Woman Sells House & Self



Woman Sells House & Self

Deven Trabosh, a divorced mother of two from West Palm Beach, Florida, has listed her home online (Craigslist & eBay) in an effort to sell her house and herself. She hopes that whoever buys the house will want to share her life.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - She's tried night clubs and online dating sites, but now a 42-year-old single mother is looking for love where everyone else's heart is breaking — the real estate market.

After a year of trying to sell her four-bedroom home and eight years of singledom, Deven Trabosh is offering her South Florida home and a shot at marrying her on the Internet.

"I figured let's combine the ad because I'm looking for love and I'm looking to sell the house," said Trabosh, who teeters around the nearly 2,000 square-foot house in patent leather heels.

"Marry a Princess Lost in America," Trabosh wrote in the ads she posted on eBay and Craigslist last week. She describes a life of romance and travel and a home decorated with vaulted ceilings, upgraded tile and a soaking tub in a gated community with a pool and tennis courts.

Trabosh, a licensed real estate agent who hasn't practiced in years, knew she would struggle to sell the home in the troubled real estate market, but insists her fairytale ad isn't just a sales gimmick.

"I'm struggling...I don't want to lose my house and I want to find somebody," said Trabosh, who changed her name in the ad to Traboscia to keep people from finding her in the phone book. "So I came up with this dream plan because I've always dreamt about being a fairytale princess."

She listed the home for $340,000 on a sell-it-yourself Web site, but upped the price, adding a $500,000 shipping fee to include her companionship on eBay.

Trabosh says eBay removed her ad, though she planned to change the wording and repost it. Under the site's prohibited services policy, eBay does not allow the sale of human beings, body parts or relationships, spokeswoman Catherine England said Friday.

Trabosh hasn't received any serious offers, but says she's had nearly 500 responses, mostly positive, including one from Ottie of Surrey, England, who e-mailed to say, "You are offering the perfect life with the perfect American princess."

She whips out her laptop to show off a picture of Claudio, a handsome Italian wine and cheese taster, who she's been corresponding with since he responded to the ad. Seated on a white leather love seat in her living room, she giggles almost girlishly about him. They're hoping to meet in Miami in a few weeks.

She's gotten criticism, too. Her 21-year-old daughter Haley says she just wants her mom to find love, but her 14-year-old daughter says her mother is embarrassing her. Other have e-mailed to say she's selling herself short.

"I'm not selling myself. I'm selling love...to meet that true love," Trabosh says. "Of course, it's gonna take more chemistry and connection. It's not going to be instantaneous that I'm just going to be automatically for sale...it's a package deal for true love."

Trabosh isn't the first to use the Internet to hawk the unconventional. A heartbroken Australian man recently tried to sell his life online, including his house, job and friends. Others have sold body space, promising to display advertisements for the highest bidder.

"There is a plethora of quirky ads on craigslist that pop up on craigslist every day, and this appears to be one of them," spokeswoman Susan MacTavish Best said in an e-mail. "Scads of couples have met and, thus, married through craigslist over the last twelve years sometimes marrying the person who bought their tired couch."

Ideally, Trabosh hopes a European man will close the deal and says she's willing to move overseas.

"I know I'm putting myself out there. I'm sincere. I believe in true love," she says. "I want to get married again."

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42-year old Deven Trabosh is an attractive blonde who’s tried dating sites and singles bars, before switching to online real estate ads to find love.

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Deven listed her home for $340,000 on Craigslist and eBay, but upped the price by adding a $500,000 fee to include her companionship.

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“I figured let’s combine the ad because I’m looking for love and I’m looking to sell the house,” said Trabosh, a single mom who looks like Barbie and teeters around in a miniskirt and high heels.

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“I’m struggling…I don’t want to lose my house and I want to find somebody,” said Deven Trabosh, who changed her name in the ad to Dee Traboscia to keep people from finding her in the phone book. “So I came up with this dream plan because I’ve always dreamt about being a fairytale princess.”

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“I’m not selling myself. I’m selling love…to meet that true love,” Deven told reporters. “Of course, it’s gonna take more chemistry and connection. It’s not going to be instantaneous that I’m just going to be automatically for sale…it’s a package deal for true love.”

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Her 21-year-old daughter Haley says she just wants her mom to find love, but her 14-year-old daughter says her mother is embarrassing her.

• Medium? (adoption newspaper)

• Age?

o Arbitrary

o Obviously flawed (stupidity knows no age)

• Mail-order brides

• Resumes online ()

• People = possessions, objects

o Objectified, marketed, used ( abused

• She has 2 children – she’s selling them, too

o Child endangerment?

o Slavery?

Articles on Selling Babies on EBAY

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Parents try to sell baby on eBay

May 24, 2008 at 03:13 pm

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday that they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57.

Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in the care of youth services in the southwestern Allgaeu region, although the child's 23-year-old mother insisted that the ad was only a joke.

Authorities have launched an investigation into possible child trafficking against the baby's mother and 24-year-old father, neither of whom was identified.

"Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has gotten too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28 inches (70 cm) long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a stroller," police quoted the ad as reading.

No offers were made for the child in the two hours and 30 minutes the ad was posted on Tuesday. EBay later deleted the posting but assisted police in tracking down the parents.

Several people who saw the ad alerted police.

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• AGAINST:

o Adoption

o Morality

▪ Humans = money

▪ Humans = w/soul

▪ Humans = possession

o Do to/with yourself BUT not for other humans

o Who = adoptive parents? (sex slaves, torture, abuse)

o = slavery

o Society

▪ Majority against

▪ The sanctity of family institution

o Against the law

o Ebay has banned other sales (souls, organs)

o Negligent to subject child to the dangers/predators on the Web

• FOR:

o 14th Amendment

o Better off (than w/those “parents”)

o It’s a free country

o Adoption = OK (child for $$)

o Adoption =

▪ Too expensive

▪ Too exclusive

• Minorities

• d/a addicts

o baby brokering = OK

o surrogacy = OK

o in vitro, test tube = OK

o abortion = legal

o moral relativity

o there’s a market for anything (this: China & boys)

o young women/teens in college/HS

▪ whole life ahead

▪ college tuition = high

▪ better than abortion

▪ better than porn

▪ better than abandonment

o sell people every day

▪ advertising

▪ child stars, talent shows

▪ prostitution

▪ jobs

o sell organs (certain)

o sell sperm/eggs (“ingredients”)

o sell blood/plasma

o baby = property (I made it, it’s mine) – like art

o baby = property (until 18)

o government

▪ capital punishment (takes life)

▪ prison (for life, period)

▪ war

▪ draft

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