If you were to put a peso figure on “your entire life” what would it be?
Watch this heartbroken Australian who decided to auction his entire life on eBay, which includes his three-bedroom house, a 19-year old Mazda car, jet ski, motorcycle, parachuting gear and – get this – his lifestyle, an introduction to all his friends and a two-week try out for his job as rug salesman.
Click here to see the video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia
He sold everything for almost 192,000 pounds ($383,121 and P17.2 million).
Good enough for your life?
Welcome to
Money Smarts, where people can talk freely about personal finance, business, financial independence, the economy and my personal favorite, giving the rat race a kick on the butt. INQUIRER.net business has the floor, but you can freely ask questions and take the mic.
Disclaimer: Readers are solely responsible for their investment decisions; conduct proper due diligence and obtain professional advice. Money Smarts will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a reader's reliance on information obtained from this blog. Money Smarts receives no compensation of any kind from any company or individual mentioned.
Search
Archives
- November 2009 (2)
- October 2009 (1)
- September 2009 (4)
- August 2009 (5)
- July 2009 (2)
- June 2009 (4)
- May 2009 (1)
- April 2009 (5)
- March 2009 (15)
- February 2009 (19)
- January 2009 (19)
- December 2008 (23)
- November 2008 (19)
- October 2008 (24)
- September 2008 (23)
- August 2008 (13)
- July 2008 (21)
- June 2008 (16)
- May 2008 (15)
- April 2008 (23)
- March 2008 (16)
- February 2008 (26)
- January 2008 (15)
- December 2007 (12)
- November 2007 (20)
- October 2007 (23)
- September 2007 (20)
- August 2007 (27)
- July 2007 (28)
- June 2007 (15)
- May 2007 (22)
- April 2007 (21)
- March 2007 (15)
Categories
- alternative investments (2)
- banking (36)
- blog manners (3)
- blogging (3)
- bonds (10)
- books (2)
- budgeting (45)
- buying tips (23)
- career (12)
- charity (4)
- consumer issues (6)
- corporate governance (2)
- credit cards (32)
- customer service (1)
- debt (16)
- economy (38)
- education (3)
- Educational plan (1)
- emergency planning (3)
- entrepreneurship (8)
- estate planning (4)
- family finance (99)
- Financial Planning (84)
- food (4)
- forex (15)
- Frugality Week (23)
- Gifts (3)
- Government (2)
- Guest Posts (3)
- Holidays (12)
- insurance (22)
- Investing (143)
- kids and money (20)
- Lifestyle (5)
- Marriage (3)
- memorial plans (1)
- men and finance (1)
- Millionaires (75)
- Money Makeover (15)
- Money Myth Busters (23)
- MoneySense (4)
- Mutual Funds (8)
- network marketing (1)
- OFW (34)
- Plain Vanilla/CFA (3)
- poverty (6)
- Pre-Need (12)
- Pre-need industry (1)
- Quiz (1)
- Quotes (12)
- real estate (5)
- remittance (1)
- retirement (19)
- Saving money (67)
- scams (20)
- shopping (24)
- Smart Habits (8)
- So What Chocnut? (67)
- spending habits (57)
- SSS/GSIS (2)
- stock market (25)
- subprime (15)
- taxes (5)
- uitfs (1)
- Uncategorized (4)
- vacations (5)
- wala lang (6)
- weddings (1)
- weekly roundup (2)
- who's who in personal finance (1)
- women and finance (11)
- Word of the Week (4)
- Workplace (3)
INQUIRER Blogs
Advertisements
Recent Posts
4 Feedbacks on "How much is ‘your entire life?’"
Fitz
Yup, I read about him a few days ago. Hats off to him for the courage and strength to start his life all over.
Furthermore, I believe that in a marketing sense, he had shared with us one of the most effective ways to reach out to our customers. And that is to personalize our campaigns and give more than just face value to our products.
If he had simply posted everything he had on eBay, I doubt it if he will have the same advertising reach. But because he wrapped everything with a heartbreaking story, his items now has more value to his audience.
Now that’s true money smarts.
I wish him all the best in his new beginning.
Salve
@Fitz, oo nga ano? Good marketing strategy indeed. Unique ang spin. He must have learned that from selling rugs hehe.
Ria
Wow somebody actually bought him off? I heard he got some marriage proposals too
Salve
Ria, haha, really? People are getting loopier by the minute. Marriage proposals!
Please Leave a Comment!