Eyore
07-05-2005, 10:04 AM
This is just crazy to me.
http://www.4utah.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=58392203-DE9D-4F5C-A80B-F8807CDADE69
(ABC 4 News)-- Just when you think you have heard it all, here is another unusual Ebay story -- this one with a close to home connection.
Kari Smith recently auctioned off a very visible part of her body, to be used as advertising space. And the prime piece of real estate in this case... is her forehead.
Smith decided to sell her forehead as ad space, in order to send her young son to private school. So she listed her forehead on Ebay, and it wasn't long before she had a winning bidder.
GoldenPalace.com purchased the rights to Kari's forehead, and decided to have the company name tattooed there.
"We're always looking for ordinary people doing extraordinary things," said Jon Wolf of GoldenPalace.com. "And this is definitely an extraordinary thing that she's doing."
Despite the unusual idea, Kari's boyfriend doesn't see anything wrong with it.
"I thought it was neat when she told me she wanted to do it," he said.
After enduring several minutes in the tattoo parlor chair, and the buzz of the needle, Kari says the whole idea was worth it.
"I think it's going to be a good thing," she said. "I'm going to be happy with what I've got."
By the way, the tattoo on Kari's head is permanent. The final price GoldenPalace paid for her forehead space: $10,000.
It is believed that Kari is the first person ever to have a permanent tattoo scrawled on her head for the purpose of advertising.
http://www.4utah.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=58392203-DE9D-4F5C-A80B-F8807CDADE69
(ABC 4 News)-- Just when you think you have heard it all, here is another unusual Ebay story -- this one with a close to home connection.
Kari Smith recently auctioned off a very visible part of her body, to be used as advertising space. And the prime piece of real estate in this case... is her forehead.
Smith decided to sell her forehead as ad space, in order to send her young son to private school. So she listed her forehead on Ebay, and it wasn't long before she had a winning bidder.
GoldenPalace.com purchased the rights to Kari's forehead, and decided to have the company name tattooed there.
"We're always looking for ordinary people doing extraordinary things," said Jon Wolf of GoldenPalace.com. "And this is definitely an extraordinary thing that she's doing."
Despite the unusual idea, Kari's boyfriend doesn't see anything wrong with it.
"I thought it was neat when she told me she wanted to do it," he said.
After enduring several minutes in the tattoo parlor chair, and the buzz of the needle, Kari says the whole idea was worth it.
"I think it's going to be a good thing," she said. "I'm going to be happy with what I've got."
By the way, the tattoo on Kari's head is permanent. The final price GoldenPalace paid for her forehead space: $10,000.
It is believed that Kari is the first person ever to have a permanent tattoo scrawled on her head for the purpose of advertising.