I am very happy to discover that the ic3 has a new banner, I’m fairly sure it was not there when I went looking for how to link to them in the past, so I would like to express gratitude to whoever it was at the ic3 that decided to create a banner for them. Way to go! Very nice looking banner too, don’t you think?
I would share the e-mail that I got the other day as usual, but it is on the desktop computer and I am posting this from my laptop. What I got was a e-mail saying it was from Amazon and that they had run their payment schedule but there was a problem and they could not pay me what they owed me. OOps!
The e-mail encouraged me to log into a specific page and update my information quickly so that I could be paid what they owe me. Now, had I not been the most paranoid pf people I might have been tempted to fall for this one, save for one small technical detail - Amazon does not owe me any money!
Sure I have a Amazon affiliate account, but I have not yet reached the minimum payout point for it. I of course immediately sent the scam to Amazon’s scam reporting department - which I will post an e-mail for here in the sidebar the next time I am thinking about it and on the computer that has it on it.
In the wake of the recent auction of a dirty snowbank from the front yard of a Canadian man’s home on eBay, I am left with a few thoughts. First and foremost was that I should start auctioning off snow myself. I have plenty of it, why not? Well, there just seems to be something about selling people snow that seems shady to me, so I guess it’s not in my near future as a way to make millions. Although if I could sell it for just $1 a cup full I could quickly make millions.
So, what else did that auction make me think of? “Just how many stupid auctions are there out there?” I had to go looking, and sure enough there are a few of them. I then, of course, thought of this website - How Stupid Do They Think I Am? - and while these auctions have absolutely nothing to do with scamming people - at least I hope they don’t have anything to do with that, there is a level of confusion associated with the auctions that makes you scratch your head and wonder why anyone would put *THAT* up for auction, and more importantly, why would anyone buy it?
So, I am going to expand How Stupid Do They Think I Am? a little bit into the realm of stupid online auctions. I am not intending any insult to those who began these auctions, nor to those who have actually bid on and won the auctions, I am just trying to share some of the more far out auctions that have been online over the years and offer my point of view on them, giving others a chance to see what kinds of things are being auctioned off and maybe send a few more serious bidders to the sellers. (Please, don’t go bid on any of these things still on sale unless you are serious about it, we are not trying to give people a place to act stupid themselves, we are offering up information on strange and odd auctions and this is the only site I have that it really fits on. Thank you.)
So, now I just need to decide if I will be making a new category and listing them on the blog, or creating a separate blog or dedicating pages to the auctions…. I’m leaning toward just making a category in here and posting them in the main How Stupid Do They Think I Am? blog.
