Bad kids no presents

Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:47 am Post subject: Bad kids no presents

synopsis: Dad takes away his kids' Christmas presents and puts them up for auction on EBay...

full article here

auction here
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Bonez · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:34 am Post subject:

A little scroogish (that a word?) but the kids will know better next time. Having a twin brother myself yeah, we fought a lot, we still do, never got x-mas presents taken away though. On another note, somewhere in the article it said they were low income i think. Maybe if they spent less on presents they woulnd't be "low income" $700 of video games, a bike, fishtank and kereoke machine, and that's just for the kids.
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:53 am Post subject:

There's nothing like rubbing the kids nose in it and showing them what they just pissed away by misbehaving. Whether or not I/We agree with it I'm sure this decision was not easy to come to.
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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:57 am Post subject:

To much effort and brings in others to the family....My dad would of just broke them and kicked your ass. There was no long term being bad....it was over quick! ouch.....
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Mike · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:02 am Post subject:

Stevo · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:36 am Post subject:

I think the whole family is getting punished there, not just the kids. And now they have nothing to lose, so what's going to stop them now? They shouldn't have let it get to that level in the first place....
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Rebel_Rouser · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject:

heh, thats classic, man people are coming up with all sorts of new ways to discipline their kids now
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Kahlan Amnell · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject:

well, the dad posting this has been buying selling little girl's clothing, and bought at least one of those DS's off of ebay (for 192ish) so he can't exactly take it back to the "store".... also, if you were doing this to your kids, would you contact the media? just thought this was interesting... hm. yup, def. unique
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sgt stutter · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject:

Lhiannan_Shee · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

I do a lot of buying, and selling on Ebay, and I am disgusted by the way people use Ebay to play on others emotions, et cetera. Like, all the sentimental stories, and schemes, wacky reasons, etc that they use to sell things. The more outrageous, the more publicity people get, and the more money they make.

I doubt this has anything to do with the kids... or maybe it did (but why the hell wouldnt they just return them to the store???? because the parents want MORE MONEY). Thats what the world is about. It disgusts me.

And yeah.. seriously... what kind of "extremely low income" family can afford that for christmas????? My parents were well off, and I never got anything that cost that much for christmas. The article, and auction combined, make me totally think more and more this was a scheme to get higher bids.
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Mike · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

Lhiannan is probably right. it could have also been real then they figured they could make money off it too.

heh, the auction got removed form ebay.
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KopiKat · Registered User Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 923

LOL thats hilarious, those kids should have been damned happy that I wasn't their father. I woulda just whooped their ass and that would have been the end of it. You have to foster some sort of respect with your children, or else all hell breaks loose (trust me i know, i've seen it

) and nobody listens.
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5th GHG E.G. Mine · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:

I would've sold the kids and kept all three DSes instead.

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Vicoden · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:56 am Post subject:

I would have made the kids just sit and watch while I played with all the new stuff.