Comments on: The Metafilter 3l33t userid auction is up to $70

The Metafilter 3l33t userid auction is up to $70

waxpancake — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:18:22 -0800

The Metafilter 3l33t userid auction is up to $70. It might be silly, but it's for a good cause.

By: rschram

rschram — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:37:25 -0800

I think this goes against nature.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:44:28 -0800

good cause? what good cause? The "buy me a beer when I'm in Sydney next week" cause?

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:19:32 -0800

Sorry, I just assumed you'd be donating the proceeds to Jakob Neilsen's hair transplant fund. If anyone needs the money, it's poor Jakob.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:49:33 -0800

Dammit waxy! Sure, the second I'm the high bidder, you go publicizing it... You sore loser, you.. :-)

Matt, I figured it went into the "server fund". Didn't realize that you were using that definition of "server". As in "Hi, I'll be your server tonight. Would you like some company?"

That's a lot of beer by the way...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:57:35 -0800

I feel bad the bidding is so high, and all you get is a stinkin' ID. I'll throw in a free metafilter pro subscription for life to the winning bidder. I was considering also adding "any single new feature of your choosing" but I bet someone would ask for "delete/kill" functions and we'd have madness.

So free mefi pro, which I hope to implement in September.

By: rabi

rabi — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:57:41 -0800

ah, metafilter. where we moan about the commercialization of america, mourn for those on the less fortunate end of our capitalist class system, and finally give in to the reality that elitism does make us happy, so long as we can pay for it....

By: rschram

rschram — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:07:04 -0800

So free mefi pro, which I hope to implement in September. Is this the new name for My.metafilter, where you get weather information?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:07:44 -0800

Considering how much the MeFi pro would cost to be a member of for life, maybe 85$ isn't so bad for this ID.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:19:11 -0800

Back off, bitches... :-)

By: accountingboy

accountingboy — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:31:23 -0800

You're goin' down fooljay.

Guess who just got a raise yesterday? :)

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:42:41 -0800

"My name is fooljay 757, you killed my bid, prepare to die."

By: accountingboy

accountingboy — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:50:55 -0800

Okay big boy, it's time to kick it up a notch.

ESST is coming after you.

that's 3557 in case you were wondering

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:54:19 -0800

Ooh, 3557. You are desperate... :-)

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:55:57 -0800

Now I kind of feel sorry for you...

You know, this is going to become a mighty long (and expensive) thread if we keep this up for the next 4 days, 6 hours...

By: accountingboy

accountingboy — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:01:03 -0800

You must be that little spanish brat I taught a lesson to all those years ago. Simply incredible. You've been bidding against me your whole life, only to fail now? I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard. How marvelous.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:17:53 -0800

There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Oh...Oops...Wrong cue...

By: accountingboy

accountingboy — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:32:52 -0800

I'd appreciate it if you would refer to them as manboobies.

extra skin and fat
nonlactating with chest hair
a-cup manboobies

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:09:29 -0800

Manboobies: One broken link which I'm relieved to find broken...

By: fooljay

fooljay — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:33:31 -0800

You know, thinking about it, the right thing to do would be to purge the membership of old inactive users and move everyone down that many spaces...

By: ljromanoff

ljromanoff — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:27:26 -0800

Well, I guess we know what accountingboy is spending his tax rebate on.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:31:29 -0800

good lord... it's at $127.50... that's just ridiculous.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:44:15 -0800

I paid less than that for my vietnamese girlboy Hun Lee.

By: daveadams

daveadams — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:21:12 -0800

Can all sub-1000 users get MefiPro for life? Pleeeze?

How about those who have contributed over 1500 comments?

By: fooljay

fooljay — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 00:22:20 -0800

What Dave said...

By: lucien

lucien — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 00:37:35 -0800

Where has user number eight been all this time?

Matt, this looks like a fine investment. Somebody could buy it and re-sell again in a year, probably (all things going well) at a profit. They could then buy themselves a condominium and live out the rest of their lives in comfort.

*Trying to spruik more money for Matt*

By: corpse

corpse — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:38:28 -0800

hmm, I wonder how much 204 would go for, it's a nice even number that's pretty close to 200. $10 at least, right?

By: ljromanoff

ljromanoff — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:49:41 -0800

I'm offering 3507. Bidding starts at $0.50.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:28:52 -0800

You guys are insane; don't you know the only way to use eBay is to act like you just don't care until about three minutes before the auction expires and then snipe the hell out of everyone else?

just sayin' <grin>

By: fooljay

fooljay — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:10:28 -0800

shhhhhhh

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:36:11 -0800

shhhhhhh nuthin'. the last fifteen or so minutes of this auction are going to be more back-stabbing, cut-throating fun to watch than the last game of a 3-3 Subway Series.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:49:59 -0800

Matt, how about also getting to name a section in Meta Talk? Can you ship this ground please.

By: accountingboy

accountingboy — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:30:15 -0800

Could we please exclude people with feedback less than positive 10? You know they're just a bunch of script kiddie wannabes that have no intent of ever putting their money where their mouse is.

By: judith

judith — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:19:50 -0800

hey matt, when does that "i'm taking the proceeds and running off to australia and there's no more metafilter for a few weeks" hiatus start exactly? i'm just thinking i could schedule myself some additional projects & things with all of that spare time...

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:52:16 -0800

I am looking at this as an opportunity to tell my wife... "Honey, today I bought the number 8".

By: tj

tj — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:59:49 -0800

hmm, I wonder if Matt makes enough money on this, will a new tagline will show up:
"Brought to you by the number 8"

By: ljromanoff

ljromanoff — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:16:41 -0800

Looks like the bidding is stuck at $135.00.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:20:04 -0800

By: ljromanoff

ljromanoff — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:48:52 -0800

E-bay sent me an e-mail saying I was out bid, then 13 minutes later sent a note that the bid had been retracted. This is quite strange since the bid history did not catch this or the change from $130.39 (no idea where that came from) to $135, which is what I bid. Hmmm.

This might be because I attempted to outbid you, but made a techically unallowable bid first (not at least $2.50 more than the current bid), which would have been auto-retracted by the system.

I'd really rather have 7, anyway.

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:40:06 -0800

Finally, somebody upped the kitty. Now I can make my donation to the MeFi Amazon Honor Society.

By: jbelshaw

jbelshaw — Sun, 05 Aug 2001 18:25:09 -0800

what happened to all the bidding? Matt needs a new pair of shoes.

By: gluechunk

gluechunk — Sun, 05 Aug 2001 21:59:11 -0800

so accountingboy, what was your max?