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Skype-a-Celeb

Thursday 23 February 2006

To cross sell its newly purchased Internet telephony service, eBay is auctioning 10 minute calls to celebs for charity.

Bids for a ten minute conversation with Penelope Cruz were at $560 at time of writing. It’s reminiscent of the 1997(?) One2One campaign featuring people like Kate Moss talking about who they would like ‘to have a One2One with’ (hers was Elvis). For our money, pretty much the best representation of what mobile communications really mean.

This too is a cute idea but surely eBay needs to hammer home that calls via Skype are … erm … free?

Via IDontLikeYouInThatWay.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: celebrity, Ebay, Skype

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