Have coffee with Tim Cook – a charity auction

https://www.charitybuzz.com/TimCook

by napolux • 13 years ago

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rwbt• 13 years ago

I would definitely do it, if I had the dough. They probably would make more if they have Jony Ive for the bidding.

napolux3• 13 years ago

I agree.

ignostic• 13 years ago

"The minimum processing and handling charge for this item is $9.95."

napolux3• 13 years ago

Question... Would you consider, as a startupper, to invest some money (quite a lot, we are now around 15k $) in the possibility to chat with Tim Cook?

adlpz2• 13 years ago

Very much, no. I would never pay $15k so talk to anyone.

Having people you look up to is something. This would be senseless idolatry.

napolux3• 13 years ago

$23k right now

ctdonath• 13 years ago

It's about the charity donation. That you get coffee with Tim Cook is just bait.

I've been at charity auctions where people bid rediculous sums for rediculous items. It wasn't about getting the item, it was an excuse for giving money.

kondor6c• 13 years ago

I would like to put a bid in for Richard Stallman (Founder of GNU foundation), but I don't have the money to make that kind of minimum bid ($15,333)

jordn2• 13 years ago

Seems a shame that they're using the traditional auction format, meaning only the very rich will have this opportunity.

Would have been much better if they'd offered the lottery ticket style of prizeo.com, would have bought a few tickets with the off-chance of winning then.

pc862• 13 years ago

Why is it a shame?

I don't mean to sound snarky, but the point is to raise money for charity, so the goal is going to be to get as much money as possible. I'm not familiar with Prizeo, but I'm willing to bet it'd be tough to raise $50k+ on a lottery basis.

badclient• 13 years ago

I think you can definitely raise $50,000 via $5-$20 lottery tickets. Of course the legality of it may make it trickier.

jordn2• 13 years ago

Might be more difficult with someone with more limited appeal (to the mainstream) like Tim Cook, but I do believe they've raised considerably more than that with their other auctions.

To be clear, I don't actually know how much they've raised, which I think is a failure of the site so far; giving to charity should be transparent.

alimoeeny• 13 years ago

If you want to donate to a good cause, go donate to a good cause, you don't need Tim Cook for that.

jason_slack3• 13 years ago

I'd rather donate to talk to Jonathan Blow, Tommy Refenes, Howard Schultz, Jony Ive.

Laurene Powell-Jobs would be worth more, even.....

Tim being the CEO of Apple doesn't make him valuable in this case, at least to me.

jason_slack3• 13 years ago

why the down vote to my comment? Others even agree Tim Cook is being used as bait and listed alternatives to whom they would rather have coffee with...

pdenya• 13 years ago

The bid history is interesting: https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/337478/bids

Looks like the current leader, rory.oneill3 has bid against himself a few times.

jason_slack3• 13 years ago

That is interesting. As did bidder 'ddorato' at the $6,000 - $7,000 bid.

dot• 13 years ago

I think that just means that he had an automatic bid that was higher than someone else's.

bryanjclark• 13 years ago

rory.oneill3 might be an executive at Blackberry: http://clrk.it/image/0N1G0G3o2B43

joezhou• 13 years ago

I guess this would count as an expense for someone's company account, so.. why not.

Have coffee with Tim Cook – a charity auction

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