Have coffee with Tim Cook – a charity auction

[ignostic]

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

[rwbt]

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

[napolux]

I agree.

[jordn]

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.

[pc86]

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.

[pdenya]

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.

[dot]

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

[jason_slack]

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

[bryanjclark]

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

[napolux]

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?

[adlpz]

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.

[kondor6c]

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)

[alimoeeny]

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

[joezhou]

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

[jason_slack]

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_slack]

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...