Pregnant bellies auctioned as ad space on eBay

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A St. Louis baby's birth was just sponsored by a Web company that will place video clips of the delivery on its Web site. In other eBay transactions, women have accepted payment to let a casino tattoo its logo on their pregnant bellies.

(WOMENSENEWS)--Going once . . . Going twice . . . Sold for $1,000, sponsorship rights to the live birth on March 18 of one baby girl!

A month ago, in St. Louis, 21-year-old Asia Francis sold the rights to sponsor the birth of her first child to Globat LLC, a Los Angeles-based Web hosting company.

Globat president and CEO Ben R. Neumann came across Francis' offer at the online auction site, eBay, and made the winning bid of $1,000.
In return, Francis agreed to wear Globat.com T-shirts whenever she stepped out of her home before her delivery and to sport a temporary tattoo of the company's red-and-black logo on her swollen belly.

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