{"id":623,"date":"2006-04-06T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/06\/buy-a-new-identity-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2006-04-06T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T18:07:18","slug":"buy-a-new-identity-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/06\/buy-a-new-identity-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy a new identity on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roll up! Roll up! <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=9507150481\">British identity for sale<\/a>! Get &#8217;em while they&#8217;re hot!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am selling\/leasing my British identity to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, the buyer will only own it for a limited period of time (probably will expire sometime after 2008) as the UK government will be nationalising it at that point and placing all details of the said identity onto a national database, for which privilege the owner will have to pay an exhorbitant fee. <\/p>\n<p>Half of all proceeds from the sale will go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.No2ID.net\">www.No2ID.net<\/a>, the remainder will be used to get a new identity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best before 2008. <\/p>\n<p>(You can use eBay&#8217;s &#8220;Watch this item&#8221; functionality to see how much it goes for.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll up! Roll up! British identity for sale! Get &#8217;em while they&#8217;re hot! I am selling\/leasing my British identity to the highest bidder. 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