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Ebay Auctions its Own Stolen CSoTY Award
Smack writes "Ebay
didn't pick up their Cool Site of the Year
award (just like Slashdot). So someone else picked it up
for them, and now they're auctioning it
off on Ebay itself! The price is already up to $130.00. What beautiful irony..."
God bless the Internet. Now I'm beginning to wonder where my
CSoTY trophy ended up... Update: 02/03 03:34 by CT : Wired picked
up the story a little
bit ago. They don't know where our trophy is either *grin*
To whoever wins this one, put in on your mantle for a week, and then put it back up for bid on ebay, proceedes going to charity! Maybe we can keep this going on and on and on... With lots of money raise for charity. You know the publicity would be great for charity and ebay.
To eBay, advertise this in your comercials. You never know what ill show up on eBay. Like our own cool site of the year award that we forgot to pick up. It could be yours! There is no such thing as bad publicty, and this could be good for them.
PS, I'll forgive eBay if they close this auction and demand their award, but I think they are better off in this case pardoning anyone who holds the trophy for less then six months, and donates all proceededs from the sale to charity.
They mean exactly nothing, except for more hits for the awarding site (i.e. free advertising).
thats freakin great stuff. I would feel bad for ebay, but its basically thier own fault for not picking it up..
Interesting conflict of morality for Ebay. On the one hand, they claim they've got everything, and are impartial in regards to the sellers. On the other, what do you do when you know without a doubt that someone is a)selling (your) stolen merchandise or b)misrepresenting the merchandise they sell through you?