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Husband-seeking dot-com exec ditched by eBay

Kay Hammond, the 24-year-old Internet entrepreneur who tried to auction herself... Read more

14 December, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Dot-com boss on offer at eBay

...is seeking a husband by putting herself up for auction on eBay. Kay Hammond, aged 24, is looking to marry the successful bidder in early... Read more

14 December, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Re:Viewing 2002 - Whatever happened to the dot-coms?

...But if you think that's tasteless, you hadn't counted on Kay Hammond who enjoyed short-lived fame on the back of one particular... Read more

23 December, 2002 by Will Sturgeon

Will's Web Watch: Auctions - bidding farewell to common sense

...years we have covered a number of interesting sales and tales - from Kay Hammond, the eBay bride, to German gardener Thomas Vogel, who was saddled... Read more

13 June, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

Internet wife jilted

...t care too much for money, money can't buy me love..." Kay Hammond, the internet businesswoman who auctioned herself as a wife on QXL... Read more

15 February, 2002 by Aled Herbert

Internet wife gets her man

...The bidding has ended for the hand in marriage of internet entrepreneur Kay Hammond on QXL.com. Ben Webb, the successful husband-to-be, beat... Read more

28 January, 2002 by Aled Herbert

Internet bride takes precautions

Hammond checks out dubious bidders... Would-be internet wife Kay Hammond has employed a lawyer to check the financial assets of people... Read more

14 January, 2002 by Heather McLean

Bid boost for the 'buy-me' bride

...in the auction for the right to marry controversial dot-com entrepreneur Kay Hammond. It's the first bid that Hammond has received since listing... Read more

19 December, 2001 by Ben King

£10m web bride still willing to wed the highest bidder

...selling themselves on QXL is "not in violation of terms and conditions"... Kay Hammond, the internet entrepreneur intent on auctioning herself to the highest bidder... Read more

18 December, 2001 by Heather McLean

eBay wife offered £10m

...has a reserve price of £250,000 - went up on the site, Kay Hammond, MD of ISP Tamba Internet, was ordered to withdraw her lot... Read more

17 December, 2001 by Heather McLean

For sale: dot-com MD, potential wife, good condition, £250,000

...her modest reserve price is a cool quarter of a million pounds. Kay Hammond, the managing director of corporate ISP Tamba Internet, has been so... Read more

14 December, 2001 by Graham Hayday

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