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Woman Sued Over Pregnant Stomach Ad Space(And yet here I, bkmarcus, have done so. I'm helping Local6.com spread their story and their name, and yet ... I await the cease-and-desist order...)
A pregnant woman in Roswell, Ga., is being sued over advertising space on her stomach, according to a Local 6 News report.
Elisa Harp offered the ad space on her belly this month on the eBay auction Web site. However, when the auction ended, Harp refused to offer her stomach to the highest bidder -- SunPoker.com.
Harp instead is giving her stomach space to The Golden Palace Casino.
"The highest bidder at first was SunPoker.com but I decided after the auction ended not to go with them and decided to go with The Golden Palace Casino," Harp said.
"I guess his feeling was that it was binding that you went with them the highest bidder," the reporter said.
"No, even if I was selling T-shirts or anything else on eBay, as a seller, I have the right to decide who I want to sell to."Local 6 News reported that according to the auction site's rules, once bidding ends, a product must go to the highest bidder and that the auction is a binding contract."
EBay did not have a response.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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1 Comments:
This seems like a "no-brainer." You have to sign-off on Ebay's "rules" before you can even post an auction item. Isn't this a contract of sorts, agreeing to terms?
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