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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).""
...I hope for this guy's sake that the goatse guy isn't bidding on this auction...
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His auction.
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'.
here's the link to the ebay item...
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/...
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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?
please don't let this guy give you the wrong impressions about nebraska :( we're not all that desperate for recognition.
Here's the auction here (which of course is up in the high bid ludicrousphere), but it looks like he won't be the first.
I predict there will be several hundred of these within 24 hours on eBay. Just goes to show that whatever great heights mankind can reach, stupid people can stoop much lower.
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let's all kick in a few bucks and put a big "/." on his forhead...
either that or "all your base are belong to us"...
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Here's the action: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5947720145&rd=1 which is currently at $14,999.00.
... and another guy : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949241580&rd=1 trying the same thing but for a week instead of 30 days.
Also the homepage: http://www.humanadspace.com/
Goldenpalace.com buys it.
Wow. If this Fisher guy can net $322 with his human-sized forehead just walking around Nebraska, it would be like hitting the lottery for Paul Begala on nation-wide TV.
Right?
Although I guess I'd have to go outside and mingle with other people then, huh...?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
But before I bid, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if a logo that said "Idiot inside" would infringe on Intel's trademark?
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How about Paris Hilton rent some space on her vag and ass?
Both are high visibility, so it's guaranteed to be seen by millions.
Would be great ad space for someone like Durex or Trojan.
I'm willing to be an ad broker on that deal.
Cheap advertising in Paris!
Wait until you see where I'm putting an ad (+product demo) for Viagra!
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Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome fame) started something similar a few years back. Check out Rent My Chest for more info. Basically, PayPal him 20 US bucks, and he'll write on his chest and put the 640x480 shot up on the web for people to see. Granted, it's not 30 days, but just showing the concept isn't new.
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.
From a marketing perspective. The peripheral publicity and news coverage will be quite large, even if no one ever sees the guy's forehead. And they'll get the name recognition of being the "hip, edgy company" that tatooed (albeit temporarily) this guy's forehead.
I'm sure Golden Palace doesn't give half a damn whether anyone ever sees their grilled cheese - they bought their way in to an established Internet meme.
But wasn't stuff like this "out" in the mid 90's? ome on, are people still camwhoring and writing stuff on their hairy chests and pixelated boobs?
I bet there were a lot of hoax bids up to $14,999.99 but the bids over $15K go through some kind of minimal ID verification.
This means if a bidder backs out there's enough info to sue him.
PS:
$15,000 to pay for college? At today's rates that will cover about a semester in community college. OK, I exaggerate just a bit, but only a bit.
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Shave. You'll get more available space for advertising. C'mon, folks! Let's here 'em!
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How much Rocky Dennis (MASK) could have sold his forehead space for.0 ZT1kZn xteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9bWFza3xo dG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=2;fm=1
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This has been done by CIHost. They attributed 800 new clients to the stunt. With acquisition costs around $50-$100 in the hosting industry, the $15k or so they paid was pretty much a bargain if this is true. Only difference? The guy had the logo on the back of his head, not the front.
Seriously, folks, I shave my head daily. I'll sell advertising space on the BACK of my head so that everyone behind me can read it. How creepy would it be to want to read someone's forehead, but not want to stare...
It would be better spent on an ad to hire a UI developer for the GIMP. The GIMP itself would receive indirect advertising then.
Forehead advertising has been around for a while; I'm surprised that this guy would get posted on Slashdot since at this point the shock value is pretty much gone. Toyota pulled a similar stunt earlier this year to advertise their Scions. (There's a mirror of the article from adage here.) There's even a company that rents advertising space on a (presumably) regular basis.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949232126&rd=1
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And to think that we wear company logo'ed tee-shirts for free...
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He was covered in tattoos. The best one was across his forehead which simply stated, "Yes they hurt"
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
If he's selling "popup" ads, he'll have to advertise on another part of his body :)
What is a Nebraska? /sarcasm
You think that's bad? These guys are auctioning their co-worker's forehead off on eBay , and he doesn't even know yet.
"Any actual placing of an ad on Whag's forehead is entirely at Whag's discretion, and I must warn you that I haven't told him that I'm selling his forehead on eBay, so he may be a little opposed to the idea at first. But with a little prodding and some cold hard cash, I'm sure it'll all work out."
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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.
Why does this sound like the setup to a Far Side cartoon?
[Drawing of a man with "Ireland Sucks" written across his forehead, 4 angry looking men closing in on him]
O'Brady's plan backfired when it turned out that practical jokers were willing to spend more money than legitimate advertisers.
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I'm almost tempted to create an ebay alias like "the_antichrist" and outbid everyone else.
Just think of all the bible thumpers who will flip when this guy walks down the street with 666 tattooed on his forehead!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1 &item=5539052347/