Fake bids on little girls tsunami fundraiser!

[Frank the Tank]

shame on you!

From my local paper. Who the hell would do this to a little girl trying to help out? Unreal. Oh well, she still raised $1600 for the relief effort. Good for her.

[moon]

What would the point be to put in fake bids if not to just be a jerk and I see no point in being a jerk to a little girl trying to help out the victims of a horrible natural disaster.

[Table 5]

Now what has she learned from this? People lie and cheat and screw people around. That's horrible.

I dunno about you guys, but IMO that's still a pretty credible lesson. Life isn't all peachy-keen, and kids need to learn that sooner or later. If all we teach our kids are positive lessons, than we will have a pretty gullible generation on our hands.

Kudos to her for the gesture though. It was very thoughtful.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally posted by Table 5@Jan 13 2005, 08:12 PM

I dunno about you guys, but IMO that's still a pretty credible lesson. Life isn't all peachy-keen, and kids need to learn that sooner or later. If all we teach our kids are positive lessons, than we will have a pretty gullible generation on our hands.

Kudos to her for the gesture though. It was very thoughtful.

I somewhat agree with you that it is still a credible lesson. I guess it was hard for me to take because she was on our local news the other night and she is SO cute.

[moon]

MAybe she could learn the lesson when she is a little older or when she is not trying to do a selfless act like she is.

She will have to learn that people lie and cheat but it would be nice if she didn;t while doing what she is doing.

[BlackArcher101]

Somehow I really doubt it was her idea to put it on ebay, and that her heart was broken. If I was 6, raising $1600 wouldn't have broken my heart, heck, raising $50 selling chocolates was pretty damn good.

Me thinks her parents/media blew it out of proportion. The 6 year old is probably sitting in her room playing with dolls not knowing what's really going on.

Nevertheless, I don't see the point in putting fake bids on an auction like that. However, it's EBay, happens all the time.

[Incinerator]

Originally posted by BlackArcher101@Jan 13 2005, 09:28 PM
Somehow I really doubt it was her idea to put it on ebay, and that her heart was broken. If I was 6, raising $1600 wouldn't have broken my heart, heck, raising $50 selling chocolates was pretty damn good.

Me thinks her parents/media blew it out of proportion. The 6 year old is probably sitting in her room playing with dolls not knowing what's really going on.

Nevertheless, I don't see the point in putting fake bids on an auction like that. However, it's EBay, happens all the time.

sure that could be true but that's still a pretty mean thing to do (the fake bids)