Musician barred from selling his soul on eBay
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:50 PM on 15th December 2008 
No sale: Dante Knoxx, who has been by eBay from selling his soul to the highest bidder
A musician who was fed up with his life has been barred from selling his soul to the highest bidder on internet auction website eBay.
Dante Knoxx, 24, offered the 'used' item for a starting bid of ?25,000.50 or a 'Buy it now' price of ?700,000.
But eBay pulled the listing today with about two hours to go and no bids because it breached one of the firm's policies.
'You cannot sell anything that is not physical,' said Mr Knoxx. That includes ghosts, souls and spirits which is funny.
'I have been refunded but I had 200 people watching it, I'm really disappointed by that. I had lots of emails asking if I was serious and religious groups telling me I couldn't do that, others wanted to talk about my soul.
'I had a lot of interest but no actual bidders which is a real shame.'
Mr Knoxx decided to try to sell his soul after a lack of creative jobs in his home town of Bournemouth, Dorset.
His listing read: 'I'm a highly creative person, but creativity is not without its drawbacks. 'Unfortunately where I live there are hardly any jobs to keep a creative person like myself employed in anything other than boring, mundane office jobs.'
Mr Knoxx was planning to use the money to get his experimental music group, Paradigm, which he created with a friend, up-and-running.
He quit his 'shoddy job' as a laptop repair technician and said: 'I leave it to you, the denizens of Earth, to purchase my actual soul and in return allow me to acquire some tasty capital.'
The auction included a legal contract entitling the new soul's owner to a percentage of Mr Knoxx's income for the rest of his life, with a guaranteed minimum of ?1,000 per year.
Another clause entitled the owner to 10 per cent of any intellectual works of Paradigm.
He also pledged to write a full account of the soul's life within three years and the owner of his soul would also be entitled to 10 per cent of his estate in his will.
Other clauses in the contract included sending the owner an annual report of his soul, and a birthday card on Mr Knoxx's birthday, as well as a promise to plant three trees a year.
A final clause also stated Mr Knoxx could buy back his soul for ?100,000,000.
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