew Redfern @ 24th June 2008 12:18 pm
It is a fairly predictable, if regrettable, truth that anything as well publicised as alifeforsale.com was always going to attract it’s fair share of idiots. Sure enough Ian Usher (first featured on our news feed several months ago) is now trying to rebuild his attempt to rebuild his life after fakes bids caused the ebay auction to spiral to a particularly unrealistic 2 million Australian Dollars.
He told AFP “They are just idiots, absolute idiots, I think I was speaking to kids most of the time.”
He has now filtered out the fake bids and the auction is set back at 300,000 dollars.
Read the full report here on Yahoo! News
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