How much would it cost to sell you family members?

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. How much would I have to pay you to tell your SO a complete lie that would cause them to leave you (I don’t like bass fishing, I cheated on you, I killed your dog/cat/mother, etc)?

  2. What about to get rid of your kid(s)?

The rules:
A) The people in question will be perfectly fine in the scenario. They’ll start/be given a new life with moderate prosperity. No mansions, but no shacks either. They’ll be hurt for a while, but eventually get over you and move on.
B) You may never see them again.
C) The point is to see how much it would cost for you to live without them, not to make them live without you. So don’t factor into the compensation the effects it’ll have on them, just you.

I’ve asked this question many times to many people. The spouses get sold off for anywhere from $100 to $15 million. I haven’t gotten anyone to sell a kid yet. Some even get annoyed at the proposition. One stepkid got sold for $3 million if he could still live with the bio parent, who got sold for several million too.
So, Dopers, just how much do you love them?

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I like my kids and hubby a lot better than I do money. I wouldn’t accept your offer.

If I understand the question correctly.

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Most of 'em, you couldn’t MAKE me.

But I have a few I’d give away… :smiley:

4

There isn’t enough money.

5

Ask me what I’d pay to have my family members back.

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These questions always involve some hypothetical person who is willing to pay any amount of money to smugly prove that everybody has a price.

The base price for my family is everything this guy has plus $1. Then double that amount to wipe the smug look off his face. So you, hypothetical guy, it’s one of those things that, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

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Those with long-term boy/girlfriends can answer too. Just be sure to state how long you’ve been going out. It’s not fair to go pick up someone on a blind date and turn her over to the guys in the black van for some cash…that’s cheating.

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My wife and kid are priceless, but you could have my in-laws for…well, how much change is in your pocket?

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I have been with my SO for ten + years and you can have all of the money in the world, thankyouverymuch. No amount of money is going to make me as happy as he does.

Have no kids but I’d be willing to sell my eggs for the right price…does that count?

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I would rather live homeless on the street with my husband at my side than be wealthy and alone.

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Inigo Montoya: Offer me money.
Count Rugen: Yes!
Inigo Montoya: Power, too, promise me that.
Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please…
Inigo Montoya: Offer me anything I ask for.
Count Rugen: Anything you want…
Inigo Montoya: I want my father back, you son of a bitch!

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Tis truth. There is nothing in this world more precious to me than my marriage (22 years and going strong, thankyewverymuch) and my children. I recently spent 9 months living with the knowledge that at any time, a car could pull up outside my house bearing Army officers who had come to tell me my son was dead. As jsgoddess said, ask instead how much I would’ve paid to guarantee that car would never come. (It never did…but it could again, in a few short months).

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This.

But can I interest you in my Ex?

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This is almost exactly what I was going to post, to the word.

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:sigh: Ok fine, we’ll go with the suggestion above. Suppose I kidnapped your kid…and I’m a supernatural demon. How much would you pay to get him/her back, seeing as how the regular authorities can’t touch me. And the SO? Your parents?

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well, just how supernatural of a demon are you (and what would you want with money if you were one?) Would a fight to the death be ok? Maybe a game of twister? :smiley:

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Since I’m guaranteed they’ll get over it in the long run… $0, they’d be better off without me to worry about.

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What an annoyingly selfish I-LOVE-MY-KIDS-THIS-MUCH-AND-I’D-KILL-BILLIONS-OF-PEOPLE-FOR-THEM shit thread. I couldn’t make it past the first half of the page.

I’m never having kids if it turns me into the people in that thread.

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Dad’s dead, so being a supernatural demon an’ stuff I suggest you have a chat with his mom… oh boy are you in trouble! He was her favourite too :stuck_out_tongue:

Mom, you can have for free. I’ll throw her parents into the bargain but you have to take both grandparental units, you can’t just choose one.

My brothers and SiL and nephews :mad:… supernatural demon :eek:… ok, why in all seven circles of hell is a demon asking for money :confused: and where did I put the phone number for the Vatican? All I can offer in the way of economic posessions is a laptop, a desktop, a flat that’s still more the property of the bank than mine, my savings and the clothes off my back, but I’m reasonably sure that I’ll be able to find me an exorcist who’s up for a fight

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For money or possessions? No deal. There isn’t anything worth enough.

There might be some scenarios though. Say a choice between never seeing my SO again, or all of London gets wiped out. I might even do it if I was told it would buy a cure for AIDS. But it would still take a lot of “greater good” to make it happen.

Even that would require the assurance that no harm would come to him.