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Have coffee with Tim Cook – a charity auction
- rwbt 14y agoI would definitely do it, if I had the dough. They probably would make more if they have Jony Ive for the bidding.
- napolux 14y agoI agree.
- ignostic 14y ago"The minimum processing and handling charge for this item is $9.95."
- napolux 14y agoQuestion... Would you consider, as a startupper, to invest some money (quite a lot, we are now around 15k $) in the possibility to chat with Tim Cook?
- adlpz 14y agoVery much, no. I would never pay $15k so talk to anyone. Having people you look up to is something. This would be senseless idolatry.
- napolux 14y ago$23k right now
- ctdonath 14y agoIt's about the charity donation. That you get coffee with Tim Cook is just bait. I've been at charity auctions where people bid rediculous sums for rediculous items. It wasn't about getting the item, it was an excuse for giving money.
- adlpz 14y agoI know, and, if I had the money, I'd do the charity donation. But the parent comment asked about paying in general a large sum to talk to Tim Cook in the context of being an entrepreneur. I understood the charity aspect of it wasn't to be considered.
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- kondor6c 14y agoI would like to put a bid in for Richard Stallman (Founder of GNU foundation), but I don't have the money to make that kind of minimum bid ($15,333)
- jordn 14y agoSeems a shame that they're using the traditional auction format, meaning only the very rich will have this opportunity. Would have been much better if they'd offered the lottery ticket style of prizeo.com, would have bought a few tickets with the off-chance of winning then.
- pc86 14y agoWhy is it a shame? I don't mean to sound snarky, but the point is to raise money for charity, so the goal is going to be to get as much money as possible. I'm not familiar with Prizeo, but I'm willing to bet it'd be tough to raise $50k+ on a lottery basis.
- badclient 14y agoI think you can definitely raise $50,000 via $5-$20 lottery tickets. Of course the legality of it may make it trickier.
- pc86 14y agoI wasn't specific in my post, I meant with Tim Cook specifically. And maybe with $5-20 that would be more possible, I was thinking something closer to "$1 = 1 vote" or something like that.
- LinaLauneBaer 14y agoAnother cool auction format used is this: The last person putting $10 in the pot wins the auction. Putting $10 in the pot will postpone the end of the auction for let's say 30 minutes. This format has been used at some of the charity auctions I visited. It was very funny... Now that I am thinking about it: Maybe it only works in real live because the moderator of the evening was very funny and motivating.
- mcintyre1994 14y agoHeh, I've seen this format on one of those "You can buy an iPad for £5" not-so-charity sites my dad tried. Very very clever business model, we often saw things going for much more than you could buy them elsewhere because people were already invested. You had to be the highest bidder for some fixed amount of time instead of the Ebay model of last second sniping, genius psychological trick.
- alimoeeny 14y agoIf you want to donate to a good cause, go donate to a good cause, you don't need Tim Cook for that.
- jason_slack 14y agoI'd rather donate to talk to Jonathan Blow, Tommy Refenes, Howard Schultz, Jony Ive. Laurene Powell-Jobs would be worth more, even..... Tim being the CEO of Apple doesn't make him valuable in this case, at least to me.
- jason_slack 14y agowhy the down vote to my comment? Others even agree Tim Cook is being used as bait and listed alternatives to whom they would rather have coffee with...
- pdenya 14y agoThe bid history is interesting: https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/337478/bids https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/337478/bids Looks like the current leader, rory.oneill3 has bid against himself a few times.
- jason_slack 14y agoThat is interesting. As did bidder 'ddorato' at the $6,000 - $7,000 bid.
- dot 14y agoI think that just means that he had an automatic bid that was higher than someone else's.
- bryanjclark 14y agorory.oneill3 might be an executive at Blackberry: http://clrk.it/image/0N1G0G3o2B43 http://clrk.it/image/0N1G0G3o2B43
- joezhou 14y agoI guess this would count as an expense for someone's company account, so.. why not.