GOLDEN PALACE, the shame and the stupidity part 2: baby-clothing for advertising

In the relatively short time since the Golden Palace baby name buying incident, Golden Palace has accomplished another trademark marketing gimmick, this time baby clothing for advertising purposes.

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??"

SOURCE: Golden palace events.

After some examination of the birth certificate of "Goldenpalacedotcom Sliverman", there were suggestions made at in the Casinomeister "Golden Palace babies" thread that it might be a fake. This remains to be seen.

However, this latest prank is most undeniably genuine: you can view both the Ebay action item and also a list of all the bids that took place prior to Golden Palace winning the day with a bid for $999.

There is no question that this happened. This was not a ruse to get media attention without the subsequent vilification for repugnant marketing practices by revealing that the claimed action never actually took place.

The most telling remark in the above article comes in the last paragraph:

"Furthermore, he is just a baby. He wont know what's going on, let alone that he is advertising an online casino."

It appears that Golden Palace consider new-born babies to be fair game for online gambling advertising, based on the theory that what they're unconscious of cannot hurt them.

Maybe the idea will catch on with cigarette manufacturers.

Or liquor merchants.

Post a Comment

May 2005 | June 2005 | July 2005 | September 2005 | October 2005 | November 2005 | December 2005 | January 2006 | February 2006 | March 2006 | April 2006 | May 2006 | August 2006 | October 2006 | January 2007 | February 2007 | March 2007 | May 2007 | June 2007 | July 2007 | January 2008 | February 2008 | March 2008 | April 2008 | June 2008 | July 2008 | September 2008 | October 2008 | December 2008 | January 2009 | February 2009 | March 2009 | May 2009 | June 2009 | July 2009 | August 2009 | September 2009 | October 2009 | November 2009 | December 2009 | January 2010 | February 2010 | March 2010 |