How Stupid Do They Think I Am?

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.

It has been a while since I have been slowed down enough to stop in here, but I wanted to stop by long enough to note that I have not forgotten this site.  I will be back after the holidays with more commentary on stupidity I get in the mail.  It’s not that I have not been getting it, it’s just that with the holidays I have been too busy to mess with commenting on it and have just been trashing it.

Happy  Holidays to you all!

I am configuring a new theme for How Stupid Do They Think I Am? that will I hope be a better style for the blog and website. It will take me a little while to get this all sorted out and working right, so please bear with me while I get this revised and start making it look like I want it to. Thank you.

Okay, so the first question most people are likely to ask is: “Why?”  Why have a website namd “How Stupid Do They Think I Am”?

The answer is simple and it started on a Blogger blog for me, then I decided to move it to here, it’s very own domain.  This is a place where I can stop for a moment to pound my head against the desk as I wave the e-mails I get in the air and ask “How stupid do they think I am?”

A place I can dump those scam and SPAM e-mails that I get.  A place I cn, maybe, alert one or two others to the scams that are being sent around the Internet and perhaps make the average user a little more worldwise on what tricks are used to steal identities.

If I can help just one person learn to identify these scams, then I will have achieved something and my time will have been well spent.  So, I may not have the most entertaining blog you will see, but I’m not trying for entertainment.  I’m just venting and pointing out that I am not as stupid as they seem to think I am.

Will I get an onslaught of e-mails from people out to prove I can be taken in? Probably. Do I care? No. If you want to SPAM me go for it.  Right now my inbox is already so stuffed to the gills with such idiocy that a few more e-mails won’t do anything but feed this blog.