BUCHANAN, Mich. - Dan Baber is so proud of his mother he offered bidders on eBay a chance to buy one day of her attention, to "make you feel like you are the most special person on the Earth."
The Internet auction site didn't go for the idea, so Baber decided to put Sue Hamilton's wisdom up for sale instead.
As of Saturday afternoon, 40 bids on eBay item No. 1527369622 had pushed the price up to $165. The auction page was headed: "Best Mother in the World — Her Thoughts."
"All I know is I have the best mother in the world. ... All proceeds will go to her so she can spoil her grandchildren and teach me how to be as good of a father as she was a mother," the new listing reads.
Hamilton said she thought it was just another item to bid on when she ran across the auction. Instead she found a tribute.
"The more I read, the more my heart just melted," Hamilton told the Detroit Free Press.
It was especially touching, she said, because she was recently laid off from her job and because Sunday is her 54th birthday.
Baber, 32, a businessman in this southwest Michigan community, initially put his mother up for sale, rather than just her thoughts.
"She will e-mail you for one full day. She will make you feel like you are the most special person on the Earth. She will love you no matter what you do," that auction read.
eBay officials removed the offering on Thursday, telling Baber that auctioning his mother could "leave open the possibility of misrepresentation and liability issues, as well as potential safety concerns for your mother," the Free Press reported.
