- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: John____________
Posted by: Louis Wu
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 >_<
eBay was created and based on equality. That's why all users pay the same fee, from the stay at home mom to the multimillion dollar corporation that sells on the site. This is why charity auctions also pay for the fees. I don't even have an employee discount for goodness sake. That shows how equal everybody is charged.
However, eBay has done a lot to help victims. eBay has done a lot that anyone can know about by checking news and researching online. They also made a lot that most people will never know. They have done to the personal level that will never be known but to a few.
The company did a lot based on its own resources. They also communicated with employees. Employees were able to participate and contribute. The employees' contributions, which were monetary and non monetary, were enhanced by the company's resources made available. I really put a lot of effort to contribute.
It is very easy to say someone or an entity is doing or not doing something. We need to remember that we don't know everything that happens that is out of public view/knowledge. The experience that the employees had by helping the victims of the hurricane are priceless, at least to me. I know the stories of some of the people who were helped. The majority of the good was done to people I'll probably never meet. It doesn't matter. To do good and help a felow human being is the right thing to do.