Where did a mom try to sell a baby naming rights for a fifth time?”
An unemployed Arkansas woman trying to sell the naming rights to her seventh child on eBay is hoping her fifth try is a charm. Lavonne Drummond, 36, says the bidding hit $26,100 before eBay removed her most recent auction, her fourth, on Monday. That’s considerably more than the $15,000 she says she lost when eBay shut down her first auction because the company ruled the mother of six was soliciting donations. She got no bids on her second auction, which eBay took down quickly due to a myriad of reasons. And her third unsuccessful auction, posted on Aug. 10, garnered a top bid of $510.99, she said, but that, too, was shut down because an actual “item” was not offered for sale. But Drummond, of Smackover, Ark., is very persistent — not to mention broke and hoping to pay her bills. She posted the auction yet again, and this time, she said, representatives of eBay “said they pulled it down in error. They just apologized and told me they can’t help me in any way. They just told me to re-li
