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A Utah woman has become the latest asset in online gambling outfit GoldenPalace.com's eBay preposterous purchase portfolio after accepting $15,000 dollars to have the casino's name permanently tattooed on her forehead.
- Woman auctions forehead for tattoo for $10,000 Friday, July 1, 2005 9:46 a.m. SALT LAKE CITY - For $10,000, Kari Smith's forehead was tattooed with 'GoldenPalace.com,' the Web address of a.
- Cover Up: Karolyne Smith, now Williams, sold ad space on her forehead so she could finance her child's schooling. GoldenPalace.com paid her $10,000 to ink their logo above her eyebrows.
Karolyne Smith joins the Virgin Mary toasted cheese sandwich and other assorted tat for which Golden Palace has shelled out gambling punters' hard-lost cash.
The lady who tattooed GoldenPalace.com on her forehead is inevitably mentioned (she lives in her dad's basement now, apparently), and even she was outdone by some Alaskan guy who not only got a. 👉 Subscribe for new episodes! The Most Realistic Show on YouTube.Episode 1 (Headshave for money) 2 (Tattoo on Forehead.
Back in February, an amply-endowed Glaswegian lass trousered ÂŁ422 to bear a temporary Golden Palace tattoo on her heaving cleavage. All good clean fun, we noted at the time.
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But Karolyne Smith is altogether another matter. She's not the first case of someone offering their body for permanent advertising - back in 2002, a hard-up eBayer whipped out his todger in an attempt to secure a penile sponsorship deal. In that case, however, the worst that could come of it is that the chap's long-suffering girlfriend would have to have GoldenPalace.com rammed down her throat a couple of times a month.
Smith, on the other hand, now has a url plastered across her face. She claims that she did it to raise funds for her son's private education, enthusing: 'I really want to do this. To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million. I only live once, and I'm doing it for my son ... It's a small sacrifice to build a better future for my son.'
No it isn't a small sacrifice - it's a bloody daft thing to do for $15k and raises the question as to whether Smith is not a couple of bids short of a auction. To its credit, the tattoo parlour which did the dirty deed - SI TATTOOING in Salt Lake City - reportedly spent seven hours trying to talk her out of it. Well, sort of to its credit, because it went ahead and tattooed the silly woman anyway, but it's the thought that counts...
The Golden Palace take on this, the literally unacceptable face of capitalism, is as follows: 'I think this kind of advertising will become increasingly popular as time goes on. It is a perfect way to get attention amid the clutter of advertising that people see every second of every day. Conventional forms of marketing just don't cut it anymore. To get people's attention, you have to stand out from the crowd. In light of Karolyne's story and her intentions to improve her son's education, we have given her additional $5,000 on top of the $10,000 spent on the auction.'
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Ah, Gawd bless yer philanthropic cotton socks, GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe. And now go away and consider whether allowing cash-strapped mums to be permanently disfigured is a legitimate way to promote your product. If the answer is yes, here are a few further suggestions from the Vulture Central Strategy Boutique:
- GoldenPalace.com branded Papacy. If Benny 16 doesn't fancy getting permanently tattooed up, then what about a huge banner fluttering above any Papal address in St Peter's Square reading: 'The Catholic Church and Golden Palace: Proud purveyors of the Virgin Mary toasted cheese sandwich'?
- GoldenPalace.com branded t-shirts for death row prisoners. Should prove particularly provocative in Florida, especially if url is preceded by 'Frying tonight courtesy of...' in big black letters.
- GoldenPalace.com branded vibrating panties. Especially effective at delivering your brand to astounded paramedics.
- GoldenPalace.com branded Iraqi insurgents - the ideal way to get your message across with a bang.
- GoldenPalace.com branded overproof white rum - the only known antidote to Golden Palace face tattooing stories.
Competition
Can you think of a better way for GoldenPalace.com to increase its brand frontage? Send your suggestions to me right here (mark the subject as: Golden Palace) before close of play (5pm-ish GMT) next Friday, 8 July and we'll reprint the best the following week. There may also be a few Reg goodies for outstanding contributions. ®
Rules
- Not open to employees or management of GoldenPalace.com.
- Not open to anyone with a tattoo on their face.
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The subtitle of this post should be: “Online Casino Strikes Again.”
Woman Tattoos Web Address on Forehead (CNN)
For $10,000, Kari Smith has gone ahead and had her forehead tattooed with the Web address of a gambling site.
Smith, 30, who sold her unusual advertising space on eBay, said the money will give her 11-year-old son a private education, which she believes he needs after falling behind in school.
“For the all the sacrifices everyone makes, this is a very small one,” she said. “It’s a small sacrifice to build a better future for my son,” she said.
“To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million. I only live once, and I’m doing it for my son,” she said.
Tattoo artist Don Brouse said he and his staff spent nearly seven hours Wednesday trying to talk Smith out of putting “GOLDENPALACE.COM” above her face. When he did go through with it, he kept the inch-tall letters close to her hairline, where bangs or a hat could provide some cover.
In 2001, Golden Palace famously bought ad space on Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins’s back during his classic showdown against Puerto Rican pugillist Felix Trinidad.
Hopkins subsequently used the $100,000 fee to wager on himself. He was a +350 underdog — and he won.
(Thanks for Joe Gandelman for the pointer.)