Iowa students hook up as prom dates through eBay auction
Posted: Monday, March 21, 2005
LA PORTE CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Stu Hemesath has earned $29.95 as a prom date.
The Union High School senior from La Porte City auctioned himself off as a date on the Internet auction site eBay last Thursday.
He will accompany Rachel Kay, 17, a Cedar Falls high school student, to the prom. The two say they have never met.
Hemesath said the idea just came to him as he was "thinking about proms and stuff."
"I came to school with a thought in my head, and I told my friends," he said. "They thought it was the coolest thing in the world, so I decided to go for it."
Hemesath posted pictures of himself and a description to secure some bids -- which came from people as far away as Alaska.
"That's pretty far," he said. "She was really interested. She showed me her picture, but it was just too far away for it to be a possibility."
Hemesath wasn't shy about his description, saying he's 5 feet 10 inches tall, 150 pounds, popular and a wrestler. He added: "I have a lot of girls telling me I'm pretty hot."
He said some people didn't like the idea of a prom date being auctioned on the Internet site.
"Some people just don't like it," he said. "You can say anything you want over the Internet, and they're not shy with their words."
Kay said she also got a few pieces of negative mail.
"Some people think it's wrong just that it's morally wrong to support him selling himself," she said.
Kay said she e-mailed Hemesath her phone number so that they could get to know each other before the big day.
She said she made her bid in an attempt to make an ex-boyfriend jealous.
"I didn't think I'd actually win, I was just playing around," she said. "He looks like a pretty nice guy. I thought his write-up was pretty funny. He says he's a wrestler, so that's good."
The Union High School senior from La Porte City auctioned himself off as a date on the Internet auction site eBay last Thursday.
He will accompany Rachel Kay, 17, a Cedar Falls high school student, to the prom. The two say they have never met.
Hemesath said the idea just came to him as he was "thinking about proms and stuff."
"I came to school with a thought in my head, and I told my friends," he said. "They thought it was the coolest thing in the world, so I decided to go for it."
Hemesath posted pictures of himself and a description to secure some bids -- which came from people as far away as Alaska.
"That's pretty far," he said. "She was really interested. She showed me her picture, but it was just too far away for it to be a possibility."
Hemesath wasn't shy about his description, saying he's 5 feet 10 inches tall, 150 pounds, popular and a wrestler. He added: "I have a lot of girls telling me I'm pretty hot."
He said some people didn't like the idea of a prom date being auctioned on the Internet site.
"Some people just don't like it," he said. "You can say anything you want over the Internet, and they're not shy with their words."
Kay said she also got a few pieces of negative mail.
"Some people think it's wrong just that it's morally wrong to support him selling himself," she said.
Kay said she e-mailed Hemesath her phone number so that they could get to know each other before the big day.
She said she made her bid in an attempt to make an ex-boyfriend jealous.
"I didn't think I'd actually win, I was just playing around," she said. "He looks like a pretty nice guy. I thought his write-up was pretty funny. He says he's a wrestler, so that's good."
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