A cash-strapped New Zealander is auctioning off the
chance to put a tattoo on her derriere so she can pay her
bills.
Wellington woman Tina Beznec, 23, says she needs the money after
being made redundant twice in the past year.
She set up an online auction under the title "Your Tattoo on my
Bum" and within 24 hours bidding had reached NZ$10,250 (US$8,135)
while another three people have followed suit with auctions
offering body parts to be tattooed.
"You might think I am crazy for doing this! But yes, the winner
of the auction gets anything they like tattooed on my bum!" Beznec
said in her auction notice.
She said 20 percent of the winning bid would go to charity "and
the rest will go to me, I deserve it, I have been made redundant
twice over the past year."
The tattoo would be 9x9 centimetres (3.5x3.5 inches), it could
be on either cheek and could be something personal or "a business
promotion" she said.
"The way I see it is it's going to be on my bum and it is
something I can look back on in the future and remember this point
in my life," she told the Stuff.co.nz website.
In a rival auction, a woman who identified herself as "Marie"
said she decided to copy Beznec's money-raising scheme because "I'm
a single Mum struggling just to pay the bills".
S. J. Parker said he was auctioning his backside for a tattoo
because "I was laid off myself at the end of the year so have
mounting bills. I've been offered a job teaching overseas shortly
so got to get that airfare somehow."