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Florida: You can buy a lot of things online these days, even a baby's name.

Sounds surprising but it’s possible to bid and buy a baby’s name on the Net.

Web portal E-bay offers would-be parents a chance to open bids to name their unborn child.

A Florida couple has already availed of the service and has decided to sell the rights to choose the name of their unborn daughter due next month on E-Bay.

“I've sold everything from CDs, DVDs movies, video games…now it's the rights to choose the first name of our daughter who will be born September 20,,” Baby’s father Craig Sullivan says.

The cpuole hit the idea when they tried when they tried to figure out how would they live on one salary after the birth of their second child.

“I'm a managing partner of a small business. My wife is a teacher you know times are tough,” Craig says. And this online bid, they realised, might be a tough sell.

“We've got a few stipulations on the auction as far as vulgarity profanity discriminatory and such we're not too concerned about length,” Sullivan says.

“I was the one who jokingly suggested it and then it was like well hey why not?” Sullivan’s wife Heidi said.

The starting bid for the name is $14,500 bucks. “If we could pull something like this off it would really affect our families quality of life having my wife stay home and raise the family,” Sullivan says.

No bidders yet, but the Sullivans are hopeful. They say two other couples did it last year and an online casino company bought in. But Craig says they have already heard from those who say this stunt is ridiculous.

“We've had a lot of you know you're exploiting your children you know get ready for therapy,” he says.

But they also say, its worth it. “If it buys me a year with my girls I'm all for it,” Heidi says.

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