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Golden Palace Casino eBay Power Bidders
by acdickson
The auctions for the naming rights to the Boston Fleet Center are over. If you read my last entry you saw I made some predictions. I was right on about half of it. The first round of auctions went just as I expected, started strong with the second non-Celtic game hitting the high mark, then gradually decreasing. The interesting thing is that the first couple auctions of the second round went for way too much, while the very last auction went for very little. A bunch of people evidently got outbid on the first round, fearing they'd lose out entirely, they bid up the first couple of the second batch. But whoever bide their time and held off for the last auction got the best deal.
But the big auction was the one and only day to have your name on the Fleet Center during a Celtic game. Not only is a Celtic game cooler than Disney on Ice, but you get television coverage of something being broadcast from an arena with your name. Not bad for $35,000. Who won it? Golden Palace Casino.
Does that name ring a bell? It should. They also won the grilled chesse sandwich with the Virgin Mary burn mark for $24,000. What's more they paid over $10,000 for a bumper sticker to help cover medical costs for a young boy suffering from cancer and (just in case you're getting teary eyed) $4,000 for the advertisement rights to the bellies of not one but TWO pregnant woman. Yes, there are woman out there who will put a corporate logo on thier bare bellies for the final month of thier pregnancy. For better or for worse, they sell that space on eBay. And when Golden Palace wins, they offer to fly them to sporting events like the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500 to make sure that belly gets seen.
What is Golden Palace Casino? An online gambling website that is using their entire $200,000 marketing budget to bid on eBay "experiences" like these. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Type eBay into Google News and half of the articles will mention Golden Palace Casino. In fact, one of the news items I came across is about how another online gambling site is suing one of the recently pregnant woman because even though they outbid Golden Palace for her belly ad space, she sold it to Golden Palace. Why? GPC offered to make her a spokeswoman. That should be familiar as well. They hired the woman who auctioned off the grilled chesse with a burn mark of the Virgin Mary to travel around the country in a tour bus and preach the good luck of the grilled cheese sandwich.
Ethically, you may take exception with Golden Palace. But they have taken eBay bidding and winning to a wholly new place. AC can only stand back reverentially, and hope he thinks up something he can get them to bid on.
Isn't Golden Palace Casino the one that is spamming the hell out of the Urbanhonking blogs?
Talk to you soon - a few things about your visit, including but not limited to a Croatian man who thinks he's the sexiest man alive and sings like Tom Jones.
Posted by: Chas at February 19, 2005 10:06 AM