All My Life For Sale Analysis

The All My Life for Sale project by John Freyer was an interesting concept to sell the best items on eBay that represented his life in Iowa City, Iowa. One of the main components of his project was to follow all of his stuff he sold (Freyer, 2001). He was asking all of the highest bidders to provide the readers of All My Life for Sale with an update on the piece of his life that they acquired (Freyer, 2001). The items chosen had no real monetary value, but instead had stories of how he received them to what they did for him. The story behind each item is where the real value lied and people from all over wanted to be a part of his story.
Looking at many items and reading their descriptions from the All My Life for Sale web site listings, I chose to compare The Joy of Home Brewing to a few listings on eBay. The listing for The Joy of Home Brewing was more of a …show more content…
For example this description used a famous cookbook that most people would recognize by title “Kind of like the Joy of Cooking is to Food” (Freyer, 2001). The whole story behind the listing was about how bad his first batch of home brew was, and with each batch he improved his skills so much, John impressed a master brewer at the Empire Brewing Company. The first eBay page the listing was a combination of subjective and objective. For example the seller used part of the cover “The home brewer's Bible” (eBay) which makes a person think it’s the best book out there and no other book compares. The second eBay site was straight and forward using an objective listing “Stouts, ales, lagers, porters, bitters, pilsners, specialty beers, and meads . . . they’re all remarkably easy to make with the New Complete Joy of Home Brewing” (eBay). The