OneYearForSale: A U.S. college student sells one year of his time online

by since1984 on 2007-01-09 00:12:02

Those guys overseas really can pull off anything. First, there was someone who made a fortune by selling grids. Then, someone traded a paperclip for the one-year residency rights to a villa. Now, Peter Sauer from the University of Michigan has started selling his time online.

You can purchase time for your information to be displayed on his webpage at a rate of $1/minute, for as long or as short as you'd like. As of my writing this post, this guy has sold a total of 2,540 minutes, which equals $2,540 worth of time. If a year is counted as 365 days, and all of this time is sold, the revenue would reach...