Susan the Neon Nurse ([info]neonnurse) wrote,
@ 2005-01-13 00:40:00
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Current mood: confused

Where's my Johnny Depp fans?
OK, here's an oddity I came across today:

Magzine supposedly signed by Johnny Depp going off at a seriously ridiculous low price

This is a charity auction. Or at least, the group is registered as a charity with eBay's MissionFish site. I don't know what is required of a group to be allowed to join that set-up. I mean, they COULD be an odd but real charity. When you click through to their About Me page, they say that all the items they have were sent to the various celebrities' agents for signing, and so while they trustingly believe the autographs are authentic, they can't swear for sure....

I honestly don't quite know what to think. If it's a scam, they are ludicrously bad at it. Look at the View Seller's Other Items link and you will see a string of pointless, useless auction titles. These items are also in completely wrong categories for what they are. So...is this a not-too-S-M-A-R-T person who honestly wants to do charity fundraising, or someone posing as a moron in order to suck people in?

Oh, and check out the Tee shirt signed by 53 celebrities

So what did they do, mail the shirt to 53 agents? Or did a few agents nicely run the shirt around to multiple clients?

I really don't know....


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[info]gryphons_lair
2005-01-13 01:56 pm UTC (link)
Their mission statement is vague to the point of uselessness. They claim to be funneling the procedes to "other" nonprofits, but they don't say which, except in one case where it's to benefit a Boy Scout Troop. (A Boy Scout Troop?!!?)

And WTF are they doing listing an autographed "newspaper insert" in the Bears/Boyd/Discontinued/Other category?

MissionFish apparently approved them, but I dunno... something just doesn't feel right here.

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[info]carn_carby
2005-01-13 03:17 pm UTC (link)
They spelled some of those names wrong. That..sets off some bells about whether it's legitimate or not. O_O

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[info]gryphons_lair
2005-01-13 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Uh, yeah, and not the more obscure ones, either.

Ellen DeGenous? Angelina Jolie? Bill Murrey? Bradd Pitt?

The grammar on their website is also wonky. Like something translated from another language by someone with less-than-total fluency in English.

And I'd be hesitant to buy anything from a seller of collectibles who misspelled "collectible" IN THEIR STORE NAME.

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