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I am going right there, I will see if I can buy something.

  • 10.27.2005 3:29 PM PDT
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thanks guys for doing this again!

  • 10.27.2005 3:58 PM PDT
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Sweet deal....

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Send me a friend request i want to face someone 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 Lockout Jrad77 - Gamertag

  • 10.27.2005 4:00 PM PDT
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I don't have xbox live right now for halo2 but when i get it i will fight u.

  • 10.27.2005 4:17 PM PDT
Subject: The Bungie/HBO Auction!

Goal: To seek the breast of darkness, and be suckled by the night.

Posted by: John____________
glad to see some bungie rep or ebay rep noticed this and desided to explain the "90 %" ordeal. That is of course, if your from ebay, which you and i know anyone can make a claim there someone on cyber space. Not that i am doubting you of course, since your explanation is very logical. To bad all the fees it takes to run the auction could not be free as well to make sure that it was 100%. :/
To bad eh? None the less, it could be argued that people have to make a living some how.
What postion do you work in if you dont mind me asking. I was very close to getting some of the stuff, but since i saw the 90% goes to charity deal, i was a little uneasy. Hell, i am single and on my own, with a lil under 5 grand for holliday -blam!- in a now ended CD. But i am still a little uneasy after seeing it.
Thx for reading this,
-John__________
EDIT: was some spelling errors that i could catch >_<
Remember kids, if your a bad speller, it does not always mean your gonna not have a very successful life. ;) :)


I've put all the items up on eBay myself. As OKI TI MATA says, the 10% I pulled out should mostly cover expenses - maybe. (eBay takes 2.7+%. Missionfish takes 2.9+%. PayPal takes 2.9%, plus another 3+% if the payer is outside the US.)

It's really, really, REALLY unlikely that I'll end up with any cash left over when all is said and done - I'm counting on OWING a couple of hundred bucks after everything's finished. (Bungie's absorbing 100% of the shipping costs themselves. And they paid all the framing costs, too.) If there IS cash left over, though, I'll donate THAT to the Red Cross, as well.

I've been running bungie.org for 6 years now, and every penny it costs comes out of my pocket. We don't accept advertising, I don't accept donations. It's NEVER been about the money. As I've said in the past, you could buy a midsized car with the money it costs me to run the family of sites every year... so thinking that I'm trying to pocket some cash here is just plain insulting.

  • 10.27.2005 4:22 PM PDT
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ok i will fight u some day...

  • 10.27.2005 4:23 PM PDT
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sweet. its goin to be awsome

  • 10.27.2005 5:58 PM PDT
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How much is Frankie going for? I have my uses for him......

  • 10.27.2005 6:14 PM PDT
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Pay two grand for him or two cents but really what dose the original Ascension map concept say and look like

  • 10.27.2005 6:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: John____________
glad to see some bungie rep or ebay rep noticed this and desided to explain the "90 %" ordeal. That is of course, if your from ebay, which you and i know anyone can make a claim there someone on cyber space. Not that i am doubting you of course, since your explanation is very logical. To bad all the fees it takes to run the auction could not be free as well to make sure that it was 100%. :/
To bad eh? None the less, it could be argued that people have to make a living some how.
What postion do you work in if you dont mind me asking. I was very close to getting some of the stuff, but since i saw the 90% goes to charity deal, i was a little uneasy. Hell, i am single and on my own, with a lil under 5 grand for holliday -blam!- in a now ended CD. But i am still a little uneasy after seeing it.
Thx for reading this,
-John__________
EDIT: was some spelling errors that i could catch >_<
Remember kids, if your a bad speller, it does not always mean your gonna not have a very successful life. ;) :)


I've put all the items up on eBay myself. As OKI TI MATA says, the 10% I pulled out should mostly cover expenses - maybe. (eBay takes 2.7+%. Missionfish takes 2.9+%. PayPal takes 2.9%, plus another 3+% if the payer is outside the US.)

It's really, really, REALLY unlikely that I'll end up with any cash left over when all is said and done - I'm counting on OWING a couple of hundred bucks after everything's finished. (Bungie's absorbing 100% of the shipping costs themselves. And they paid all the framing costs, too.) If there IS cash left over, though, I'll donate THAT to the Red Cross, as well.

I've been running bungie.org for 6 years now, and every penny it costs comes out of my pocket. We don't accept advertising, I don't accept donations. It's NEVER been about the money. As I've said in the past, you could buy a midsized car with the money it costs me to run the family of sites every year... so thinking that I'm trying to pocket some cash here is just plain insulting.


Well I am sorry that I insulted you. However, what I don’t get, is why eBay and Missionfish forgo the "taxing" as I call it, considering this is money going strait to help our helpless brethren. They, in a since could help to, on the relief.
Why charge someone (and someone who is this big I might add, responsible) for something there trying to help others? Making money off money that needs to go to the helpless? Hell, your working with eBay right? you had a "eBay rep" on here yes?

Bungie please don’t think I am attacking you, or halo.bungie.org. Any (I assumed) smart eBay user would understand who would be making the money when I said "who is getting the other 10%" Perhaps I was not clear though, in which would be my fault. I wanted to know why a charity like this was being charged. Even though OKI TI MATA gave a good description of the charges, (which is why now I think he is an eBay user at least, because you do have to pay to have your item show on eBay) what I was trying to get at was why are you guys being treated like other sellers like me? That’s why I said "To bad eh? None the less, it could be argued that people have to make a living some how."
I have a lot of respect for Bungie for doing this-more then you think.
I had several relatives down in the southern states that lived there, till I brought them up here after the disaster. I donated about $200 dollars per disaster (about). I love helping out those who need it. But it is just plan insulting to see that eBay or Missionfish can't let this one go free for the people down there (after all, I lost a lil, but who cares right?). Sure hope the items sell well so that people can get at least 90% of it which they badly need,
-John________
Edit: was on spelling errors and I left 1 or 2 things out >_<

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  • 10.27.2005 6:55 PM PDT

Great way to help out the hurricane victims.

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shame that our goverment is in shambles and cant help them. They say that floridia wont get all of her power back till ThanksGiving >_<

If our Country was fine, why cant we react fast enough or take care our people better? I dont blame the gov though, how can you do it if your billions/trillions of dollars in debt?

Well its up to us and companies like bungie and sites like halo.bungie.org to take care of them. Goodl luck to them, and Gods speed to the victuims. :(

  • 10.27.2005 7:04 PM PDT

Goal: To seek the breast of darkness, and be suckled by the night.

Well, actually, eBay DOES pass along its fees to the charity in question - as long as the donation is 90% or more. So from this auction, the Red Cross will be getting roughly 93% of the total take. The thing is... eBay simply passes along the fees that *I* pay - they break even, but I don't.

As much as I want to help out this cause, I've already given large sums (4 figures) - if this auction goes near 20K, that's more than $500 in eBay fees I'd be on the hook for. No thanks.

And MissionFish simply passes on their credit card charge fees (2.9%) - they're not making money by charging me, they're simply breaking even. They'd go out of business if they didn't charge that. (Since their entire job is overseeing charitable auctions, you can't even say 'but what if they just gave breaks to the CHARITABLE auctions?" - cause that's ALL they do.)

PayPal could be nicer - but they aren't.

And for what it's worth - Bungie isn't involved in the selling at all. Nobody's cutting Bungie a break, because nobody (but me) is DEALING with Bungie.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion.

  • 10.27.2005 7:18 PM PDT

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Hey, thanks for doing this Bungie. It's very kind of people (especially you guys)to start things like this so that we can help even more to those victims. Once again, thank you.

  • 10.27.2005 7:34 PM PDT
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YES I GET TO PLAY WITH MY ACTION FIGURINES NOWWWW OMG

  • 10.27.2005 8:44 PM PDT

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Hey yall should definitely make some posters of the Matte Paintings from halo 2 (they are the extremely detailed backrounds that look like paintings, because they are. Like New Mombasa from space, and Reach without the Covie Ships. Seriously awesome stuff there, love the devotion Bungie.

  • 10.27.2005 8:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: John____________
shame that our goverment is in shambles and cant help them. They say that floridia wont get all of her power back till ThanksGiving >_<

If our Country was fine, why cant we react fast enough or take care our people better? I dont blame the gov though, how can you do it if your billions/trillions of dollars in debt?

Well its up to us and companies like bungie and sites like halo.bungie.org to take care of them. Goodl luck to them, and Gods speed to the victuims. :(



Why because we are lazy.... we sit here at our computers talking when we should be helping, if I lived anywhere near there, and could get a ride from someone, I would try to help. I also dont have to much room to talk though, cause when hurricane katrina hit the only thing I did was donate some water, towels, and some toiletries.

  • 10.27.2005 8:51 PM PDT
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I wish i had a credit card so i could buy that red Mc witht he magnum and smg. ARGHHHH

  • 10.27.2005 9:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Louis Wu
Well, actually, eBay DOES pass along its fees to the charity in question - as long as the donation is 90% or more. So from this auction, the Red Cross will be getting roughly 93% of the total take. The thing is... eBay simply passes along the fees that *I* pay - they break even, but I don't.

As much as I want to help out this cause, I've already given large sums (4 figures) - if this auction goes near 20K, that's more than $500 in eBay fees I'd be on the hook for. No thanks.

And MissionFish simply passes on their credit card charge fees (2.9%) - they're not making money by charging me, they're simply breaking even. They'd go out of business if they didn't charge that. (Since their entire job is overseeing charitable auctions, you can't even say 'but what if they just gave breaks to the CHARITABLE auctions?" - cause that's ALL they do.)

PayPal could be nicer - but they aren't.

And for what it's worth - Bungie isn't involved in the selling at all. Nobody's cutting Bungie a break, because nobody (but me) is DEALING with Bungie.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion.

Thx for the clear up, glad were on the same ground now. :)
500 bucks eh? for some thats more then 1 week worth of work. Well i tip my hat off to you for donating, it really means a lot to me and my faimly. You gave yourself a couple of grand+ to the relief? :)
Did you talk to paypal about this charity? Cause if you did and they said now that does not speak well about there company.
Edit: again spelling errors and left out "work" >_<

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  • 10.27.2005 9:16 PM PDT
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Man, I believe that since there are so many "cheaters" online on Xbox Live, there is going to be a whole new wave of ebay "cheaters" and "boosters" trying to bid on these items or running up the prices too high... You guys should watch out for the people bidding on these items, they might not be legit, maybe have some kind of requirement, like 5 valid purchases on ebay with no negative feedback etc...

  • 10.27.2005 10:18 PM PDT
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I have never seen something like that on ebay, so i dont think that will be a problem. (I really should get back to work, i feel i am on here to much. Well, i am sick....still....)

Infact, they would do a good thing. Just that halo.bungie.org would have to cover the cost >_<

  • 10.27.2005 10:53 PM PDT

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It's an awesome idea.

  • 10.28.2005 5:42 AM PDT
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that is a really good idea man keep it up guys and also i am voting soon and guess who i am voting WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

  • 10.28.2005 6:00 AM PDT

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