The Ad's on both, EBAY & Craigslist were merely marketing tools to either sell my home or perhaps meet someone special or BOTH. This is similar to some of the personal ads out there. My ad reads Florida Home- Princess Bride included. This was intended to be a cute lighthearted personal ad. I also wanted to bring attention to my home. I am also willing to sell my home in a separate transaction. Please inquire if you would like further information on my home. The meaning of Princess Bride=Married. I would like to get married & perhaps kept my home, which means sharing my life/home with someone special. I need to be with someone that I am compatible with. It will be about love, care and respect. I will never settle for less no matter how difficult times are I hope to find My Prince Charming to share my home & my life with. This is not about the money. I only owe $70,000 on my home. I do not need my Prince to purchase my home. This is about finding my Soul Mate & sharing my home, & my life with that person. The story is about meeting the Right person & living Happily Ever After. The reason I included random price on EBAY for shipping and handling was to create interest not bids. I had hoped for questions about the home and/or about me. There was Never a Price for my companionship. I am not for sale. I have been on TV & Radio trying to clear it all up. The people who know me know that I am good person and understand the true intentions for the AD. Did you hear of my story in the News? It was misrepresented by some of the media. The fact is, I placed the Ad as a gutsy marketing tool; I never realized the ad would get picked apart and turned into story that would go worldwide. It's ridiculous the way some of the media portrayed it. I think you know how the media can manipulate a story to make it sound like scandalous news story. This is how they make Money. I have had mainly positive response and I am only reading legitimate articles and positive e-mail. Fox's The Moment of Truth has contacted me and sent me the paperwork to appear on their game show. I have not decided if I will appear on the show as of yet. I have signed on to do a Dr Phil reality series. I have also been contacted by Lifetime. I signed on with a California production studio to pitch a TV reality show. The show will be about my pursuit for Mr. Right. I tried to do as many radio & TV interviews as I could to clear up some of the misconceptions out there. I had a live Fox world interview on Fox- America’s Newsroom. I was interviewed on Sunrise, the Australia Live Morning show. I have also had a few local news interviews. My interview for ProSieben TV a German TV show, which will also be aired soon. Inside Edition recently aired an interview I had with Les Trent.
Buy my home and marry me: Barbie-esque blonde's internet sale
Looking for love ... Deven Trabosh.
Photo: AFP
She's tried nightclubs and online dating sites, but now a 42-year-old single mother is looking for love where everyone else's heart is breaking - the real estate market.
After a year of trying to sell her four-bedroom home and eight years of singledom, Deven Trabosh is offering her South Florida home and a shot at marrying her on the internet.
"I figured let's combine the ad because I'm looking for love and I'm looking to sell the house," said Trabosh, a Barbie-esque blonde who teeters around the nearly 2000 square-foot house in patent leather heels.
"Marry a Princess Lost in America," Trabosh wrote in the ads she posted on eBay and Craigslist last week. She describes a life of romance and travel and a home decorated with vaulted ceilings, upgraded tile and a soaking tub in a gated community with a pool and tennis courts.
Trabosh, a licensed real estate agent who hasn't practiced in years, knew she would struggle to sell the home in the troubled real estate market, but insists her fairytale ad isn't just a sales gimmick.
"I'm struggling...I don't want to lose my house and I want to find somebody," said Trabosh, who changed her name in the ad to Traboscia to keep people from finding her in the phone book. "So I came up with this dream plan because I've always dreamt about being a fairytale princess."
Trabosh says eBay removed her ad, though she planned to change the wording and repost it. Under the site's prohibited services policy, eBay does not allow the sale of human beings, body parts or relationships, spokeswoman Catherine England said Friday.
Trabosh hasn't received any serious offers, but says she's had nearly 500 responses, mostly positive, including one from Ottie of Surrey, England, who e-mailed to say, "You are offering the perfect life with the perfect American princess."
She whips out her laptop to show off a picture of Claudio, a handsome Italian wine and cheese taster, who she's been corresponding with since he responded to the ad. Seated on a white leather love seat in her living room, she giggles almost girlishly about him. They're hoping to meet in Miami in a few weeks.
She's gotten criticism too. Her 21-year-old daughter Haley says she just wants her mom to find love, but her 14-year-old daughter says her mother is embarrassing her. Other have e-mailed to say she's selling herself short.
"I'm not selling myself. I'm selling love...to meet that true love," Trabosh says. "Of course, it's gonna take more chemistry and connection. It's not going to be instantaneous that I'm just going to be automatically for sale...it's a package deal for true love."
Trabosh isn't the first to use the Internet to hawk the unconventional. A heartbroken Australian man recently tried to sell his life online, including his house, job and friends. Others have sold body space, promising to display advertisements for the highest bidder.
"There is a plethora of quirky ads on craigslist that pop up on craigslist every day, and this appears to be one of them," spokeswoman Susan MacTavish Best said in an e-mail. "Scads of couples have met and, thus, married through craigslist over the last twelve years sometimes marrying the person who bought their tired couch."
Ideally, Trabosh hopes a European man will close the deal and says she's willing to move overseas.
"I know I'm putting myself out there. I'm sincere. I believe in true Love!
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