{"id":42782,"date":"2012-08-13T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42782"},"modified":"2012-08-13T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T08:58:39","slug":"video-game-store-owner-auctions-life-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42782-video-game-store-owner-auctions-life-on-ebay","title":{"rendered":"Video game store owner auctions life on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida resident, Shane Butcher, is selling his life on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>While you can\u2019t necessarily <em>control<\/em> him, you do get all his assets for a hefty asking price.<\/p>\n<p>$3.5 million (R28,5 million) to be exact, and what makes the deal interesting is that Butcher is the owner of a video game retail store chain, R.U. GAME?<\/p>\n<p>Successfully bidding and \u201cwinning\u201d his life will grant you three stores and all its current stock, along with his house and condo, three cars, three kayaks and rare game collection.<\/p>\n<p>Butcher&#8217;s listing notes that all of his employees have promised to &#8220;give 110% in helping the new owners with the transition&#8221; and a personal vow to stay on as a consultant for six months.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re interested in jumping into the shoes of someone else and owning some video game stores, head over to eBay and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/MY-LIFE-SALE-R-U-GAME-VIDEO-GAME-STORE-BUSINESS-WWW-RUGAMESTORE-COM-\/261065510465?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item3cc8b78e41&amp;ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101#ht_932wt_1271\" target=\"_blank\">place your bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/MY-LIFE-SALE-R-U-GAME-VIDEO-GAME-STORE-BUSINESS-WWW-RUGAMESTORE-COM-\/261065510465?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item3cc8b78e41&amp;ssPageName=RSS:B:SHOP:US:101#ht_932wt_1271\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/42776-games-you-can-play-this-week-16.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Games you can play this week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/42769-win-evga-geforce-gt-610-gpu.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Win EVGA GeForce GT 610 GPU<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42762-dota-2-custom-item-lifted-from-aion-valve-bans-designer.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DotA 2 custom item lifted from Aion; Valve bans designer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42754-bioware-co-founder-leaves-the-studio.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bioware co-founder leaves the studio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SOE president praises Bioware\u2019s decision to make SWTOR free-to-play\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42424-soe-president-praises-biowares-decision-to-make-swtor-free-to-play.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOE president praises Bioware\u2019s decision to make SWTOR free-to-play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bid to buy video game store owner&#8217;s life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":42784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,6198,5592,6195,6196,6197,3462,6194],"class_list":["post-42782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bidding","tag-ebay","tag-r-u-game","tag-ru-game","tag-shane-butcher","tag-video-game-news","tag-video-game-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42786,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42782\/revisions\/42786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}