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Man Auctions Forehead Advertising on eBay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thought-you-can't-sell-body-parts dept.

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).""

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  1. Re:It's a stunt... by MaelstromX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  2. Re:It's a stunt... by BrynM · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.
    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. Your local channel will probably have "Sell your forhead as ad space - Tonight at 11" rather than "Accused ringleader of prisoner abuse scandal goes on trial" or "Nuclear submarine hit undersea object". Sad, but true. Remember that an under-educated populace is more maleable in most views.

    I think it fits on /. as one of those weird-geek items, but that's about it.

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  3. Re:It's a stunt... by dasunt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.