Mobile junk shop is just the ticket for organs

A GEEK HAS invented a sort of Ebay cum Loot cum Craig’s List for the mobile phone user.

Already there’s some dubious looking listings up there. Someone appears to be selling his kidneys on the site. The INQUIRER didn’t bother spending the requisite quid to inquire any further, but it has to be a scam, doesn’t it?

A more realistic looking advert was for Eagles tickets. The ageing rockers are playing London dates and tickets are like gold dust. Who’d have thought that there were so many people still alive that can still hum Hotel California?

Now that’s worth a quid. On further investigation, it turns out that the entry for “Eagles tickets London Dates” relates to Crystal Palace FC, AKA The Eagles. They’re not ageing rockers, they’re a football team currently near the bottom of the second division, and near the bottom of London.

Presumably this wasn’t what founder Akin Fernandes spent two hard years of programming in PHP to achieve. “A lot of the time when people flog things, they don’t have time to go home and log onto ebay. They want to get rid of it straight away, at the point of need.”

So instead of builders chucking perfectly good windows into a skip, for example, they can advertise them free and some other hairy-arsed builder can come and pick them up before the skip is taken away.

Upingme could be a boon for recycling. Or you could sell a kidney. Mind you, it’s a pound a time to get the information, so if it tales off someone will be coining it in. µ