The Kijiji ad which drew lots of attention to a Moncton man has also made him some money as he sold the subject of the ad — a snowblower — over the weekend.Weh-Ming Cho's 'glorious tribute to man's triumph over nature.' Kijiji

Sunday's blogpost by Weh-Ming Cho reads "The Snowblower that ate the internet: SOLD."

He said all he wanted to do was sell his snowblower so that he could hire a plowdriver to take care of his driveway this winter.

His humourous selling approach was what took the World Wide Web by storm. He also happened to post the ad on the day of New Brunswick's first snowstorm of the season

"You gave it your best shot. You tried to shovel by yourself and I respect you for that," the ad says.

"I have a snow blower and I want you to own it. It's like I can almost see you: sitting there, your legs are probably crossed and your left hand is on your chin. Am I right? How'd I do that? The same way that I know that YOU ARE GOING TO BUY THIS SNOWBLOWER."

He posted the ad last Wednesday. In less than a week, he says the ad was viewed 342,465 times, with 48,574 people linking to it on Facebook .

He says the ad was viewed about 55 times per minute and linked to almost eight times per minute.

The ad also did pretty well for him personally.

He more than tripled his followers on Twitter (@WehMingCho if you're curious) and 1,400 emails came into his inbox.Weh-Ming Cho says his Kijiji snowblower ad was viewed more than 300,000 times in less than a week. The Blognostifier

He received:

• Job offers.
• Date offers.
• Marriage proposals.
• Speculation on his career.
• Advice sought on how to teach people to write ads.
• A few offers to buy the snowblower.

A journalist bought the snowblower in the end, though Cho's blog doesn't say if Alec Bruce paid the asking price of $900.

He said he admired Bruce's reply because he used full sentences, "with grammar and spelling and everything."

Then Bruce warmed Cho's heart a little with the add-on "as a professional writer, I think we writer guys ought to stick together ..." to which Cho says in his blogpost "an actual, honest to goodness writer, whose work I've actually read and am familiar with, included me in the same group he was in."

Perhaps now Cho can rest. He wrote on his blog that he'd only slept about 10 hours out of 72 hours because "being internet famous is exhausting."