Money for nothin’ and chicks for free
November 22, 2006 |
Every once and awhile you hear about someone putting up a website asking for money. There was the Million Dollar Homepage, Smash My Viper, and of course Give Dan Money for No Good Reason. Well, a chick out in San Francisco has taken the idea and run with it.
Leah Culver decided to post a website asking for a new computer. Being a recent college graduate, and carrying all the debt that comes with that, Leah couldn’t afford to upgrade her old G3 iMac. As she says, she couldn’t even upgrade iTunes because her hardware was too old. So what did Leah do? She decided to sell ad space on the back of a MacBook Pro as a means to fund the computer. Leah sold ads at $150 a square inch to internet and Web 2.0 companies, saying “Don’t worry, your laser-etched ad will probably be around longer than your internet company!”
Not a bad idea if you ask me. I guess it just goes to show that it doesn’t hurt to ask.
