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eBay stopped UK Girl From Selling Granny Online

While most kids are out in the park playing with their dogs, 10 year old Zoe Pemberton put her 61 year old grandmother, Marian Goldall up for sale.

I guess her grandmother’s incessant nagging was too much to take, and with a laptop right in front of her, she came up with an ingenious idea of selling her granny on eBay.

Zoe didn’t bother to put a reserve price, describing her granny as “rare and annoying and moaning a lot.”

“I didn’t know how much we’d get for her, maybe 99p,” she said.

Zoe later clarified that this was all supposed to be a joke. Buyers played along and bids for Zoe’s Granny went up to £20,541 before eBay took it down for violating human trafficking laws.

Source: Reuters, Huffington Post

Images: Huffington Post

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About Sarah Chong

Co-founder and editor of Penn Olson. A laid-back marketing student otherwise. Loves social media and twitters about everything! (yes even about the stranger who chants to himself) A huge Harry Potter movie fan who is extremely scared of geckos.

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