Bemnefit auction for tsunami victims "30x40centimeter print"

Please read this. IMPORTANT !!! -

This is a benefit Auction for the people suffering in asia by the tsunami disaster. -

Use the comments for to bit. Highest bidder gets a print 30x40 of this picture AFTER he did donate the sum he did bit to a official helping organisation like unicef,red cross... -

Donation must be done after the end of this auction...wich will be 31 th january midnight (central european time). -

The money dont goes to me...it goes from the winner of this auction directly to a help organisation...and he gets the print from me for a copy of the donation receipt. -

I will pay for the print and the shipping. - -------------------------

Because this is done to collect money for people in need and not for selling pictures of buying cheap pictures ... the minimum bit is dollar 150 ( this is lower then the regular price of the picture) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

why do i do this? someone did the same on a german photographer- community...and many joined him. After some few days they got more then 15.000 dollar together. This is a great help to the people in need in asia. I just hope that here on photo.net many will join me and do the same...auctionate your pictures....bid...donate....lets help ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I did upload this picture already a while ago for comments and ratings...i reloaded it just for the auction because i hope many will join....if u want that many will see this picture u can rate it...its up to u

me , being just a tired german, thinking metric...did forget to say...its centimeters....30x40 centimeters... not inches !!!

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please see also the forum thread

click to read(thread was deleted , was the worng forum, a non archived one)

I would like to start the bid at $200. (so that is my bid... $200.)

 

Todd

MORE TSUNAMI SELF PROMOTION GIMMICKRY??? Now I suppose everyone will tag their photonet uploads and critique requests with disaster relief and other emotional appeals.

Great idea and well thought. The way you propose the direct flow of money makes certain that you do not benefit from it. I just looked at your portfolio. The quality of the images in your portfolio and this one here does not strike me as a "very obvious" way to cheat on the rating system. I may be a fool to usually take a good intention at face value - but even if this would not be correct i would be the first to suggest that PN should officially offer pictures of the week for sale in exchange to aid people in desperate need. Anyway i give it a 7 for originality and an A6 for the poor cropping of the coast ^^

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Faith, your unjustified and bitter attacks on people trying to help in a very needy cause have prompted me to report your antics to the administrators. Your behaviour and narrow mindness is not what a community is all about.

@ faith....i DO hope others will also auctionate their pictures...its not a gimick

@ Walter...i took a picture wich is already in my folder and rated very high....so, no one needs to worry that i am looking for rates....
but i do not understand why people rate it this time so low....so few people see this auction now :-(
i also did send a mail to photo.net asking if they can create us a folder wehre others can auctionate their pictures...the forum also would be a good place...i opened a thread there

please see also the forum thread

click to read

(thread was deleted,it was the worng forum, a non archived one )

@ all...i realy hope that u also think about auctionate a picture of yours...in a german community people did collect a lot of donations that way

I am completely disgusted with the response to what I thought was a pretty noble idea.

 

I don't even know what to say...

It is a noble idea, but strictly forbidden by Photo.net - no auctions. It's on the Terms of Use. You'll need to get permission in writing from Photo.net, I think. I like many of your images more. Why did you choose this one?

@ Christopher...i did write to photonet about this auction...hoping they even create a folder where others can join and auctionate pictures...i dont auctionate for me...the money goes directly to a help organisation, i 6think this is different from what was meant in the termswhy i did choose this picture?

i like it, i think it fits...

the airplane at the wall could make u remember niceley that u helped sending some planes down there

its one of my highest rated pictures here, and i think many people would klike it
i did hope it gets rated same high as the first time and many will see it, when its shown in the tops

i just hope others will join...bit, and or auctionate, and i hope photonet will held us

I really don't see any self-promotion here, but do see some misplaced emotions...This disaster should affect us all in a more positive manner. Right now our shop has not heard from one of the Engineers who was in Indonesia with family...

it is realy a pitty that no one else wanted to join and auctionate a picture

 

the thread in the forum is already closed and i dont know if i should continue to try to find people here who would like to help

 

...sad result

Well, Andreas, don't give up..I donated some today and many of us will probably donate in smaller amounts for some time.....

anyway... no one esle did start an own auction here...no one else did bit... thats sad

 

thanks all for joining the discussion, thanks todd for your bid