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post #1 of 32
5/5/05 at 11:02pm
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I'm selling a bunch of stuff on ebay - maternity, nursing, kids' stuff, slings - and I decided to add an intactivist PSA to the bottom of each listing!

It says:

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Public Service Announcement: Expecting a baby boy? Take the whole baby home! Educate yourself about circumcision. See http://oknocirc.blogspot.com

Yep, that's feebeeglee's website!

Hope I don't get flamed, : but hey, however I can get the word out....

Now, if anyone can tell me how to make the link look like this on ebay:

Educate yourself about circumcision.

that would be great. I tried using the same code as is used here but that didn't work.

ETA: See post #16 from feebeeglee - it's working! People are clicking through!
post #2 of 32
5/5/05 at 11:16pm
I think you'll need to use HTML on ebay. Try this:
<a href=http://oknocirc.blogspot.com/>Educate yourself about circumcision</a>

It's a great idea! I hope you help keep some little guys intact!
post #3 of 32
5/6/05 at 12:23am
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Thanks, Jess, it worked!
post #4 of 32
5/6/05 at 1:10am
Quirky, what a FANTASTIC idea!!!!!

We're getting ready to sell several hundred things on eBay. Would you mind if we copied your idea?

(HA! Like you'd mind, right?)
post #5 of 32
5/6/05 at 1:18am
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Be my guest! Wow, several hundred listings - it's taken me hours to get 13 listings up today! Of course, I've revised them multiple times to put in all the things I forgot, like non-smoking home, plus editing the intactivist PSA to use HTML...I've got some more to do, I hope it will get faster!
post #6 of 32
5/6/05 at 1:32am
"several hundred" Yeah! It's going to take forever. LOL

We just moved into an 864 sf rowhouse with onstreet parking from a 2100 sf Victorian with a four car garage. We need to downsize a LOT. Thankfully (in a way) we don't have to worry about all of our family antiques. They just were destroyed in a fire in my grandparents' garage. That's ONE way to unload stuff, right? (trying to be optimistic)

Anyway, we're selling all of my 1940s vintage clothing and shoes, from a 'thing' I had for a few years and am over now. Lots of computer stuff, books, porn! , CDs, household stuff, decorations etc., etc., etc.

It's going to be a slow process, but worth it financially. It will help pay for Jett's surgery.

And, if it can help other little boys, too....all the better!!!!
post #7 of 32
5/6/05 at 1:37am
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Did you say FOUR CAR garage? : I'm sorry about your losing your family antiques...that bites.

And I'm sorry your son has to have surgery. Poor little guy. I hope he makes a speedy recovery.
post #8 of 32
5/6/05 at 2:01am
Yeah...property is dirt cheap in Indiana. We bought this bigazz brick Victorian with two lots in an adorable tiny town for 87,900. It needed a lot of work...so, we restored it to all historically correct everything. Except we did the kitchen as a perfect 40s resto. It was an amazing place. But we lost our jobs and had to move. Sold it for, get this...96,000. F'ing sad, isn't it? Out here in PA, it would easily have been half a mil.

So, we move around a bunch, keep our stuff in storage...finally go to buy a place in Bethlehem, PA and bought a tiny little rowhouse in a kinda rough, working class neighborhood with dogpiss carpet and a billion other problems....for get this....86,000.

Funny, in a George W. Economics sort of way.
post #9 of 32
5/6/05 at 2:03am
Oh, let me add....sorry. I didn't mean to hijack the thread.

Back to eBay and penises, Folks.
post #10 of 32
5/6/05 at 2:14am
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I hope things turn around for you soon, mama.
post #11 of 32
5/6/05 at 3:45am
Quirky that is a FANTASTIC idea!

I was thinking about writing nocirc messages on all my paper money, myself.
post #12 of 32
5/6/05 at 9:14am
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Cool! What would you write?
post #13 of 32
5/6/05 at 5:43pm
I'm not sure, since it would really have to pique somene's interest YK? I happened to have a tenner on me I'm going to change for bus fare today and I wrote Get the TRUTH about CIRCUMCISION: www.nocirc.org.

If anyone else wants to write messages on their money (I wrote political messages during the election) remember that it has to be short and sweet but stick in someone's head enough to look it up later. $1's circulate for about a year, and the higher the denomination the longer its circulation life. It works best if you just get in the habit of writing a partcular thing every time you get paper money, so you become a little message-spreading virus
post #14 of 32
5/6/05 at 11:35pm
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Originally Posted by girlndocs
I'm not sure, since it would really have to pique somene's interest YK? I happened to have a tenner on me I'm going to change for bus fare today and I wrote Get the TRUTH about CIRCUMCISION: www.nocirc.org
Before people use the name or url or whatever of another person or organization for this purpose, they should probably get permission from them first.

I looked into this myself a few years back and found a number of sites about the legalities of 'defacement' of currency. Basically the State will ignore it as long as (A) bills can still be read by machinery, which means only write on them in the open areas and keep them legible, and (B) it only happens on a relatively tiny individual scale.

If people are going to be serious about it, they should probably get a rubber stamp made. They can also add such messages to their preprinted checks.

I wonder what prices are like for those 'return address' stamps, and whether NOCIRC or NORM or NOHARMM have donative programs for them. . . .
post #15 of 32
5/7/05 at 12:06am
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Another way to raise money for the cause is to start your internet shopping through a site like www.igive.com - I don't know if other intactivist groups are registered, but I have www.notjustskin.org registered to get a percentage of sales from my online purchases started through iGive.
post #16 of 32
5/7/05 at 1:34pm
I keep track of referrers on that page - and I'm getting them from the eBay listings! In other words, it works!

Awesome idea!
post #17 of 32
5/7/05 at 2:41pm
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OMG, that's AWESOME! ! I have 25 auctions up right now for baby stuff (maternity, nursing, baby gear)....but I'm not a professional ebayer so this isn't going to keep up forever. I hope anyone else here who ebays will pick up on this idea!
post #18 of 32
6/18/05 at 9:15pm
Ok, so I dragged this thread up again because I just added an anti-circ link to my ebay baby/child stuff auctions. (I stole your idea and link Quirky, hope you don't mind.) Did you get any flames from people when you did this? Should I bother adding an anti-circ message on to my non-baby stuff auctions? (I'm also selling some non-maternity womens clothing...)
post #19 of 32
6/18/05 at 10:02pm
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Nope, I didn't get any flames, and please feel free to copy the link! I love feebeeglee's site, I think it's awesome. I know she got traffic from ebay, so it worked. I would say, why not add it to your other auctions? Everyone knows someone who's expecting a boy.

I didn't get any flames - although I have no idea whether would-be buyers decided not to buy because of it.
post #20 of 32
6/18/05 at 10:40pm
ok, I will
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