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Man Auctions Forehead Advertising on eBay
Sammy at Palm Addict writes "According to the BBC, a 20-year-old US man is selling advertising space on his forehead to the highest bidder on website eBay. "Andrew Fisher, from Omaha, Nebraska, said he would have a non-permanent logo or brand name tattooed on his head for 30 days. "The way I see it I'm selling something I already own; after 30 days I get it back." Mr Fisher has received 39 bids so far, with the largest bid currently at more than $322 (£171).""
People sell everything, these days. Gues there is a 'need' for it...
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How do you measure the number of hits on the guy's forehead?
It looks like the ebay trolls are going to kill his auction, though. I think this is more of a 'stunt' by someone desperately seeking attention. Kinda funny... but still a 'stunt'.
Which really makes me wonder why anyone even gives a second thought to all the stupid shit people put for sale on eBay anymore. It was cute the first couple of times, but now we're having a major news source reporting every couple weeks about some kook who listed something stupid that will get driven up to a ridiculous level by the media attention.
At some point, when will everybody just stop caring? eBay is just an extention of the real world marketplace. If I go to a flea market and find someone's garbage for sale, what are the odds that any news organization would write a story about that? So why do the rules change for eBay?
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I think this is more of a 'stunt' by someone desperately seeking attention.
No, I'll bet he makes a fortune.
This is going to be all over the news. It's brilliant.
Kind of a small forehead. I'd rather get my logo on a famous celebrity with a big forehead. Like, say, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Guess it would cost more, though you could always just get her really drunk and then write on her forehead with a permanent marker. Well. I couldn't.
Seriously, though, is this the next phase in product advertisement? Sure, it's more noticeable than having a baseball cap with a product on it, but sheesh. I'm having all kinds of nightmares about futuristic product advertising from Minority Report already, that seems much more likely to happen.
I think I'll just chalk it up to someone doing something for his fifteen minutes of fame than any actual change in the landscape of product advertisement.
Why would any company pay for this?
Nike has no problem getting people to pay them to have advertisements over their heads.
> it appears that since the story was written, the advertising space is now up to 99 bids, with current
> high bid of $14,999.00, placed by http://www.pitronix.co.uk/...
I was going to say what a stupid bastard this guy is, but now...
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And to think that we wear company logo'ed tee-shirts for free...
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I think it fits on /. as one of those weird-geek items, but that's about it.
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I dont any one does give it a second though initially, a few people just bid for fun. But when the bidding exceeds $1000 it becomes quite interesting because of the money involved, condsidering it is such a simple/stupid idea. The great part is this silly idea is now making the guy wealthy. Its becoming self perpetuating the more people bid the more the larger companies want part of the advertising ($15,000 may be little for this kind of advertising). IMO its a great idea by Andrew, a get rich quick scheme that actually appears to be working. I enjoy it because its fun and I feel good for Andrew the student..
well, then it would just be a tattoo - as nobody would know that there was an actual firm by that name, or that it was the logo for some product.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It's the news we're fed. When networks and local news want to downplay real current events, we get this kind of crap instead. I'm not saying that there's some vast conspiracy or something, but there does seem to be a definite push for "catchy" yet unimportant news which helps keep the populace mis-informed.
The push that you speak of is the public itself: News caters to the lowest common denominator.
Blame the public.
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Hmmm...
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