Post subject: Man Sells Forehead Ad Space To Company For $37,375
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:44 am
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OMAHA, Neb. Jan 25, 2005 — A Web-page designer who auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space is letting it go to his head.
Andrew Fischer, 20, of Omaha, who put his forehead for sale on eBay as advertising space, received $37,375 on Friday to advertise the snoring remedy, SnoreStop.
Fischer will display the SnoreStop logo on his forehead for one month.
"I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word," SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said.
"People will always comment on something out of the ordinary," Fischer said in his sales pitch. "People like weird."
But there were limits: He refused from the outset to be the conduit for any message or product deemed tasteless or unacceptable in traditional advertising formats.
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Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Post subject: Re: Man Sells Forehead Ad Space To Company For $37,375
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:48 am
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glorified_version wrote:
The question is, would you or wouldn't you?
hmmm.
I would.
But that doesn't mean I could actually, mentally, go through with it. I wouldn't want to leave the house! Maybe if I could go somewhere where no-one knew me for that month.
But, yes I would. It would pay for my overseas trip and then some
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I can't say that no amount of money would persuade me, but it would be an amount nobody in their right mind would pay me for one month of forehead advertising. A hell of a lot more than 37,000. I kinda figured something like this would happen once boxers started advertising on their backs.
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It was actually a really good idea - not only do they get advertising from the people that see him, but because it was such a unique idea, they get advertising from all of the people that post the story on messages boards, news sites, etc.
That said, if anyone else tries it, it probably won't (or shouldn't) be worth as much because it isn't as big of a news story anymore.
PS I remember hearing about this when it first started and the highest bid was just over $300
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stonecrest wrote:
That said, if anyone else tries it, it probably won't (or shouldn't) be worth as much because it isn't as big of a news story anymore.
Exactly.
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Hinny wrote:
vacatetheword wrote:
stonecrest wrote:
That said, if anyone else tries it, it probably won't (or shouldn't) be worth as much because it isn't as big of a news story anymore.
Exactly.
I'd still do it for... let's see... $2000 bucks.
We should start a pool for the cash.
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Hinny wrote:
That's fine. I'll just have a combover over my forehead.
Pretty sure the contract would stipulate against that kind of thing.
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