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Golden Palace Casino - Another Baby On BoardThis is the post on the Golden Palace Blog, word for word..
Baby On Board
Number one online casino GoldenPalace.com has done it again, getting another person to be a living, breathing advertisement for them. This time the billboard-person is a baby boy in Pennsylvania. His parents put an auction on ebay inviting a company to bid for the right to clothe the toddler in their logo and apparel for one month, and GP took them up on the offer. All it cost was $999.99.
During the month of July, the tot will have GP shirts, hats, shoes, bibs, and anything else they can get the company logo on- possibly even the stroller.
The ebay seller thinks this is a great idea. ?Now who doesn?t look at babies? We all stare and look at newborns when we see them out in public and say how cute they are so by putting your ad on our infant you know your ad will be looked at!?
The auctioneer also defends the act of selling her baby for marketing.
?We put on clothing everyday on ourselves and on our kids that have name brands/company logos on them and we advertise for them on a daily basis for free. So why not get paid to sport a company logo??
He or she does make a good point. Furthermore, he is just a baby. He wont know what?s going on, let alone that he is advertising an online casino. All he will know is that he?s the centre of attention. What more could a baby want?
Gamblog comment >>
Golden Palace Casino really are the pits. It's not even like they don't know it is wrong to advertise via a baby. They call it "shock advertising". If I got my way, they would be shut down and the powers that be at Golden Palace would be jailed for these stunts.
Posted at 12:54 PM, Wednesday, June 01, 2005