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CalifCarolyn
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Posted: Wed Aug 1st, 2007 02:07 pm |
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I found this in my e-mail this morning. It seems a student from my Daughter's University (Northeastern) was resourceful in how to get back from Europe. Wonder if someone has tried to get tuition paid this way..
The link to the full article is included at the end of the posting.
"The trip was characterized by last-minute transit plans, nights in train stations and credit card problems. During his three-day stay in Italy, middler undecided major Minney realized he had not saved enough money for a flight back across the Atlantic.
He then posted himself on eBay offering a weeks worth of labor for a flight home. Psychic, Darlene Anderson, who has no relation to Smith, was the lucky bidder.
"We were sitting on the balcony in Rome," he said in an interview from his cousin's home in England. "And that's when I posted myself on eBay.
Under the title "Help! I'm Stuck In Europe," Minney offered personal labor in exchange for a plane ticket back to America. In the listing, he wrote a brief summary of his journey and a list of possible services, like hedge trimming, story telling and washing cars, that he could supply.
Minney was surprised by the attention his posting received.
"Two hundred people had checked it in the first six hours. Two hours later, 1,500 people had viewed it," he said. "I couldn't believe this thing was taking off."
Darlene, 54, a resident of Quincy works as a psychic at Regina Russell's Tea Room, a family-owned business that provides services like tarot card reading, psychic phone services and tea leaf readings.
Darlene, who spent $935.01 on Minney, said she bought his ticket home because she could relate to his predicament."
[url=http://media.http://www.nu-news.com/media/storage/paper600/news/2007/08/01/News/Student.Sold.On.Ebay-2928704.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition]http://media.http://www.nu-news.com/media/storage/paper600/news/2007/08/01/News/Student.Sold.On.Ebay-2928704.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition[/url]
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