A British man is going viral online for trolling his girlfriend by putting her up for auction on eBay.

Dale Leeks told CTVNews that he posted the ad as a joke after his better half, Kelly Greaves, recently whipped him on his butt at a horse riding shop.

So that same evening, as they were getting ready for date night, he put his girlfriend of one year up for auction.

He listed her as a “miniature collectible” and likened her to a used car because she makes a “constant whining noise” and “the rear end leeks a bit but nothing that can’t be plugged.”

Leeks, a London-based landscaper, showed her the ad before going to dinner and laughed it off. But at their date, he noticed that his phone kept going off. Turns out, his tongue-in-cheek auction sparked a bidding war across Europe, Australia and the United States. And 24 hours later, when eBay removed the ad, bidding had reached $119,000.

“I thought, ‘Oh no, what have I done?” he said. The post was seen more than 81,000 times, and eBay pulled the plug on it because it went against the policy of selling human body parts or remains.

Bidders asked Leeks if they could take Greaves out “for a test drive” and others asked for “close-up pictures of the body work.”

While their online joke turned into a social media sensation, the couple says there are no hard feelings between the two of them.

“But when it was going up to ($170,000) in a day, I said, ‘I’m not going to lie, I would have been quite sad to see you go, but it wouldn’t have been so sad ‘cause I would have been crying in my Ferrari or my Lamborghini,” Leeks jokingly said.

Leeks said he and Graves, who’s the director of a heating company, were friends for more than a decade before dating, so she knows how to handle a prank.

“She couldn’t get into a relationship with me like this if she couldn’t take a joke,” he said. “This is a just a normal day living with me, really … I do stuff like this all the time.”