Australian man, Ian Usher sells his life on eBay: Erase and reboot or sell out and cash in? You decide!

In what might possibly be the greatest publicity stunt ever concocted by a single man, Ian Usher has placed his entire life up for an auction that will begin June 22nd on eBay. The auction is said to include his home, jet ski’s, skydiving gear, car, and even a two-week trial at his job managing a rug store. The general premise of the auction is this: He had a great life with the woman of his dreams, but then she left him. Now he wants to let go of everything and just make a brand new start for himself somewhere new. He readily admits: “I am still not sure whether this is inspired madness, complete foolishness, or just some sort of mid-life crisis.

“On the day it’s all sold and settled, I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all,” Usher says on his Web site. “I appreciate that many people have had to cope with much more than I have and have had much more sadness in their lives. This is just my way of dealing with what has happened to me.”

“Everything that I have — the furniture in the house — all has memories attached to it,” Usher, 44, told Seven Network television. “It’s time to shed the old, and in with the new.”

However, many readers of his website ALife4Sale are stating that it looks like a big stunt to make Ian a millionaire. On his site, he is telling the 1st of 4 chapters of his life and the story behind his marriage for free. Now for a mere $2.95 you can download the other 3 installments of the story to see where it all went wrong and what led up to the upcoming drastic purge of his life as he knows it.

So readers, tell me… do you think he’ll follow through with the auction? Do you think he’ll make more money off the auction or the e-book? Do you think he’ll get sued by his now ex-wife? For more on Ian Usher, here is what we at RRC were able to find about him.

Ian Usher on Blogger

Ian Usher on ALife4Sale

Chess champion and cold war icon Bobby Fischer succumbs to kidney failure early this morning in his Iceland home. Friends say “He was not a man who wanted to seek medical attention. He didn’t believe in Western medicine,” made world headlines by defeating Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in a celebrated Cold War chess showdown in Reykjavik in 1972, took Icelandic citizenship in 2005 to avoid being deported to the United States. He was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia in 1992.

Although considered a genius with an IQ higher than that of Albert Einstein, it seems it was his eccentricities that made a lasting impression. He would make extravagant demands over matches, throwing regular tantrums over the position of cameras and the audience and succeeded in alienating himself from all but a small band of friends and chess enthusiasts. Fischer was an outspoken anti-Semite, using broadcasts at far-flung radio stations to accuse Jews of everything from his legal woes to an alleged conspiracy to kill off elephants.
In a phillipine radio interview Fischer accused the media of trying to “poison the public against me.” “They constantly use the words eccentric, eccentric, eccentric, weird,” Fischer said. “I am boring. I am boring!” This was shortly after his scruffy appearance caused him to be mistakeny identified as a suspect in a California bank robbery in 1981.

Fischer first learned to play chess by locking himself in a room for days on end facing off against himself. Though his name is obscure for this younger generation, his antics are certainly understood and appreciated by those outside of the media machine. I raise my glass to you Mr. Bobby Fischer!

~WC~