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Post number 9392

betobeto — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:29:29 -0800

Buy me for $2,595,030.00 So I guess I fit on the "bargain" category... or what? Looks like "money changes everything" isn't just a Cyndi Lauper song title anymore.

By: wsfinkel

wsfinkel — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:40:26 -0800

As a unemployed new college grad I'm only worth $1.7 million, but I would settle for $1.5 mill from a woman worth over $2.5 mill.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:41:19 -0800

$2,046,960.00. And I will take a check, so long as you have two forms of ID.

By: kristin

kristin — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:46:03 -0800

I am worth $2,543,406.00. I went back and disovered that if I lost 35 lbs, I would be worth several hundred thousand more, but if I made $100 000 a year more than I do now, that only boosts my worth by about $50 000. How warped is that?

By: nicolotesla

nicolotesla — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:46:13 -0800

This is one of the most ingenious ways that I have ever seen to get people to hand over very sensitive demographic information for free. Marketing genius. Unbelievable. Check out their privacy policy: We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. Our site's surveys require users to give us contact information (like email address) and demographic information (like their age or education level). The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. We may display on our web sites information about our users which is not individually identifiable, for example their height, weight or income level. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. In short, we keep your info and we do whatever we darn well feel like with it. Awesome.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:47:01 -0800

$1,720,740.00. located in the "last chance bin" on your way to checkout.

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:47:04 -0800

Think of all the great personal info they now have associated with your IP address. Probably dropped a cookie in the jar too.

By: pascal

pascal — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:47:17 -0800

Hmm... you give all that information, including your e-mail address and a rating of how often you visit porn sites, and you don't smell any kind of rat at all?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:47:25 -0800

disovered that if I lost 35 lbs, I would be worth several hundred thousand more, but if I made $100 000 a year more than I do now, that only boosts my worth by about $50 000 you fat pig!

By: briank

briank — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:48:03 -0800

$2,155,980.00 PayPal is accepted. Thank you and goodnight.

By: pascal

pascal — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:48:56 -0800

Beaten to the punch. Oh well, great minds think alike I guess.

By: kristin

kristin — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:58:18 -0800

You know you can always visit these sites using anonymizer and a yahoo email addie. I did. :)

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:01:04 -0800

$2,067,298.00

By: dagny

dagny — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:17:40 -0800

$2,316,530.00 (and I got that result sent to my anonymized Hotmail account. Muhaha)

By: dogwelder

dogwelder — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:20:38 -0800

$2,209,730.00. Used a junk hotmail address and I'm on dialup so the IP won't do 'em any good. I haven't checked for a cookie, but that's what Cookie Wall is for.

By: acridrabbit

acridrabbit — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:21:33 -0800

And women are worth, on average, 88 cents for every $1 of a man's worth. Figures. If you gave your email address, you might want to go back and opt-out. 'Cause I agree that this is a potentially horrifying marketing scam.

By: metaxa

metaxa — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:22:12 -0800

I must be worthless, being that I don't reside in either the US or Canada..... *sigh*

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:24:50 -0800

This worth is entirely artificial. I'd be much more interested in the actual market price for a given individual, ie. how much someone would actually be willing to pay to own that person.

By: inviolable

inviolable — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:31:26 -0800

$2,162,938.00. Or just 108,201 monthly installments of just $19.99.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:32:45 -0800

Hmph. A 200 IQ and a 14" penis just doesn't go as far as it used to these days...

By: bshort

bshort — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:38:00 -0800

$2,809,818.00

By: jennaratrix

jennaratrix — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:55:39 -0800

$2,131,906.00. It's gotta be because of the hypoglycemia. Dammit! acidrabbit: thanks for the opt-out link.

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:00:44 -0800

$1,960,760.00. I deliberately ran it a few times with different races selected.. same price each time. Why bother asking the question?

By: mapalm

mapalm — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:36 -0800

"why bother" on the race question...? marketing (see above)

By: bradth27

bradth27 — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:06:07 -0800

$2.75. AND I come with severe mental disorders. Anyone?

By: dchase

dchase — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:08:19 -0800

Hmm, giving demo data and an e-mail address to "humanforsale.com". Is it a scam, or performance art?

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:10:39 -0800

No, the interface was decent. It can't be art.

By: TimTypeZed

TimTypeZed — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:19:16 -0800

There's an article in the latest issue of Harpers detailing how insurance adjusters negotiate a person's worth in determining a settlement for wrongful death suits. Should you die horrendously by the neglect of some soulless corporation your worth will be decided on basically the same scale that determined your worth in high school. Tall white men with beautiful but not too beautiful wives, the average couple kids, suburban addresses and respectable titles on the business cards are worth the most. Athletic, outdoorsy, extroverted people are worth considerably more than bookish introverted people. Any scandal, strange obsessions or hobbies will seriously undermine your value as a human being.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:25:08 -0800

FYI - some digging I've done *does* connect this back to a marketing firm. I'm still working out the details, but I can post them when they're organized, if you like.

By: willnot

willnot — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:38:37 -0800

First, I have to agree. This is one of the greatest marketing ideas ever. Looks like the domain is owned by somebody that claims his company name is Mindslurp. Side note and really the point of the post, I love that when you go to Mindslurp.com, their privacy policy comes back 404. By the way, it doesn't look like the same company owns both sights. The owner of Mindslurp.com did deliberately provide bogus information though, so there's no guarantee they aren't the same.

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:43:48 -0800

The privacy policy on this site doesn't seem any more or less invasive than any I've ever seen on a joke "poll" site (thespark.com, for instance). All sites keep track of IP addresses to figure out unique visits each day. And "aggregate" information just lets them put up silly jokes like the average penis size. Lighten up, people: just use a hotmail account or something, go back when you're done and Opt-Out, and delete their cookie if they leave one.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:50:54 -0800

Actually, willnot, you have to dig a lot more than that. And they do link back to the same company. Basically, it looks like humanforsale.com is run by Carstens Amaral, essentially a web-marketing firm. Oh, and Ryan Fox, who registered humanforsale.com, looks to be the same person as Ryan Carstens... But maybe I'm reading too much into things. :-) And yeah, bcwinters, it's not a big deal, but it's nice to know where the information might be going.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:46:31 -0800

I was only worth 2,714,910.00 Hopefully, with all these emails, they'll recoup the costs by selling a zillion "1,000,000 working emails on a CDROM!" to spammers.

By: headspace

headspace — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:51:42 -0800

$1,507,254.00, according to the marketing spam sent directly to my e-mail box for quizzes, questionnaires and spam. Then I immediately opted out. Betcha I still get (extra) spam at the spamaddy.

By: galachef55

galachef55 — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:53:15 -0800

$1,877,782.00... Is it because I live in Ontario, or is this figure in Canadian dollars?

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:05:20 -0800

12 Pesos. Damn, that's cold.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:21:52 -0800

a dollar threeightynine. imagine the scores from this info if even somewhat valid. probably russian mob. "lev, louk ah diz one, shez got three breast and time share in key biscane"

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:06:51 -0800

You are worth exactly: $2,487,292.00 I like the EXACTLY bit. that way i don't have to try and get a second opinion. my first score was lower, but then i popped over to the handy free iqtest online and found i was higher than my estimate, and that bumped up my "worth" quite a bit. Well, i also knocked 5 lbs off of my weight, added another level of income and lied about cavaties. 'cause they are filled, they shouldn't count, they should--in fact--count as an tenant improvement or something.... Good thing i have all of these great online tests and such to give me self esteem. Next i should take a Purtiy Test so i can feel like i'm a sexy bastard who doesn't spend all his time in front of a computer. oh wait, i am a sexy bastard who doesn't spend all his time in front of a computer. hurray!

By: kindall

kindall — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:13:23 -0800

A mere $1,839,240.00. *sigh*

By: tamim

tamim — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:15:46 -0800

$2,072,860.00 Did they post how these "worth" are calculated based on the questionnaire?

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:19:37 -0800

$1,828,560.00 :o(

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:39:05 -0800

lol... that IQ test is complete bunk. 152? Please. I eat standardized tests for breakfast, and this is no exception. I'm still waiting for the test that will accurately peg me at "average."

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:59:50 -0800

but doesn't scoring 152 make you want to pay the $10 to see the full analysis? heh. I thought it was a bit fishy also, but i wanted something--you know--Offical, so i wouldn't have to lie like all they 200IQ people on the most expensive list. I'll put it on my biz-cards now: thephil estimated worth $2.4 million 151 IQ cavaties, None. Don't call me, I'll call you.

By: davehat

davehat — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:40:24 -0800

Well, I've been away a while sulking and now I'm back for one post only to let you all know I'm worth $2,060,170.00 Still, it doesn't make up for the fact that I lost my job last week and I have been dumped on the wrong side of the planet with no ticket home... Bollocks. See you all again when I have realised some of my inherrant capital. Anyone want to buy a limb or two? I'll take $1,000,000 for an arm and a leg. A fair price, I feel, for a figure of speech

By: acridrabbit

acridrabbit — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:58:30 -0800

One question, seriously. Is this supposed to be one's earning potential in one's lifetime? Or what? I'm really curious. Is this just our culture's material fixation, that we must assign material value to a person? I also must point out that no one has justified or countered the fact that women are "valued" less in this site's estimation. If I read our culture right, these days, women being bought and sold command a higher price than do men. So if this were really about people for sale, I'd think their algorithms might be different. Unless they're talking about earning potential.

By: solistrato

solistrato — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:15:57 -0800

But what is our physical body worth? I mean, thee's gotta be minerals and stuff, right? Who wants mining rights on me? ... Well, there's a question that can be taken horribly wrong...

By: smich

smich — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:59:09 -0800

There's an article in the August issue of Harper's called "Working Stiffs: The necessary parasites of capitalism," about how insurance adjustors calculate a person's worth after his/her death. [sorry, no link to the article] Apparently things like going to church, calling your parents regularly, and being athletic or outdoorsy get you big points in the end. But people who'd rather read than go rock-climbing aren't worth very much. Very interesting article.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:14:51 -0800

lol... that IQ test is complete bunk Hrmmm - that online IQtest thing did bump me up 9 points (to a gratifyingly elevated number - I'd like to thank the Academy...) from my results way back when I was a problem child, and I have ingested a lot of harmful substances since then.... On second though, I think I will go with the "I's'a gettin suh-marter!" theory. Compensates somewhat for the hairy ears and incipient man-boobs.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:34:53 -0800

People, don't try to read into this thing. It's a clever spammer's email-harvester. Just like that "put your face close to the monitor and we will display your face" one (which then shows you a picture of a monkey... Nothing more... When will people learn?

By: syzygy

syzygy — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:32:38 -0800

165 on the IQ test, same score I got on the same test a couple of years ago. What a load of bs... On a reassuring note (perhaps), they claim to not find your info after you opt out. Of course, that's no guarantee that they actually deleted it. I used my full name, provided my home address and phone number, and used my work email account to get the results. See, I told you that IQ test was bunk. (j/k - did it all anonymously). I was worth over $2MM, but I can't recall the exact number. More spam for one of my many junk hotmail accounts.