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I am looking to sell my car registration plate which is

HO11 DEM

Looks fantastic when parked up in any casino / card room car park.

At the moment i am inviting offers but please bear in mind what this plate is worth.
If i dont receive an offer which i feel to be worthwhile i am also thinking of "raffling" it off for say
£50 per ticket with a capped amount of tickets available. 

A portion of the proceeds for this sale will go to the Butterwick Hospice, who helped
out my friend and his family just before he recently passed away for cancer. 

Expressions of interest to buy outright or particpate in buying a ticket for the raffle are welcome.

in before camel related joke

i'll open the bidding at £2.5

do you have any poker related ones?

Tempting offer ironside, but im hoping to be able to at least afford a big mac meal for myself after my donation to the hospice.  :)
Thanks for getting the ball rolling though.  :)

£2.49

Um ive allready been offered £2.50, usually the idea of making an offer is to outbid the last one.
:)

£2.45

Welcome to blonde...

What ballpark figure you expecting to achieve?

I saw p6ker drive past me a couple years ago.... Bet thats worth a few quid

I did have it valued and was told it woud fetch around £20k but personally i think that is a little ambitious, unless there was a specific
high return player who has that kind of money to shell out on a registration plate.

However i reckon that i could easily get 100+ players to buy a £50 ticket to be raffled at a poker festival given that most would attract 300+ or so players,

My line of thought would be if i could get
100 - 150 tickets at £50 each for a raffle it would generate £5k - £7.5k which is i think realistic and achievable.

£2.25

Suggest you send a PM to CH10 MPY

Usually up for a ridic plate. Last seen bidding for OM10 H A  (£16K)

Y would some one get a poker related number plate?

Gl getting 10 ppl pay 50£ in ur raffle


Poker tattoo are pretty tez also
Seen ppl with aces tattooed on their arm rofls

Poker players with tattoos. So common.

Thanks for the suggestion Nirvana,  am bit of a techno phobe, so can you tell me how i can find his profile to send a pm to him?
Thanks again.

The last raffle I heard of done like this by a poker player was so conveniently won by his wife.

If that is your next idea, I hope blondepoker bans that from being facilitated through this site.

(I have no idea whether you are reputable are not fwiw and that's not an attack on you but as a site who has suffered highly from scammers this idea seems ridiculous if allowed).

What's your name? Where roughly do you live? What car do you drive? Can we have a pic of the plate on the car?

It wouldn't be allowed on here. 

It's jack! He's back

£1.99

Great plate!

I might be interested, what figure did you have in mind?

Has anyone called the police?

Too late!

I've decided to buy 1M 4 M070N W17H N0 8R41N instead.

Paid 25k for it too.

Just need a car big enough to fit it all in.

I want this car.

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Greekstein

Yes I do understnad that some people will abuse the nature of others and did not take your post as a personal attack.  Unlike the Camels post.
IF i was to proceed with a raffle then there are a number of ways that i can proceed with it to give it credability.
There is an option to do it through an online "raffle site" so it is regulated externally by the site, but then some people still may question the
use of such a site.  The other obvious way woud be to get the permission of a card room that was running a large enough event - to
do the draw live at the event - the draw could be made by the person representing the Hospice which the donation would be going to or
by the card room manager so that it ensures a degree of fairness across the board.

The Camel
Perhaps you need to look at your life and reflect upon your lovely sense of empathy towards your fellow man.  I am not looking to sell my car registration
as a con or to make a profit.  If it is not your thing then fine, but posting pathetic insults on a forum of others is quite sad really.  If it is not your thing then you
simply dont need to read it.
 

If you're not looking to make a profit then why all this 'inviting offers' stuff - just tell us what you paid for it and then that's the price. If you want the buyer to give £500 to the hospice then add £500 to that price or whatever.

Because im not just going to give it away, the more that is made for the hospice the better.  If I get an offer that i think is reasonable then i will take it.
I AM NOT really that bothered about selling it as I bought it for myself anyway.
I just figured that if i could make something decent on it then it would be a nice gesture and tribute to my friend and the hospice.  If it doesnt sell then
i really am not that bothered, but im not giving it away for nothing.

We are perhaps a bit cynical because your first ever post on this forum was to try to flog something.

If you had taken the time to get to know us a little you would see that yours isn't the first poker related registration plate that has been offered for sale.

Why not tell us who you are, state your price, and tell us what percentage of the sale price will be donated to charity?  

And we should believe you are doing this for charity why exactly?

You come to a forum where no one knows you and try and flog a worthless piece of tat under the guise of doing it for charity and you expect us to believe it.

Why not just sell the plate to a dealer and give the money to charity, instead of going through this rigmarole?

basically this!

This plate is  currently available for £5895 at a friends company if memory serves

Been withdrawn in the last hour synetos?

Shrewd move from The Camel - trash-talking to drive down the price before he snaps up a bargain.

Camel
In case you didnt notice, this is a poker forum and the car plate is of poker relevance.  It is worthless to those who
have no interest in it, idiots like yourself for example, however there is a market for private number plates for a
variety of reasons.

Granted you dont know me, and boy am i glad of that because you seem like a pratt, but i take on board your point
of doubt cast over the cause of me selling it.  This is why i have posted that there are a number of ways it could
be done - the most credible probably would be to invite a representative of the hospice to actually do the draw.

Red Dog
Granted i can understand your point of this being the first thread i have posted, which may have cast some doubt
with the usual sceptics, however i have never really been one to bother with "forums" and it was only that
someone suggested posting it on here whilst i was talking about it during a small cash game at my local casino.

I have not got a price in mind as such, but would be looking to donate 50% of the sale price to the hospice.
The other 50% of the sale price would pretty much cover the costs that i have incurred from purchasing.




 

Rockstar

Not sure what you mean by withdrawn in the last hour ?

The only person who can sell this is myself as i have the full DVLA V750 Document (Certificate of entitlement) for this plate.

Regtransfers in Dunstable mean anything to you?

If you had 10,000 posts and made the original message I would still have taken the piss. Maybe not quite so harshly.

I am not a fan of personalised number plates you see.

Every 6 months or so a new poster comes on trying to sell one.

Not one sale yet, doubt there ever will be.

You can seee why we are sceptical, surely?

anyone seen mr j kershaw recently?

because i am unsure if your mr kershaw or not i reduce my bid to 99p

Fair point Camel

You are entitled to ridicule people trying to sell something tjat you are not a fan of, just as
much as i am entitled to irritate you with what a lot of people may see as Spam i guess.

Like allready stated it was just an idea thrown out there but fellow players whilst at the felt
to make a post on here to see what kind of interest it gets.  I dont for a minute expect
anyone to actually be able to have the disposable income to fork out £5k just for a number
plate as unless they are a huge profit player then most people would not really bother, howere
given that ALL poker players are gamblers i do anticipate that most would feel it to be reasonable
to have a £50 punt on winning a plate that is actually quite "catchy" if you are into poker - given
that most poker players would think twice about putting £50 into a pot with a nut flush draw.

I have allready had an offer from the manager of my local card room to run the raffle at their event, but i figured
there isnt any harm in posting also, given that my local card room may not be the biggest of venues but it still
would return a reasonable amount IF i decide to go ahead, I am in no hurry to sell NOR am i BUSTO in case any
sceptics want to throw that in the mix too.  I am employed, own my own home and see poker as an enjoyable
passtime - not that i should EVEN have to justify any of that to anyone.

See attached pic of the Certificate of entitlement - with the certificate number removed for obvious reasons.

you do realise this makes no sense? your costs don't increase if the sale price goes up

Where is your local card room? What other poker players know you?

I think he's looking to sell it for twice what he paid for it and giving the profit to the hospice.

That's how I read this post anyways.

Yes Camel that is pretty much what i am hoping.

so name the price then

How much did Sofa King want for FL11 SHY?

60k was it?

Like i said i am inviting offers at this moment in time - the raffle is an option if no offers are received.  If you want to make an offer
then please feel free to PM me.

I have given a rough breakdown of the figures that i expect could POTENTIALLY be raised with a raffle, (I anticipate between 5-7k) however I am aware that
nothing is certain.  Whoever purchases the plate / wins the raffle will have the V750 certificate transferred into their name
IN FRONT OF THEM through the DVLA Website, as well as be given the trasfer papers - On receipt of payment at the same time of course.

I also do not have a problem in giving the details of the hospice, once the donation has been made, in case anybody wants to check up on that part.

What is your name and where do you play poker?

I'm Keith Hawkins and I play mostly online, sometimes at the Vic in London and sometimes in Las Vegas.

Am i seeing this right, this thread cant be for real surely?

ffs i always thought you was simon

I mostly play in the North East and occasionally online.  I am not a big stakes player, and mostly play tournaments rather than cash games.
Like i said i treat poker as an enjoyable passtime, rather than thinking i can make a long term profit at it.  I know that there are those
who do very well from it, much better than myself, however i just enjoy the pychology and thought processses involved in the game
as much as the winning.

Damn you. You drive such a hard bargain.

£0.89

The fact you've avoided 10 questions that ask your name doesn't fill me with confidence about your intentions.

You knew about that? Thought it was before your time.

The Crimean war was before my time, and yet amazingly...

synetos.

Let me try & explain to you why you are getting a hostile reception here, & the lads are having a bit of sport with you. I don't like to see you being exposed to this, but you are not helping yourself. 

You have never posted here before, & suddenly, you sign up for one reason only - to flog a number plate.

Once you have sold it (& I promise 100% you will NEVER sell it to a blonde, at least not at those prices, please trust me) you will disappear, never to be seen again.

You are the 50th or 100th person to do this here. They just arrive, one after the other, try to flog something, then disappear. They just use blonde.

This is NOT Exchange & Mart.

In 8 cases out of 10 in examples like this, the new Member, flogging something, is a wrong 'un. Not saying you are, but the lads have had their fingers burnt too many times. Once (pre-blonde) a guy run a HUGE raffle, the prize was worth a 6 figure sum, & his wife won it.

There are loads of platforms for flogging number plates, they are ten a penny.

I'm afraid this is the wrong place for a complete stranger to just poll up & try to flog something of dubious value.

You have not helped yourself by avoiding straight questiions.

Just state...

Your real name

The locale in which you live. ("north east" is a tad vague)

The local cardroom you frequent. I am assuming it is an unlicensed cardroom, as a licensed venue would definitely not be permitted to run an auction or raffle for a number plate along the lines you suggested.

Do that, & your credibility will soar.

You also need to value the plate properly. I have no idea what the market stands for these things, but on a good day, if you are lucky, with the wind behind you, & assuming you are kosher, you would do well to get £2k.

I hope you sell the thing, & that the Hospice/Charity you are supportting does well, too.

Take care.

Lol, behave. The story was not exactly well-documented, & I'm genuinely surprised that Cos know, as he has never mentioned it on here.

Move on.

You told me about it!!!!!

I did?

Lol, incred self-bok!

I followed BA11AGH along the A66 the other day...

It was on a Smart car

I posted on blonde some time ago very flatteringly about said person and then a few old stories ame out of the woodwork about them. You called me to explain it all. Ralph will probably remember. Was over a year ago now, maybe 2.

Hang on I dont even get what HOIIDEM has to do with poker?

Or for that matter HOLL DEM, unless you have a missus called Holly, who you call Holl and then I still dont get the dem?

These plates are pathetic and make me cry a little every time I see one.

This is actually the first time I've heard of a personalised number plate that I thought was cool.

I'm assuming they didn't pay more than £50 for a plate that slightly remsembles BALLA, in a crap sort of way, and then because it's a crap number plate, they stuck it on a crap car.

Pretty funny and taking the piss out of people that would spend 10k for plates like HO11 DEM imo.

What are the cash games like?

Is there a soft 1/2 game going?

Has anyone called the police yet?

I saw a new BMW 5 series the other day with the plate DU11 FKA.
Made me smile anyway.

OK Guys

Fair point

The reasons why i wont give out personal information on an internet forum are the same reasons why some people
think this is a scam - So far all i have received from the MAJORITY of people on this thread is personal ABUSE
I WILL NOT subject myself to further abuse hence i will not give out further details of myself on an OPEN forum.
Should someone have come forward with what i thought may have been a GENUINE offer or expression of interest,
then i would have no problem in actually meeting up IN PERSON with all the necessary paperwork (whcih i have
allready posted a picture of on here) and also would have invited them to the hospice to see the great work that is going
on which will be further enhanced by the donation made.  ANY GENUINE purchasr would not have a problem with that as they
would then see first hand for themselves.

Im not going to waste my time with this forum anymore.

I understand that others in the past have damaged the future possibillities of such a thing in the future.
Its a sad world to think that all people are tagged with the same doubts.  At this moment in time i was merely
wanting to find out levels of interest whether or not it would be viable to open up a raffle to a wider audience
in order to raise a better sum for the hospice, but i will stick to the smaller scale venue, where i will not be
ridiculed for trying to raise some money for charity.

I find my experiences of this forum to be quite sad really, as i was always led to believe the online community
was usually quite helpful.

Sorry for wasting everyones time, if you feel like that, and thank you to the one ot maybe two people who actually
made a positive suggestion.  To those of you who took the initiative to deliver personal insults then please, grow up.

It is - online communities thrive on mutual help.

They're not so great with strangers who think we owe them a favour.

As has been said, Autocar's website is someplace else.

If you want to help a hospice which has been good to you or your family then that, of course, is great. But you weren't planning to help them, were you? You expected one of us to do it, whilst you had your costs covered and suffered no financial loss, whilst you still got the reflected glory of making a 'donation' (with someone else's money).

Well I'm sorry you feel that, as I invested 15 minutes of my time trying to explain why it all went a bit wrong, & how to rectify it.

I cannot imagine you will get a much different response on any Poker Forum.

You cannnot just blame the guys here, for the reasons I explained at length, you have not helped yourself, with due respect.

I dont think anyone owes me a favour.

AGAIN I will state that posting on here was given to me as a suggestion to gage interest.

I know you feel that i have treat this forum like Exchange and Mart, but the logic of
posting here because of its poker relevance surely must be appernt to the most idiotic of posters.

And yes by making a donation it does help the hospice and yes technically it does come from my pocket,
because at the end of the day i could have done what others have done in the past and bought a plate
cheaplly and try to flop it to make money myself - the WHOLE financial MARKET value of whatever i own belongs
EXCLUSIVELY to me - if someone can make a profit from it then they will - THATS THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS
YOU PAY PROFITS ON EVERYTHING YOU BUY - if i decide to use some of that money to make a donation then
technically the money still comes from my INITIATIVE to do something positive.  If the market dictates that the plate is only worth
what i paid for it then i would still donate 50% of whatever i sold it for to the hospice - but given that it is valued
at a particular price i am not going to just give it away for nothing - i would sooner look at other options to raise money as
an alternative idea.

Yes Tikay I take your points - surely you can take mine - i figure that if someone IS GENUINELY interested then surely meeting in
person and taking the time to even visit the hospice is a more desirable way of conducting the transaction rather than through
a forum.

Being ABUSED from the off does not sit pretty with me - but like i posted at the end of my last post i would like
to thank the couple of guys who did make positive contributions - yourself included.

They are good bunch on here.  The wealth of useful information I've gained from here over the past few years has been great.  As has been said, you can't just come on to a forum trying to flog stuff, poker related or not.

Maybe if someone on here knows you and can vouch for you then all of this would have stopped straight away.  FWIW, no one on here knows me so the last thing I'd do is try to sell something for a 4 figure sum, despite being a member for a few years and having a number of posts!

GL with this.

synetos.......

Here's an example of how the blondes usually help, if the OP is reasonable, & well put together......

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=57155.msg1532631;boardseen#new

the guy might be a scammer but i don't agree with the posts saying that he's "using" the forum or that online comunites are of mutual benefit and that he's not participating in that, if he thinks(and the buyer does too) that the price is fair then surely it's been of mutual benefit and he's done someone in the poker world(and on blonde) a favour

from what i can see it's not that he's come on trying to flog it that's got people's backs up it's the price, like i stated he might be a scammer therefore flame away but if he came on and said: "here you go chaps, have this for £100, first come first serve" then would that qualify as being of benefit for the forum if he turned out to be legit? it seems so to me.

if he's sitting in a pub and tells a pal he has a poker related number plate and wants to sell it, where could he sell something so specialised and his mate says try a poker forum, that would sound like a sensible idea to me, the perfect place for his target market, a lot of poker players, some with enough disposable income to be able to afford it, if they can then great if they can't no big deal but he gets the third degree, probably goes back to his mate and says what the hell was that about, i went on there and they chased me off because i hadnt contributed to the community enough, i just want to sell a poker number plate not discuss online poker all day

I`d seen that reg by chance a few days previous

Knew it was up online for 6k odd (regtransfers)

When the "charity" bit was thrown in,piped up because didnt want anyone to get nipped

No mention of it being touted elsewhere,so thought it was the right thing to do after discussions of a £50 a ticket auction that may or may not have gone up in smoke

Thanks for the example Tikay, nice to see some of the helpful nature of the online community that i had heard about.

Again i take your point about the original post (im assuming thats what u mean by OP) needs to be reasonable and well put together.

I DID NOT expect in any way to just turn up on this forum and have a mutitude of people falling over themselves to offer to buy
the registration plate from me - There are a number of reasons why :

1)  The MAJORITY of people do not have that kind of money to spend individually on a luxury such as a car registration plate, however given that
I assume that this forum is visited by some of the top pros (as it was suggested this is the most active forum)  then if there was a player who was
interested in buying it then the forum would have been the only place i could think of to "advertise" it as an option,  I do appreciate that it would
appear that i may be using the forum as an "Exchange and Mart" but surely as a forum then this would not really be that much as an issue as i am
sure that over the years you have had a multitude of posts about a wide variety of things - given that some will have been genuine and some scams.

2) The idea of raffling something and getting people who do not know me to buy a ticket for something that may not exist is ludicrous at best.
I UNDERSTAND THIS - My post, Like allready stated, was mainly about trying to see what people thought of it as an IDEA to see if it could be VIABLE
to be held at a large poker festival somewhere - IF this option was to be explored then obviously i would need to check out a number of issues -
The casinos / card rooms may not allow this anyway as i am not sure how raffles are regulated under the licensing laws - HOWEVER someone suggested
that because it is to raise money for charity then this is acceptable - i would need to have checked into this further.

AGAIN as allready stated i would look to show the credibility of this by either meeting any purchaser in person and showing them around the hospice then going through
the necessary paperwork together OR If the raffle was to take place i would look at getting the hospice involved to have a representative actually
turn up at the decided venue so that would be raffle purchasers can see and learn a bit about the work that the donation will be helping.

What like an Aston or Bentley?

What's your name synetos?

Thanks for these sentiments ohdear, i think you have pretty much nailed it.

Whilst I'm not the most well known on the forum, I'm 99% certain I know this person, and have had this mentioned to me at the tables. I don't know the guy well at all, but from what i do know he is reputable, and mentioned the charitable side at the table a few weeks ago. He doesn't know I am a blonde member, and has no way of knowing who i am currently, but i will be messaging him after this post. I appreciate the nature of the thread is rough for both sides, but hopefully I can give some credibility to the post.

Sir, this is (probably) a player from our local card room, if you could assist with the shitstorm.

It may have been me that used the word, I'm not sure, but perhaps "credibility" is not the correct word.

The point is, 50 or 100 newbies have signed up to blonde down the years for no other purpose other than to to flog personalised, or "cherished" car number plates. I very much doubt if a single sale has ensued. The number plate market is very open & transparent, & anyone can buy them from source, & poker players are sharp enough to know that. Most of the plates offered are pretty naff, too. Why would anyone want a plate that reads "Hold Em"?

"Poker", "Raise" etc have some attraction to some, but it's thin really.

I think the blondes, as a collective, rather tire of same old same old, & as a result, they have a little sport. I don't like to see it, it makes me cringe to be honest, but you can understand where they are coming from.

Even one long-term blonde who over-did the selling number plates malarky got chased away after it kicked off on here. A shame, as he is a good friend of mine, & remains so, but it's a sensitive area, when people come here for no other reason than to flog their wares, with little prospect of ever contributing anything to the Community.

As welcoming as I want to be to Mr Synetos, I did try very hard to explain to him how the land lies.

Camel's comments on this thread have nothing whatsoever to do with this particular plate, or thread, he just has a long-term loathing of the folks who buy them, & has stated it often, over many years. Anyone who tries to flog a plate, be it a newbie or veteran blonde, will get exactly the same treatment from him.

PS - I was offered "T1KAY", but I was scared that Camel would a shout at me. ;)

Sir???
is you saying that 'cos I is old?

anyway, I'm more than happy to go with your read on the OP being genuine and although the idea of marketing a vanity plate on Blonde isn't popular, anything that raises funds for Butterwick Hospice is to be seen as a good thing.

Maybe the attack dogs could back off a little?

Fml. I have CASINO 1, OOO ACES and MY O ACES. Can you give em a score on your naff'o'meter plz Tikay.

And i appreciated your time to do so Tikay, but as explained before - after receiving scathing attacks and personal abuse from the off, I am
unlikely to want to further post specifics about who i am - After all the people who have been abusive towards me all hide under usernames
on a forum too - I dare say that the Majority would not say the same to my face if i was out on the street collecting for a hospice.

Fwiw T1KAY would actually be pretty cool because it would look correct.

HO11DEM doesn't look correct because unless you hadn't noticed there's only 1 'L' in the word you're trying to represent.

FL11SHY is also pretty shite because you have to put a screw in it to try to make 11 look like a 'U'.

Plates where you have to alter the shape of letters or numbers in a desperate attempt to spell a word are pathetic.

The one's where they don't need any alteration are fine imo.

I quite fancied getting RU55ELL for this reason. Unfortunately it cost nearly as much as my house so I had to leave it.

I'm going to guess at:

CA51NOL

OO04CES

MY04CES

Sorry Jase. All pretty naff.

Lol, leave me out of this Jason, I'm trying to sit on a bloody uncomfy fence here!


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I am sure every one of us admire the good work you are doing for a most worthy cause.

Lets move on now.

Agreed, please can you close this post, as i do not want to spend any more time in trying to justify my intentions
to be ridiculed.

To those of you who contributed positively, then I would like to express my sincere gratitude, especially to
the 2 guys who know me from our local cardroom.  Baptism of fire is the only way i can describe my initiation
onto this forum, but i do understand all points put forward by sceptics as well as the supporters.

I also appreciate your contribution as admin Tikay and hope your backside recovers from any damage
caused by that somewhat uncomfortable looking fence i put you on.  :)

yes. So is my house :) sic brag that yours costs as much as RU55ELL

not really. the real names of pretty much everyone who's posted on this thread are common knowledge

Common knowledge isnt something I have as a new member.

Stands to reason to assume that though if you think about it.

Would be if you posted your name.

If you woulda came on and said, hi, my name is xxxxxxxxxx. I live in the north east, I know xxxxxxx, you woulda got a lot more of a welcome imo.

The way you did it just made people wary.

What to be abused further ?

No thanks, i will stick to focussing my efforts and giving my time to genuine people who i can mutually build
up a level of trust with face to face.  

Again Please can an administrator lock this thread now.  

Im growing weary of having to justify my intentions to people when all i was trying to do was gage a level of interest in something i thought worthwhile.

Understood Celtic - something for me to think about in the future, however i somewhat doubt i will bother again.


 

I would say this is a scam of some kind.

£0.75

you could ask anyone on this thread their name and they'd tell you. you're the only one hiding behind a username

that's fine, it's your choice but to claim that others are hiding behind usernames is just ridic

Well said Gertrude.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V3SqxUomwk&feature=player_detailpage#t=61s

Lol

Yeah ya big turd ;)

Just pretty much sums up the pathetic mentality of (SOME, NOT ALL) of the people who have posted on this thread
All i can honestly say is that one day i truly hope that a close friend or member of your family is struck down with a
horrible illness that causes them suffering and heartache and when you turn to charities for support and help that they
slam the door in your face because they instantly recognise you for what you are with comments like that.  A
pathetic unempathic moron who is nothing but a drain on society.

gg sir

Read what you just wrote few times and reflect on it.

Shame on you Sir. Shame on you.

He only wrote it once??

Wow.  This could go either way pretty quick now.  Deffo not cool.

Nope - the discussion will be rather one-sided from now on.

I think you may have missed the irony in my post

Apologies

You will be glad to know my father has just recovered from a horrible illness

I will be running twice this year with all proceeds going to relevant charities

Thanks

i kind of agreed in theory with the OP coming on if someone was getting benefit from it on the forum, i felt if the item being sold benefited someone on the forum then that could be considered part of contributing towards the forum, thats why i was arguing against the idea that its a bit selfish and one sided when someone comes on trying to sell something, i still think thats the case tbh as you could still consider it in theory as being helpful towards the forum if both parties gain something from it, this may not have been the best example to align that particular theory to in light no the OP's last comment

if a huge % of people that come here just to flog something turn out to be like that then maybe my theory is wrong and i bow to the experience of others that had the foresight to see that the OP was clearly not legit

that being said if i came across a bunch of pokemon cards and was told they was worth some money and didnt have a bunch of experience on the net and someone told me to google pokemon forum as there'd be a bunch of fans in may target market i would'nt see anything wrong in going there and seeing if anyone wanted to buy them off me and i'd be a bit surprised if i got shouted off of the forum for just turning up to flog something and not contribute etc, i wouldnt really know what i'd done wrong

  

I had to Google it out of curiosity..........can't believe it actually exists though.

http://www.pokecommunity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14 (http://www.pokecommunity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14)

Ok well due to my outburst I am banned from the forum which I
Understand and must say am glad, however on reading your reply
I felt that i should perhaps apologise for my outburst.  Please understand
that my friend was burried on Friday and i just thought my
idea may have been a nice way to pay tribute to the work that was
done with him by the hospice.

Please understand that upon a number of already personal attacks about
this post your "big turd" comment flipped a switch in me causing
me to retort. So yes I did miss the irony which is a problem with online
Communication and again i dare say most people would not have said such
Malicious things to my face.

No I most certainly am not glad to hear about your fathers illness
And I commend you in your efforts to raise money for whichever
Charities have been of support to u by doing your running.
Running has never been something I have been able or want to engage
In so i turned to what I know in order to try to raise funds.

The facts of this thread are that it was a genuine idea but
Perhaps it was executed poorly on my part.

This will be my last post on this forum, and I wasn't even going to
Bother posting this but did feel compelled to apologise about my outburt,
I guess I just saw it as quite an insuring finale to the memory
Of my friend.

Goodbye Blonde posters - it's been shall we say educational and interesting.

lol that was just the first thing that came to my head, i'm not surprised there's one tbh  :D

I wondered whatbwe would do this week now cheltenhams finished !!!
I have af08 wwm for sale on a ford ranger if willy wonkas mum wants it pm me
Or bm12 vmp on a new Nissan if anybody with a very massive penis pm me

It's a long time since I've been left truly speechless by a post on an internet forum.

But synetos managed to produce one.

Congrats sir, have a nice life.

"Unempathic" is a great word though.

Wish it actually existed

Still think you should PM CHIO MPY , pretty sure he'd buy it off you

by far the nut-low post of the year

Cherished Number Plate Information
Information about cherished number plate HO11 DEM.

Available for £5,895.00.

This registration can only be assigned to a '11' registered or newer vehicle. (Registered after 01/03/2011)

Click here to buy HO11 DEM now


http://www.cherished-number-plates.co.uk/cherished-number-plates/0/HO11%20DEM.html

Actual lol at the new username.

I can't believe I MISSED the outburst on this THREAD. Being the KIND of person that CAN'T avoid an 8 page thread from a NEW member. Can somebody PM me the OUTBURST as I am GUTTED I missed it.

I feel as a longtime poster and FRIEND of blonde I'm entitled to see it.

PS - nice to see ohdear POSTING on another thread

I posted on the likes thread as well

you probably shouldn't read those ones though, i forgot to use paragraphs again

Paragraphs are overrated ;)

it hasn't been deleted, you could just read it

LIKE

I have

PA11LHO

Number plate

Is that sad ?

+1 made me smile

Only if you use a screw between the 11 to make it look like a U!!

Yeah but his name is Paul no Paiil. If you have enough screws you could make just about anything :)

You'd need some wood too.

Whilst a lot of people, especially those who haven't posted here don't know me at all, quite a few blondes do. I'm possibly the person who suggested putting it up here, and if i went back I probably would. I understand the internet is a dark and mysterious place, and people get burnt, money can get taken and shit can go down. However, this forum seems to be one of the best for welcoming members despite being somewhat cliquey. This could have been handled a million times better by just about everyone in the thread. I will catergoricallly state that this is not a scam. The damage has been done and i think a few members on this forum really need to have a long hard look at themselves for their behaviour in this thread. Being sceptical is fine, being an asshole is not. Op came to this thread looking to raise money for a charity which is dear to his heart, and should be dear to everyones. Cancer is a horrible disease that has ravaged my own family and many more families both in Britain and around the world. After OPs treatment, and frankly bizarre callings out, he snapped and this happened.

Even if this was a scam, its not like anyone was going to get done over. Everyone was aware it COULD be, but people took it upon themselves to attack immediately. My real name is known on these boards, as is many others, but why would a new visitor post his, especially after being attacked in this manner. What fucking difference would his name have meant, when everyone was so against him?

Blonde is a great forum, I'm very happy to be here and try and contribute, but this thread is absolutely disgusting. Instead of a ccharitable auction taking place, another human was made to snap, at a difficult point in his life. If everyone was that scared, there were a hundred better ways to try and sort the situation, including just a polite, thanks but no thanks. Attacking someone, calling them out, and general ridicule shouldn't be acceptable, in a thread which ultimately, was about raising money for a cause we all support. I wish I had spoken to OP more, and structured the thread in a better manner, but I didn't know he was doing this right now, and I don't have contact details despite knowing him. I was so enraged at this thread, i spent £5 on train wifi. Not my most pleasant experience, but whatever. This needed to be said. I left my real name, in case someone didn't know, and as we all know this makes anything i saw invalid. I mean what the fuck, if he'd posted his real name would it have made a difference? Its not like he knows anyone anyway. Ridiculous and depressing.

Adam Picken

Reread the thread, and i still feel the above is justified. The scepticism after he proved he owned the plate is unbelievable lol. This is very cause and effect.

He posts > People troll
He responds > people troll
He proves he owns plate > people troll and then ask for his name.

Does it surprise anyone he didn't feel comfortable posting his name?

OK personalised plates aren't everyone's cup of tea, but surely a "best of luck" is better than "I'm an established blonde member, you are not". I've frequented many forums in my time, but Blonde certainly isn't one where i expected the "post count = penis size" mentality to rain. What a mess.

If you'd have given him a chance this would have been fine, and possibly worked to raise some money. I believe Tikay said "Good luck getting a licensed card room to auction it" (in a polite way). He already has permission off one local casino, but the plate would have definitely raised more here/DTD, if people had given it a chance.

rfgqqabc - your comment made me reread the thread as well, to see if you might be right but, nope.

Look at his first reply to The Camel - threw his toys out of the pram simply because someone had a dig at people who buy personalised number plates. His second reply is worse - he starts with the personal insults.

Following that he can have no complaint at how the thread turned out.

Well played for coming on to defend your friend. However, you are fighting a losing battle. There was a lot of banter in the thread, mainly light hearted. Then he turned around and does the unforiveable by wishing a horrible illness on people or their families.

No excuse is ever acceptable for that.

I did not see that, obviously you are correct in this respect. Clusterfuck completely everywhere.

Andrew, the trolling starts at post 2 and continues for pages.

edit: I didn't read page 8 very well at all, and what he said is so far out of line its untrue. However, i think a lot of what I said is true.

Not so much a friend as a guy I've played with, who i know to have the plate and have the intention of giving the proceeds to charity!

Level?

Of course it makes a difference.

but you re-read the thread. it's still up where he posted it and it's been quoted at least 3 times

Even after the posted the picture of the DVLA thing, people still questioned his ownership. Lets be honest, in his situation no one would post there name. He handled the situation poorly at first, and ultimately snapped in an unacceptable manner, i just wish to highlight the fact that he is not the only one guilty of behaving inappropriately, even if what he said is far worse than others actions.

Adam

He wasn't to know this, but he would never have raised a penny on here from someone buying the plate. There's a long and unfortunate history on here with car plate threads, for starters, and people are extremely wary of others motives with these types of threads.

It's also very easy for a new member to completely misunderstand the humour behind some of the replies. This isn't his fault

tikay tried to explain everything several times, politely and in depth, to help him understand

In the end he completely took the wrong end of the stick on a very dry,ironic remark and made a frankly disgusting post.

Its a shame all round, but it wasn't as if people weren't trying to make him see the bigger picture on here

[  ] Trolling

[X] The way most threads turn out on here

The guy was an absolute bellend of a troll who wish ill health on someone because he couldn't sell a number plate

good riddance!

Guy,

there's no need to use the phrase "absolute bellend of a troll" either!

Just not helpful is it?

I don't know if anybody's interested but I've bought the plate and I'm interested in selling it on.

Conclusive proof of ownership is below in case anybody has any doubts whatsoever about the validity of this.

(http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=57147.0;attach=33852;image)

I'll swop it for one EV 11 PIE. Sorry cant prove ownership either.

Whilst what he said was wrong, his heart was in the right place, and all it would have taken was a personal message or someone to tell him he had no chance. I saw you post saying that, but if someone had messaged him it would hav e been settled. I know I'm up against it here, but I don't feel like anything i said was wrong. The trolling in a thread about a charity auction, in which the person clearly states, "This is for a friend who recently passed away", is virtually as bad as what he said. I'm just asking for people to think about the situation and respond accordingly, the banter and trolling on blonde is amusing, but in this thread, really?

For the most part Mr Tightend sir, trying to make him see the bigger picture consisted of "£2.45" and "LOL license plates, tatoos are where its at now son."

If I go to the next charity thread on here, start questioning people, even post DVLA proof, then i hope someone calls me out on it too.

Whatever Evil, if someone had really tried to help, and actually messaged him or asked for other details, perhaps before the mountains of trolls descended from there homes on the mountaintop or from underneath their bridges then something could of been worked out here. Even if that was a thanks but no thanks

2 raffle tickets pls

Adam

I happen to agree with you that on forums a "mob mentality" piling into an easy target is very undesirable. All I am trying to say was that attempts were made to give the new poster some perspective and context on why people were reacting as they were.

I happen to believe that describing as trolls people who were posting "£2.45" etc is a bit OTT. It was obviously lighthearted

you may be making great points but no-one's going to listen when you're trying to justify the actions of someone who's made one of the most unacceptable posts I've ever read on here

just give up

As soon as he swerved telling people his name he was screwed to be honest.

He actually started off pretty well with a light hearted reply to Ironside's first £2.50 offer. His posts were also reasonably articulate and appeared well thought out until the infamous dig at the guy hiding behind the Blonde name StuartHopkin.

He said that telling people his name wouldn't make a difference? Well I'm sorry but that's just plain wrong.

If he'd come on and said that he was an acquaintance/friend of Adam Picken who posts as rfgqqabc and had been pointed in this direction by him that would've been a great start.

To have then added that his name is xxx and he plays at such and such a card room with Adam would have added a huge amount of credibility. Certainly more than posting a picture of a document that anybody can grab of the internet.

I think he just wanted to shift a number plate he overpaid for.

He thought the idea of making some of the money going to charity would make it easier to sell.

His motives and behaviour were shady from the start.

He was trying to use this forum for his own ends and when he was sussed out he threw his toys out of the pram in the most spectacular way.

All the arguments aside.

Ban Guy imo.  ;)

StuHopkins post was funny and i can't see how that could be misinterpreted, its in his name.. Also i shouldn't admit it but boshi's Gertrude comment had me laughing the most.

I have had all sort of illnesses wished on myself, my family, and even my pets in poker chat boxes. Stuff like that make me  :'(

This probably isn't the best time to bring it up but i really do have some pokemon cards for sale

If I were going to spend 5 grand on a number plate, I'm not, the first thing I'd want to know is who I'm potentially buying it from.

he has a point, ban me till next wednesday!  ;D

fyp

done

Gtfo. You've already ruined our quiz by running it on your own time frame.  Hope your computer smokes and you end up having to do the reveal by phone :)

I absolutely agree... the trolls were the ones posting £2.50 & £2.49!!

ffs i put in a bid to start the ball rolling cant call me a troll for that

not my fault people thought i had over bid

In all honesty rfgqqabc if a stranger posts on a new forum looking for thousands of pounds he will be pissing into the wind from the start. Isn't that obvious? So he better get the presentation and marketing of his product spot on. Yet on page 2 the dude says "I AM NOT really that bothered about selling it as I bought it for myself anyway" and "If it doesn't sell then i really am not that bothered" I don't know why you think people should have been all that bothered about buying it when yo mate isn't all that bothered about selling it. If your venture is piss poor in every aspect then the results you get will be piss poor. Hey presto.

Tell ur mate to have more enthusiasm for his product next time. I mean any product that does well in a designated market place wont have the strap line "not bothered" contained within it. Nike don't say "Just don't bother" and L'Oreal don't say "Who cares if ur worth it". Nah it's just not very catchy buddy. President Obama said "Yes we can" not "No we can't be bothered". It sends out all the wrong messages and is a piss poor approach to sales. Don't think the results of this thread are anybody's fault but op tbh.

All points valid. The post had a long way to come before much could take place, but it should have been given a chance. The nature of the thread is clearly something that was important to the OP, emotionally, means he should have been given more respect.

If i had known he was posting it, i would have responded quicker, as such, I'm at home at the moment, so I've not been in the casino for a while.

offer you 5£ for it but 4.99 must go to a charity which one i dont mind

deal, the charity of my choice is the 'steroids for under privileged bodybuilders fund'

what cards do u have?
I used to love playing pokemon and magic so fun.

but I swapped my pokemon collection for a bucket of kfc i think

you got ripped off if it was a bargain bucket, pretty good deal though if it was a variety one

i don't know what ones i've got because i've got so many but they're pretty much the best ones you can get, i'll upload a pic.........

(http://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/pokemon_cards_thumb.jpg)

as you can see it's a pretty good collection and it comes with my guarantee that they're all real and genuine and that's definitely a picture that i took just now and not something that just came up when i typed pokemon cards into google images

where are ur shiney/rare ones?

dont wanna buy if its all bills and professor oaks

even tho they were ultimate cheese!

never scam about something you know nothing about, shit!

i'm going to pretend i know what "bills" and "proffessor oaks" are though to keep the scam alive.....

the shiney rare ones are hidden underneath the rest on account of how rare and shiney they are  :)up

Love the Ho.

but leave before she wakes up in the morning

woah swerved!!!!

Only card game you was ever any good at. ZING.

Don't need HOILDEM ta, only a year till I can buy CH13MPY. Will raffle off CH10MPY.

i'll throw in the remains of a fillet burger meal i had last night and an autographed picture of me and pikachu shagging a prostitute?

I think i will just donate to 'steroids for under privileged bodybuilders fund and not buy the remains of a fillet burger and a pic of a threesome with u, pikachu and a hooker in

if it was misty i would consider it......

also u was very lucky u was donating to 'steroids for under privileged bodybuilders fund with out the gesture I would of never bought your pokemon cards

tbf the prostitute did look a bit like misty if you imagine misty 30 years older and had sold all her pokemon for crack

Wow 12 pages! Cliffs please, who bought it?

Nobody bought it. Some bloke wants Stuart Hopkin's family done over though.

Whole lot of japery to be had with that spiffing collection...

£4.50 and I'll let you throw the p&p in

xx

why dont u just read it?

Yeah you tell him Ho.

Op bought it. Got totally gunned down :(

It was a joke. Of course I read it. Now go and play pokesnap with your friend

I think there was some Irony in the Ho's response to be fair.

pokesnap nice comeback

thank you for offering to support Butterwick Hospice a fitting tribute to your friend, I would be grateful if you would contact me at the hospice on 01642 628930 with regards to your offer

Pokesnap?? Cliffs please

Am I the only one wondering what car you must drive, if you had to follow a Smart car for a long way?

he was walking

You've obviously not driven that stretch of the A66 in the morning peak period