Man Puts Girlfriend For Sale On eBay, Bid Crosses $91,000

A man from Essex, United Kingdom, listed his girlfriend for sale on eBay, and was shocked when her value crossed over £70,200 (around $91,600) within 24 hours, reports said Saturday.

Dale Leeks from Colchester in Essex decided to prank his girlfriend, 37-year-old Kelly Greaves, by posting an ad for her in the popular bidding site. The prank was revenge for when she whipped him across his bottom in a riding shop where he fooled around too much.

The 34-year-old compared Greaves to a car and warned bidders she "starts ok but after a while, there's a constant whining noise that I can't seem to stop," a report in the Sun said.

"Bodywork is fairly tidy but close up shows signs of wear (I'm just being honest)," Dale continued in the description of his girlfriend. “No serious damage but you can tell that she's been used."

"First thing in the morning she can be very temperamental, once warmed up the wining noise lessens but I would be lying if I said it goes away completely,” he wrote. "Any offers considered...would be interested in a part exchange with a younger model."

Although he meant the whole thing as a harmless joke, the ad blew up on the site and was viewed over 81,000 times within 24 hours with over 100 bids, Daily Mail reported, adding the highest bid reached £70,200 (around $91,600).

After 24 hours, eBay removed the listing and informed Leeks the post was removed as selling “human body parts and remains” on the website was banned.

“After I put it on eBay I just kept laughing about it and she asked what I was laughing about,” Leeks who owned a landscaping gardening company and races motorbikes said. “I told her I'd put her up for sale on eBay and was like ‘gotcha’. At first, she thought no one would see it and thought it didn't matter.”

“But we went out for dinner that evening and I was being bombarded by messages from all over Europe, and places as far away as America and Australia,” he said. “I kept looking over the table at her but I wasn't really telling her the scale it had gone.”

“The first few bids and messages on eBay were from friends who had seen that I'd done it and gone and bid on her. But from there it just majorly spiraled out of control. The bids started going mad,” he added. “I was like ‘wow, what have I done?’.”

Leeks was bombarded with all sorts of messages including offensive ones. Some asked for previous owners and said, "I'm fairly interested in putting a bid in. Can you tell me how many previous owners she has had? Also, what's her service history like?” Another asked if they could “come and have a test drive.”

The advert was taken down by eBay, but it seemed like Kelly was able to laugh at the prank.

“I don't know how high it could have gone if it wasn't taken down. I was hoping it might have gone into the millions,” Leeks said.

"Kelly turned round and said to me, 'So what price would you actually have sold me for? Would you have been upset if someone actually bought me?'" Leeks said. "I said I would have been upset but I would have been crying in either a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, which makes it a whole lot better.”

"She said if the new owner had that kind of money then she was going to have a better quality of life. So it could have backfired. Something I should say is I wouldn’t sell her and love her to bits,” he added.