The Internet is for sale

March 25th, 2008 · 15 Comments ·

Do you have a spare P350,000? The Internet, apparently, is for sale for that amount.

I regularly read the classified ads section of Sun.Star Cebu, the paper I work for. At any given day, you’d have people selling anything from pets, houses, power tools to second-hand vehicles to adult toys (under Various Items, together with “Injectable Testosterone for male menopause”).

Sunday is the best day to read the classified section. Sun.Star Cebu averages a hundred pages on Sundays, with the classified ads section accounting for half of these. Looking for a boarding house in Cebu? You can find a lot of advertisements there for boarding houses. Looking for a job in Cebu? On a Sunday, many companies put out full-page advertisements listing their job vacancies.

Classified ads are billed by the column inch so you often see ad copy abbreviated. And so you have massage services promising “good quality srcs. w/guartd 2tal satsfction young M/F exprt thrpst.” One says they have “cuteboy & pinay” for home and hotel service. There’s also the “NONSURG” services for face-lifts, mole removals, and get this: “earhole repair.”

But this ad takes the cake:

Most likely the advertiser meant Internet cafe. But if you think he or she is really selling the Internet and you want your piece of the action, send me an e-mail and I’ll give you the contact numbers.

15 responses so far ↓

karla // Mar 25, 2008 at 6:12 pm

haha nice one

Ederic // Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Ang mura namang Internet n’yan. :p

Ade // Mar 25, 2008 at 6:20 pm

LOL. Let’s try to see if somebody does buy the internet.

Joni // Mar 25, 2008 at 7:15 pm

350K?? Race you to it!

Max Limpag // Mar 25, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Got there first!
By this time next year, if the only things you can find on the Internet are pron sites, it means I’ve finished paying the lay-away plan for “the Internet” and I have taken over it. Bwa ha ha ha!

Cris T. // Mar 26, 2008 at 4:58 pm

I try to find your e-mail add but :-(.

Send me the contact. I’m interested.

batang buotan // Mar 27, 2008 at 7:39 am

I bid 350,100 for the Internet! I’ll buy the Internet. Call me the owner of Internet, then. LOL

ManuelV // Mar 28, 2008 at 12:44 am

Looks like the internet keeps dropping in value each year, eh? hehehe…

Lourdz // Mar 29, 2008 at 3:16 am

haha..this is funny!

Webster12 // Mar 29, 2008 at 5:56 pm

hahaha…di na cguro kasya ung cafe..

nevermindthis // Mar 30, 2008 at 3:36 pm

im gonna buy internet too. bwahahahah

acey // Apr 1, 2008 at 2:03 am

hahaha.

hi, sir max! =D

Nico // Apr 5, 2008 at 12:49 pm

ha3.. malamang kahit piso walang bibili ng internet,, useless.. it’s a for everyone.. but of course we’re not talking ISP here.

Mark Tesch // Apr 22, 2008 at 9:16 pm

Haha! Has it been sold yet? I want to own the Internet!

Tim // Apr 25, 2008 at 10:21 am

I could stop buying domains if I just owned the entire thing