Paul Osborn of the U.K. suspected his wife was having an affair, so he put her for sale on eBay. Bids for the goods, listed as ""cheating, lying, adulterous slag of a wife" reached $961,700 before the 44-year-old man decided to pull the auction. Good thing he did: eBay's terms of use forbid the sale of humans, in whole or in part.

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