quarta-feira, março 09, 2005: It's an Ad, Ad World

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Yesterday, a former stripper sold one of her removed breast implants on eBay for over $16,000. EBay has always had its share of strange auctions. The company who bought the grilled-cheese sandwich with an image of the Virgin Mary on it was the same one that bought the implant.

What alarms me more than people selling strange objects was the people selling themselves. It started when Andrew Fischer auctioned his forehead off as ad-space for a month, and got over $37,000. Since then, there have been a slew of opportunists with similar schemes. One woman sold her pregnant belly as a billboard for $4,000. And currently a 475 pound man is selling his 8XL sized shirts as space for advertising.
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