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Declassified: How to Outsource Your Relationship
In this week's Declassified, we consider a number of intriguing offers.
Lots of things are for sale this week, but who’s buying?
If electric guitars could write their own for-sale ads, this is what they’d be like.
Well, this is suspicious. The internet was more or less founded on the notion that people will look at porn without needing to be paid to. And so this is clearly a person who wants nothing more than to fill his inbox with emails from women. Best of luck.
Someone buying a Fabergé egg on impulse is strange. That same person expecting a second person to do the same is very strange. Maybe Craigslist needs an “aristocratic baubles” section for things like this.
How much online dating would a person have to do before outsourcing became economically viable? Could this same approach be applied at later stages of a relationship? Like, an assistant could handle all calls, emails, and texts, and then you could just meet up with your significant other for meals and sex. And maybe they’d have an assistant, too.
Maybe this person would pay you to tell them that posters exist. It’s worth a shot.
A lot of people do a lot of weird stuff on the internet, and ground zero for commercial e-weirdness is Craigslist. In Declassified, Torontoist combs over our city’s listings to find the best (and worst) of the bunch. Find listings we should include in our next edition? Email them to declassified@torontoist.com.
