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Pay to Communicate with Celebs

Submitted by: branchcut
Created: Jul 21, 2006, 1:38 pm

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A website where you can pay money to communicate with celebrities. For example you would register with the site and create a profile with photos and information about yourself, and for $75 you would be able to send a 300 word message and a link to your profile to Angelina Jolie and receive a personal response within 5 days, or receive a full refund. Or, you could pay $150 dollars to leave a 3 minute voice or video message to the lead singer of Radiohead, and receive a personal voice response within 3 business days. The model could be extended beyond celebrities to other high profile people, for example, CEO's of fortune 100 companies, famous scientists and politicians, and so on. As far as prices for messages, there are a few ways it could be done. Each celebrity could set his/her own prices roughly in line with how much they valued their time and how much they want to connect to their fanbase, or a more novel auction-based approach would let fans try to outbid eachother.

I thought of this idea when I was...

... wanted to send a message to a celebrity that I greatly admire and realized that it would be virtually impossible because I'm sure that celebrity does not give out his email. Even if he did, it would probably go unread or get marked as spam. I'm not willing to waste a lot of time trying to somehow track down a way to get a message through, which may fail in the end, but I would shell out some money as long as it was guaranteed my message would get through and I would get a response.

Comments Posted

CajunTechie Posted: July 26, 2006, 7:44 pm

Love the idea! Would use it myself!

Chuck_Norris Posted: July 28, 2006, 4:03 pm

Sounds good for the people who want to contact the celebs, but how do the celebs feel about it? How much money do you think they'd want to answer an email within 5 days if they already get a MOUNTAIN of fan mail. Me thinks they have better things to do that makes them a lot more money.

branchcut Posted: July 28, 2006, 4:32 pm

RE: Chuck Norris. I think the only way to answer that question would be to ask a celebrity .. and if the proposed service existed, that would actually be quite easy! But I agree with you, some won't find it worth their time, so not every celebrity would sign up for the service. All the old washed up celebs would join, because they've burnt through a lot of their money and are looking for new income streams. So would the wannabe's who need their ego fluffed up. Then you have celebs like Tom Cruise ...

Rizal Posted: May 4, 2007, 5:59 am

boring

Hello!

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