To think this was just a joke with a bad outcome?

[TheLadyEvenstar]

ebay sale

stupid

I would say so.... although I have been tempted to sell the husband at times....

squeaky, how muh do you think he'd bring?

No - it happens.

We had a genuine case of a couple trying to sell their kid on eBay locally.

IIRC it triggered a child protection visit (previously unknown to SS) where loads of issues were uncovered - they had also tried to pass it off as a joke.

There was also a lot of work done to identify who had bid although it was taken down quite quickly.

I actually wrote a mock advert to put my mother up for sale once got a few chuckles from my colleagues

Lenak - wow really?

DCMP - I can imagine it did raise a few giggles.

what category would you list a child on?

i do like that website, should you photoshop your baby?

Clearly a joke that got out of hand.

lawn, have not read that article yet!

blimey, am shocked at the bedales sandpit and whisky from waitrose story

I dont usually laugh at spelling because I am rubbish but 'distinquish' made me

I would have just said 'cant tell the difference'.

TLE - Yes, really.

Also, according to the police at the time, it happens more than you'd think - it's just that it gets taken down really quickly before the press find out about it.

I put a small ad up for someone to date a lovely guy at Uni (the man was my friend but inexplicably single and I thought he should have an 'other half) on the uni internet for a joke.

I got a serious knuckle rapping from the University.

But I ended up marrying him (our 8th anniversary this weekend)

I once took BabyDragon to the baby clinic to get her weighed purely so I could calculate the postage cost :o

Obviously I didn't tell the HV this.

hahaha

soup My laptop is now covered in pepsi max I laughed so hard at that.

The end of term bad mood my DS is in atm I could be tempted to put him up for sale. I think he'd get returned as 'faulty' though.

Man, what is this world coming to ? we can't do anything anymore - smoke inside, drink, sell our kids on ebay . . .

(joke!)

Has to be a joke, this is my favourite 'threat' when my two are being toe rags.

I've never attempted to sell him but I have threatened to put postage on his bottom and post him to grandma in the States!

I would defo love to have the guts to put husband up for sale but no one would buy him and it'd cost me more for placing the ad so I might just push him down the stairs, Much cheaper in the long run

My mother used to tell me that she would never sell me, but there were times when she would quite happily give me away...

Good lord... I actually offered her free for postage on Mumsnet. The postage costs were accurate at the time!

Soup thats the second time you have made me spit coffee on my laptop!!!!