Trade Me auction for Consul lasted a week
I’m very impressed with Trade Me that they had enough of a sense of humour to keep the auction for an Honorary Consulship to the destination of your choice open for almost an entire week.
Whale Oil blogs that this was not due to accidental oversight but that they had been enjoying it:
We’ve enjoyed watching your listing and the various questions members have asked, and the listing has gained quite a bit of attention which is great. However it’s also accrued a number of complaints, which is understandable when dealing with politics.
Due to the complaints, and due to the fact that the item itself isn’t actually something you can deliver, we’ve removed the listing.
Whale notes that if National wins, he might be able to get very rich selling these for real. Personally I think he was more excited by the fact one of the bidders was offering Rachel Hunter, Aja Rock, Nicky Watson and Gilda Kirkpatrick for a weekend romp.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Its obvious that trademe has joined the herald in the conspiracy against the labour party.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am
But they have not been going for the entire 91 years of the conspiracy!
February 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Perhaps TradeMe was devised by the conspirators especially to bring Labour down… the whole auction thing is just a clever (and successful) front…
February 28th, 2008 at 8:07 am
David Farrar: But they have not been going for the entire 91 years of the conspiracy!
Ah, but they’ve been planning it that long! Inventing the Interwebs, turning our society into one of consumers and so forth. That all took time. And now it’s reached it’s crowning glory, this auction. I think. Or maybe that’s too big a conspiracy theory.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Was that as a promise… or a threat? A weekend surrounded by the likes of them, unless spent under a vow of silence in a monastery (which I suspect would have rules that then defeated the purpose of having them round at all) would inevitably lead to permanent dimunition of one’s IQ.
(With the possible exception of Rachel Hunter, who seems to have wised up thanks to motherhood, divorce etc…)
February 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Sam:
I take it you’re not Sam Morgan?
February 28th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Well if Trade Me liked that auction, I guess that’s it for Helen & Co eh?