Just Like (a) Human » 2006 » December » 04 http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net If our world was... just like a human, would we abuse it so? Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:59:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ My First Christmas Tree. http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/my-first-christmas-tree/ http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/my-first-christmas-tree/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:43:57 +0000 Xial Lunashine, via Flickr http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/my-first-christmas-tree/

My First Christmas Tree.

I've Never Had One Before.

]]> http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/my-first-christmas-tree/feed/ Would you buy somethin’ like that? http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/would-you-buy-somethin-like-that/ http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/would-you-buy-somethin-like-that/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:04:52 +0000 Justin http://pxnet.pixelechoes.net/2006/12/04/would-you-buy-somethin-like-that/ Okay, so, this year here in Florida, the [tag]Florida Lottery[/tag] Commission decided to have a “[tag]Holiday Millionaire Raffle[/tag]“.

For $20, 1,250,000 tickets were sold (Total of $25,000,000 pulled in), as a limited run. This game sold out in ten days. No one else may purchase a ticket from a retailer location.

My coworker and I were standing around the lotto machine at work one afternoon, when an urgent email popped onto its screen, telling us that there were only 65000 tickets left. I tell her, “That game’s selling out tonight. I bet there’ll be a ticket on eBay soon. Sell me a ticket.”

Now, [tag]eBay[/tag] has a policy against selling lottery or raffle tickets through their site.

This person found a clever way around that particular rule, by [tag]auctioning[/tag] a CD Jewel Case, and giving the ticket with it for free.

I think I’ll have to tell her about that, and how right I was.

Now, I don’t think that guy’s gonna get too many bids, starting his so high. I’d have started at $100, not $1,000. That’d be profit right there, at least, and of course, it might even escalate into a bidding war. But, starting at $1,000? If I bought that, and the ticket inside lost, I’d be mightily irked about that. $1,000 for a piece of plastic to store a CD or DVD in? Yeah. Right.

Still, it’s pretty funny. ;D

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