allthatineeded
Porcupine
"though the course may change sometimes rivers always reach the sea."
Posts: 282
|
Post by allthatineeded on Dec 5, 2007 14:39:28 GMT -5
WOW, I guess I am just completely on another plane than most of you. I have no problem with anyone selling anything they want, it is a free market society after all. The person who buys that or anything else is getting something they can cherish, the guy selling it is getting $ to help his family, a win win situation. Even selling a grave rubbing may seem tacky to some but to others the whole vigil at the grave site thing can seem a bit tacky. Maybe the person buying the items has no other way to get something like that, not everyone can make it to IN to the vigils. I do agree it is a little tacky to sell a gift that was given to you but I am not the person selling it so I have no idea what their situation really is and I refuse to judge them for it.
I feel sorry for the guy, the wrath of melon fans can be viscious. Go easy on him, kill hi mwith kindness.
|
|
|
Post by foreverlights on Dec 5, 2007 19:01:03 GMT -5
$25 - $100, is that really going to make a difference... the person would have spent multiple times more than that going to that vigil... you cannot sustain a family on merely $25 - $100, and it is a sad excuse to say they were doing it for those reasons...
|
|
|
Post by VintageMelon on Dec 5, 2007 19:05:47 GMT -5
WOW, I guess I am just completely on another plane than most of you. I have no problem with anyone selling anything they want, it is a free market society after all. The person who buys that or anything else is getting something they can cherish, the guy selling it is getting $ to help his family, a win win situation. Even selling a grave rubbing may seem tacky to some but to others the whole vigil at the grave site thing can seem a bit tacky. Maybe the person buying the items has no other way to get something like that, not everyone can make it to IN to the vigils. I do agree it is a little tacky to sell a gift that was given to you but I am not the person selling it so I have no idea what their situation really is and I refuse to judge them for it. I feel sorry for the guy, the wrath of melon fans can be viscious. Go easy on him, kill hi mwith kindness. Well you saw what I wrote to her and I wasn't nasty at all. I like to save up all my nasty for special occasions. I get where you're coming from but to sell Shannon's personal check for $25.00 or buy it now for $100.00? She can kiss my ass! #shakeass# I was nice but that is SO wrong! Nel could have taken those checks and sold them 1 at a time for $25.00 a piece but she wouldn't. She'd rather give them to us. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree because I think she was trying to choke a Melon out of a HUGE chunk of change. I do, however, respect your opinion. Diana #hoonsmiley# #hoonsmiley# #hoonsmiley#
|
|
|
Post by 8807 on Dec 7, 2007 8:23:32 GMT -5
It still makes me sick! There's no way to rationalize the attempted selling of that check & make it seem o.k. I FEEL, inside, that it is wrong.Call it an opinion. If anyone else doesn't,that's fine too.That's their opinion.
|
|
|
Post by Meredith on Dec 7, 2007 9:28:07 GMT -5
The whole thing just feels "dirty" to me, he had a ton of other auctions too full of memorabilia of other bands, so the story of being hard up for cash and not having a choice doesn't seem really true. I respect your opinion AllthatIneeded and I can see what you are saying, but I just can't agree. I mean its Shannon's check! Its his bank account number....I feel its just too personal to sell something like that.
|
|
allthatineeded
Porcupine
"though the course may change sometimes rivers always reach the sea."
Posts: 282
|
Post by allthatineeded on Dec 7, 2007 14:37:46 GMT -5
I agree that it is a bit "dirty" to me too but I just defend their right to do as they wish. Rather than the melon community coming down on them for the auction I would rather see us do something to in a more positive way to diffuse the situation. The forum should purchse it and give it away as a prize for melon of the month or something like that. I'd throw $5 in to start if anyone wants to organize the buy.
|
|
jasonhigdon
The Pusher
Rock out with yer thaing out!
Posts: 132
|
Post by jasonhigdon on Dec 7, 2007 18:27:49 GMT -5
Well, hope I don't offend anyone here, but I think it would be a little silly for anyone to actually pay for something like a blank cheque to begin with...
|
|
|
Post by VintageMelon on Dec 7, 2007 19:44:59 GMT -5
I agree that it is a bit "dirty" to me too but I just defend their right to do as they wish. Rather than the melon community coming down on them for the auction I would rather see us do something to in a more positive way to diffuse the situation. The forum should purchse it and give it away as a prize for melon of the month or something like that. I'd throw $5 in to start if anyone wants to organize the buy. While I find your idea to be a great solution there is still one problem. As Mere stated, she has a ton of other auctions, one for a setlist of Alice In Chains, I think. She is also asking for $25.00 or $100.00 to buy it now. That is something I wouldn't mind if it was a BM setlist because it isn't a personal item. I personally wouldn't do it but I wouldn't bash someone for selling it either. This was HIS check, from HIS checkbook, with HIS name, address, and bank account number on it. I agree with Mere and find it in poor taste for her to sell this particular item as she is and she does have a dozen or more other auctions. Jason, those checks were found by Nel and she struggled with parting with them. She did so to give as many people as possible that connection they want with Shannon in a personal manner and even though it's only a check we KNOW FOR SURE they were his. I also agree that the wrath of the Melons is almost as mighty as the band itself...almost but we are a venomous bunch when we get a bee in our bonnet! (pun intended!)
|
|
|
Post by Barbara on Dec 8, 2007 17:49:17 GMT -5
For some reason, I don't see a big problem in this. The person is giving away something they don't want anymore and the person who'll buy it will be happy about it and cherish it so everyone's happy in the end. It might be wrong that the person doesn't care about the check anymore but people change...I don't see such a big deal here. If Nel gave the checks to give people a connection with Shannon and the seller doesn't have one anymore or at least not through this check, the person who'll buy it, will. So in the end of it all, I think the goal is reached.
|
|
jasonhigdon
The Pusher
Rock out with yer thaing out!
Posts: 132
|
Post by jasonhigdon on Dec 9, 2007 0:00:56 GMT -5
Barb...I couldn't agree more!
|
|
|
Post by 8807 on Dec 9, 2007 12:22:33 GMT -5
I'm settled down about it a little now.Hell,I could have wanted it so bad one day that I didn't care how or through who I got it!You're right if someone has apparently lost a connection to Shannon through that check,Then maybe it's time for someone new to cherish it.I sure as Hell would!Maybe that's why I got a little worked up about it.I know I couldn't part with it for a number of reasons.
|
|
|
Post by Barbara on Dec 9, 2007 12:35:46 GMT -5
I wouldn't buy the check but if it was given to me by Nel, I definitely would never ever give it away! The only thing that seem a bit wrong to me is that the person is selling it while it was given to her as a gift. It's not right, but it doesn't upset me.
|
|
|
Post by 8807 on Dec 9, 2007 12:44:16 GMT -5
Oh Yeah, after buying it,knowing it was a personal gift from Nel ,who I have met,I would be sick with guilt over it.I can't imagine having such a day in my Life where I would actually buy it.Not this Melon.Someone should have it that will cherish it.It should be given freely though.Just as Nel decided to do.
|
|
|
Post by Bogo on Dec 9, 2007 17:36:49 GMT -5
I also could care less, some fan is getting a personal piece of memorabilia which he/she is surely going to enjoy far more than the seller and the seller gets their precious money. The seller probably didn't even get it off nel they probably bought it off of another person not realizing how they came by it or something... maybe not Either way the way I look at it is the check goes to a better home, possibly someone nel herself would've given the check to for free if they could have made it to the vigil.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2007 19:42:18 GMT -5
The seller has gotten enough messages from us knowing how much things like these mean to Nel.
If he got it from someone who was there, then he got it for a reason. Who would give a check stub to some random person if they weren't a fan?
|
|