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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 25, 2008, 07:23:04 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4081096
Well, I dunno.
symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-24-08 07:37 PM
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MY SYMBOLFAMILY IS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES TODAY - FEATURE ARTICLE! Giving away Maui home for $100
Well, didn't want to say anything to anyone until we were sure it was happening, but last week a New York Times cameraman did a photoshoot at our home and the article is NOW LIVE on the New York Times site! It's for the paper coming out tomorrow..
We decided to get Pro-Active as our home was not selling and so we created a website and a skill contest (THIS IS NOT A RAFFLE) so that someone would be awarded our home in MAUI for a mere $100 and a great Essay :)
A home in paradise for a $100, hard to beat that with a stick, eh?
The reporter neglected to add the website we created just for this article ( http://www.winmauihome.com ) but we're working on getting an update to the online version at least.
We're excited, and hope this is a way to solve our own personal housing crisis and help out others at the same time
Tell me what you think, did we do the website justice?
Hey! Rate this sucker UP! I wanna see a MUST READ on one of my threads, and if this won't work, an article in the NYTimes, then what does it take?
Mahalo and Aloha!
ON EDIT: Ooops! Here's the NYTimes link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/garden/25raffle.html?...
Sorry!
After which the cymbals-clanging primitive inserts a photograph apparently of his woman, a child, and the cymbals-clanging primitive himself.
I was surprised; the cymbals-clanging primitive looks rather well, whereas I had thought this Vietnam-era veteran looked old and grey and grizzled and seedy and somewhat dirty, like the lying titty primitive or the worthless freeloading bum the wily primitive.
Anyway, it's a big bonfire, a lot of primitives gathered around.
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symbolman (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-24-08 08:06 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. We're looking to get 6,000 entries to cover the home
and if we get less than that the money goes back to the folks, or we may award the top three with a percentage of the entry fees each..
Yeah, some folks are saying that 2008 will be the year of the home raffle, but this is NOT a raffle, it's a SKILL CONTEST.
Hope other people can utilize this idea, I thought I came up with it about 6 months ago, but upon researching the idea I found a lot of people are doing it, but there are no guarantees.. got to get media exposure and work hard at it. We got lucky with a NYTimes reporter.
Dunno where we'll end up, just don't want to be in the street
Thanks!
Let me see here, it's a skill test where you pay $100.00 and submit a essay?
6,000 entries at $100.00 is... $600,000.00!?!
Woah.
Hell, for $50.00 dollars I got a line on a Nigerian Oil well I'll sell ya.!
symbolman (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-24-08 08:25 PM
Response to Reply #21
24. If we get a minimum of 6,000 entries
and your essay is chosen as the Best of them all by our panel of judges then You will be awarded a HUGE house (with a cottage in the back, TWO Houses) that's all YOURS.. whoever wins will have to pay taxes, BUT, they should easily be able to get a home loan for what may be only $150K.. and invest some, or sell it, or rent it all out and make $5,000K a month, take a little less and live in one of the FOUR living areas in the home.
It's a good house, we've enjoyed it, just want to move on, and it's a buyers market
They should check out Freddie Mac!
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2 bedrooms/1 bathroom.
500 square feet living area.
Interior renovated in 2004.
New hot water heater, refrigerator, brand new flooring, new kitchen cabinets, sink, new bathroom vanity.
Large wood deck joins lower main house with cottage.
Yeah I would pay about $100 for that one. :-)
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2 bedrooms/1 bathroom.
500 square feet living area.
Interior renovated in 2004.
New hot water heater, refrigerator, brand new flooring, new kitchen cabinets, sink, new bathroom vanity.
Large wood deck joins lower main house with cottage.
Stoopid DUmmies.....if you have hot water why would you want to heat it?!
These people are idiots.
KC
:-)
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symbolman (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-24-08 08:25 PM
Response to Reply #21
24. If we get a minimum of 6,000 entries
And if you don't? Your "rules" state that the contest might be extended another 60 or 90 days (it says both, unsurprisingly), but then what after that? I really doubt you'll get even half of that number of entries. My guess is that you'll keep the money because, well, let's admit it - this is a scam.
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And if you don't? Your "rules" state that the contest might be extended another 60 or 90 days (it says both, unsurprisingly), but then what after that? I really doubt you'll get even half of that number of entries. My guess is that you'll keep the money because, well, let's admit it - this is a scam.
Well, I dunno if it's a scam.
The cymbals-clanging primitive isn't known for stunts such as that pulled by Doug ex-wife three years ago.
Usually he's just known for griping when the government doesn't pay his way, first class, and for his family too, when he ostensibly needs medical treatment on the "Big Island." (The cymbals-clanging primitive is a veteran.)
As a buyer, I would wonder why he wishes to sell his abode.
Nothing real personal, but maybe along the lines he's got a job somewhere else and so he's moving, or his elderly relatives are ailing and so he's moving to take care of them, or his wife doesn't like the place and so he's moving--something along those lines, so as to assure a potential buyer he's not getting rid of the house for mercenary or malicious reasons.
I dunno about Hawaiian real-estate prices, but it seems such a large amount of money, $600,000, to ask for a place much smaller (square footage) than where I live, which in the Sandhills of Nebraska is appraised at something less than $20,000. Of course, appraised value has no connection with real market value, especially here in Nebraska, but still, $600,000 sounds like an awful lot for a modest beach property, even if in Biarritz.
I'm no real-estate expert, but it just seems awful much.
I think the cymbals-clanging primitive would have a better chance of drawing entries if he were to explain why he's selling--again, just a general comment, no intimate personal or private details needed--and what exactly is about it, that makes it worth $600,000.
I don't think it's a scam; I think the cymbals-clanging primitive is desperate to unload, and this unusual twist to its selling, and the publicity, doesn't hurt.
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The inherent subjectivity involved in grading essays as the decisive factor is an invitation to a lawsuit when he evaluates them "Impartially" but then sells it to some fellow-idiot DUer or other crony after deciding their submission was "Best."
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There's nothing in the "rules" that states that the money will be returned if they don't reach the 6000 entry goal. Little legal loophole there.
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Lets see, I need to scourage up a $100 and write an essay that the judges like. Dude posts about it on the DUmp so therefore I'd feel safe assuming the judges will be moonbats............now all I need do is go back and reread all those bouncy tales and write an essay.
Wish that dude in Africa would hurry up and forward my inheritance from my long lost, black sheep uncle I didn't know I had. I'd have the $100 then.
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Once again proving that a DUmmy and it's allowance/welfare/SSDI check are soon parted.
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Oh my.
I just went over to that bonfire, for another look-see.
It's monstrously large now, blazing furiously.
Some primitives don't seem to like this idea, or the novelty of it.
Also, the "demobabe" primitive appears to be the wife or woman of the cymbals-clanging primitive.
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Unless the essays are to be judged by an independent entity, I could guarantee that the winner will be from DU or a similar moonbat coven.