Brave New Ads: Body Billboards
Talking To Sellers Who Auctioned Body Space To Advertisers
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Expectant mother Amber Rainey was paid $4,000 for her billboard space. (CBS)
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Courtney Van Dunk (CBS)
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Her advertisement said "Advertising space on a Gorgeous Female Body."
"You're getting aggressive here," Mason notes.
"Well, you have to be able to sell yourself, that's what its all about," Van Dunk says.
Van Dunk notes that she will get noticed everywhere I go.
"I'm gonna have fun this summer," she says. "So basically wherever I go the ad will too."
OK, don't laugh.
"An hour after I had the auction posted I had a bid for $2,000," Van Dunk.
You really think there's a sizeable market for it?
"I do. I really do," she said.
When Omaha, Nebraska student Andrew Fisher auctions off his forehead on eBay, a company that makes snoring pills bought it for $37, 375.
Even Fisher was amazed by that.
"Wow, I mean wow," Fisher said.
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