Desperate, Jobless Saleswoman Sells her Services on eBay

An ex-saleswoman from Gloucester, Deborah Bowen, lost her job two years ago. During her employment she used to earn about 33, 000 GBP per year. However, since then, as with the rest of the world, things had taken a sharp downturn.

Today, Deborah, 38, living in Gloucester, says her home would be repossessed in two weeks if she cannot pay the next mortgage installment, and desperation has made her go creative in her job search.

Deborah says she has appeared at hundreds of job interviews in the last two years but has not been able to find a permanent job. Some of the temporary jobs she could manage, according to her, paid as low as GBP 6.50 per hour, a rate at which she found it next to impossible to make her ends meet.

She needs to secure work by the time her next mortgage payment falls due and out of desperation, and being fed up with normal avenues of seeking work, she put herself up for sale on eBay on Friday, February 17.

Her advertisement read: “For sale – a willing and able permanent or temporary employee….Sales Professional/BDM/W/house will do almost anything for work. Please read on, Could you be the right person to give me the right opportunity?”

She said, “I am not someone who wants to take state handouts. I just want a paid job that will cover my mortgage, pay my bills and allow me to eat.

“I have been to every employment agency in town and they have nothing. I wanted to get myself out there so I decided I had to try something different to get a job,” said she.

As per latest reports, her advertisement is yet to draw any offers.

However, comments both for and against her step has been abounding on the internet.

For most that made comments, she was showing both initiative and brass to take such a bold step, and most wished her well.

However, there were some detractors who had read her CV on eBay and commented that there were too many grammatical mistakes and capitalization errors, and that her CV was far too long.

Some comments criticized that GBP 6.50 an hour was quite decent rates given the situation of the economy and was nothing to sniff at.

However, that doesn’t solve Deborah’s problem which includes the fear of losing the roof over her head.