I once bought a soul for $1.75. Agnostics are a good value!
Pfft. She’d be insane not to. The distributed nature of Ebay suppliers makes their entry into this market infeasible. The three key elements to successful operation of a Soul Mongering venture are personalized service, centralization of operations and strong core values (all of which are sorely lacking at eBay & thier ilk).
If successful men listed to all the folks that told them their ideas weren’t going to work, we’d all still be driving around in foot-powered cars like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
I have nothing useful to add, I just wanted to say the Winston is my hero today.
I would try to price yourself at a sustainable point just above these guys. The quotes on the website aren’t working, so you may need to do a little digging.
Mmmmmm. Fillet of soul.
No, no, the last thing that either the Devil OR God wants are atheist souls ! As anyone who’s read fantasy knows, gods and godlike entities gain power from belief, which of course means that atheism weakens them. So naturally, both God and the Devil have spent a lot of effort playing hot potato tossing atheist souls at each other. As I understand it, they finally dumped all the atheists on the Norse gods; almost no one believes in them anyway, and both they AND the atheists are too drunk to care.
Somehow I think there is a flaw in your marketing strategy. There strikes me as something inherently diabolical about consigning someone else’s soul to Hell, whereas they were already going to Hell because they already sold you their soul, but you’ll go to hell too for participating in their damnation.
Dunno, sounds like a losing proposition to me. I’ll give you a nickle for every soul you don’t want and see if I can put a good word for them in with the big guy upstairs.
READ MOAR D&D that is. They won’t have to worry about the atheists (or anyone worshiping an “overgod” who doesn’t care about us and delegates everything to lesser gods and spirits for that matter) taking them down, they’ll all just get condensed into a “wall of the faithless,” around one of the many celestial “heaven-like” cities.
Given that the Judeochristian God may or may not fit the overgod description, it’s almost a coin toss over the percentage of the world going into the wall.
I once bought a mate’s soul for a beer.
So now, as actual data points, we have:
[ul][li]One beer[/li][li]$1.75 (presumably USD)[/li][li]One slice of pizza[/li][li]A lava lamp[/ul][/li]
Granted, deriving a precise monetary value from this short list seems difficult at best – a beer, at the right moment, can be pretty much invaluable, and while most pizza tends to be in a similar monetary price range, the difference in spiritual value between a supermarket bought deep-frozen preservative pie and a finely hand-crafted Italian piece of pie-art is damn nigh infinite (some say even a bit more) – but still, as a rough guesstimate, you’re probably looking at something in the low tens of dollars, I’m sorry to say (and whoever traded his lava lamp probably still got screwed).
You forgot my 3 medium sized rubies and an emerald!? At least my invisibility potion is working (or it wasn’t considered a data point)…