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Since Facebook integrated a marketplace into its platform in 2016, millions of users around the world have bought and sold all sorts of items without having to create additional accounts: from furniture to vehicles to home appliances. Now the integrated platform, which enables local buying and selling of a wide variety of items, is in the spotlight for the bizarre offer from a user from Leicester, Great Britain: a half-eaten sandwich is sold for more than 1.3 million euros.
The offer
The user took a few bites of his sandwich and seeing that he couldn't finish it, he decided to put it up for sale so as not to waste the food. “A half-eaten sandwich. Adorable. Very crispy. For sale because I can’t finish it,” he wrote. What is most striking, however, is not only the fact that it was put up for sale, but also the sum required to acquire it: one million pounds (approximately 1,300,000 million euros).
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Social chaos
After the uproar and avalanche of insulted comments that the “delicious, half-eaten sandwich” generated, the seller withdrew the offer. However, this is not the first time a user has put their food up for sale. A few months ago, a man advertised “the saddest lunch I've ever seen: microwaved potatoes with boiled beans.” In short, a world that is still evolving between bizarre advertising, potential scams and little respect for food ethics.
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