AN ATHENS woman has won a breast enlargement operation from the Cyprus based website -15minutesauction.com- the Mediterranean’s equivalent to the eBay auction site.
The Cyprus version of eBay offered bidders a breast enhancement operation to boost awareness of the new auction site catering for an estimated market of 250 million people in the Mediterranean. The auction, held over two weeks, started at two euros, attracting bids from as far a field as the US and Britain. The winning bid was snatched in the final moments by Athens-based Anastasia with a bid of 1,050 euro.
A spokesman for15minutesauction.com said: “It was an amazing response to the auction. Surprisingly a number of people bidding were men who, we guess, were
planning to surprise someone with a gift for Christmas or the New Year. The woman who won the auction has said she hopes to have the operation in Brussels in May next year.”
The ‘bid for bigger breasts’ auction is the brainchild of Paphos-based PRHq, which is run by ‘King of Spin’ Kizzi Nkwocha, who ran an auction last August for a date with a 30-year-old British woman living in Paphos.
The date with ‘Jezebel’ went for around £100 but few bids were received although the money went to charity.
This time, Nkowcha said his team sat down and asked themselves: “What was it that both men and women wanted, cars, houses? At first we weren’t sure but then decided everyone wants bigger boobs for Christmas, and the response proves it,” Nkwocha told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
Nkowcha said the auction for “bigger boobs” attracted a lot of attention from countries outside the Mediterranean. “Altogether, 114 people were involved in the bidding process, mostly men, but one woman from Greece put five euros more in the dying minutes of the bid to win it,” he said.
Regarding the male-dominated bidding process, he said: “It’s the strangest thing, but I guess men thought it would be a nice Christmas present.
The average price of such an operation is around 3,000 euros, more than double the 1,050 euro winning bid. Nkowcha’s company has agreed to pay the difference and also pay for her flight to Brussels.
So who is the lucky lady, Anastasia? “Well, all we know is she is definitely over 16 and that she sent us an email saying she was happy to accept the win,” he said.
Nkwocha launched the now-revamped auction site as an alternative to eBay, from which Cyprus and the Middle East are excluded. There was a huge marketplace in the region for an auction site, he said.
Nkwocha, 35, is a former journalist turned PR-guru and has been described by The Daily Telegraph as a PR “supremo” and by The Sun as “the King of spin”. His agency PRhq has represented clients as diverse as the King of Uganda to mistresses of President Clinton.
