What is the meaning of life?
That is a very good question.
Meaning of Life, just $5!Yep, you can buy just about anything on eBay. People have sold friendship, dinner dates, dirt, pieces of burnt toast, naming rights for a baby and a soul (eBay stepped in and put a stop to those last two).
Now an American eBay seller is offering The True Meaning of Life (no, not the Monty Python film) for sale.
Scarlet00100 (whose page has a creepy animated character that looks like Storm from the X-Men) describes the item rather mysteriously: "Does life have meaning? Would you like to know what purpose you have in this world? Now you can stop wondering. Life and the living has purpose. One half of the proceeds go to charity. Please give your self the opportunity to know the answer. What the true meaning of life is."
And it's just US$5! Unfortunately, Scarlet00100 won't ship the Meaning of Life outside the US, so we won't be able to find out what it is down under. Presumably, if it can't be sent internationally, it's not something naff like: "Be excellent to each other".
It doesn't appear that any of Scarlet's eBay feedback relates to this item either (it's mainly positive, but also mainly relating to t-shirts and car parts).
What could it possibly be? Based on the image the meaning is... a nice vista. The description above makes me think of the sort of pamphlets that get thrust into your hands by door-knockers on the weekend.
Footnote: apparently the Meaning of Life has already been sold once on eBay, where is commanded just $3.26. Maybe Scarlet00100 was the one who bought it and doesn't need it any more, or perhaps Scarlet00100 is, like so many other eBay users, a scalper (albeit one with very small profit margins).