Until recently, online auction sites such as eBay have been the usual marketplace for bargain hunters and thrift shoppers looking for cheap used or surplus products. But a new breed of sellers are now coming up with very unusual auctions on eBay.
Encouraged in part by the recent purchase by online casino GoldenPalace of a grilled cheese sandwich that has the image of Virgin Mary for $15,000 and on the tummy of a pregnant woman, sellers have started taking a second look at eBay’s Everything Else category, especially in the subcategories of Advertising Opportunities and Weird Stuff.
And not a few have been successful. Just last August 23, 2005, the casino paid $18,000 to shave a womans head and permanently tattoo the website of the popular online poker room, on her bare cranium.
The eBay seller, Molly Demers, will be wearing the casinos brand on the top and back of her bald head for one year.
Before her, a woman from Utah now known as “ForeheadGoldie” on eBay, was paid $10,000 to permanently tattoo their website address on a her forehead. Using eBays Buy It Now option, GoldenPalace won the privilege of placing a permanent ad tattoo...