Earlier today a musician who was fed up with his life was barred from selling his soul on eBay to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n
Dante Knoxx, 24, offered the “used” item for a starting bid of \u00c2\u00a325,000.50 or a buy it now price of \u00c2\u00a3700,000 on the internet auction site eBay.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Knoxx, eBay pulled the listing earlier today with only about two hours to go and no bids because it breached one of their policies.<\/p>\n
“You cannot sell anything that is not physical,” said Mr Knoxx. “That includes ghosts, souls and spirits which is funny.<\/p>\n
“I have been refunded but I had 200 people watching it, I’m really disappointed by that. “I had lots of emails asking if I was serious and religious groups telling me I couldn’t do that, others wanted to talk about my soul.<\/p>\n
“I had a lot of interest but no actual bidders which is a real shame.” The Arts Institute graduate decided to try to sell his soul after a lack of creative jobs in his home town of Bournemouth, Dorset.<\/p>\n
“I’m a highly creative person, but creativity is not without its drawbacks,” he said in the listing.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately where I live there are hardly any jobs to keep a creative person like myself employed in anything other than boring, mundane office jobs.”<\/p>\n
Mr Knoxx was planning to use the money to get his experimental music group, Paradigm, which he created with his friend Zakk Altair, up and running.<\/p>\n
He quit his “shoddy job” as a laptop repair technician and said: “I leave it to you, the denizens of Earth, to purchase my actual soul and in return allow me to acquire some tasty capital.”<\/p>\n
The auction included a legal contract entitling the new soul’s owner to a percentage of Mr Knoxx’s income for the rest of his life, with a guaranteed minimum of \u00c2\u00a31,000 per year.<\/p>\n
Another clause entitled the owner to 10% of any intellectual works of Paradigm.<\/p>\n
He also pledged to write a full account of the soul’s life within three years and the owner of his soul would also be entitled to 10% of his estate in his will.<\/p>\n
Other clauses in the contract included sending the owner an annual report of his soul, and a birthday card on Mr Knoxx’s birthday, as well as a promise to plant three trees a year.<\/p>\n
A final clause also stated Mr Knoxx could buy back his soul for \u00c2\u00a3100,000,000.<\/p>\n