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great comment! i totally agree . . it's easier to throw rocks at a house than build one!

Thanks Gary. Unfortunately, there seems to be an overabundance of rocks lying around these days.

I'm just glad that those people who are most in need will probably never see how the very sources of their survival are debated in such conversations and arguments, both online and off. Can we say red tape?

It's easy to argue ethics and motive on a full stomach. But try it when you haven't eaten anything for a month. That's what I say.

Yes, the cause is a great one and I agree with you completely.

yup, I would agree with Wendy...John, you rock like the country :lol:

Not too many people go out of their way to do what Alex is doing. Great job Alex!!!

Thank you Carl, I appreciate it.

i would try to write one also, but for now, my blog doesn't fit at all for that.

But my next blogs will do it.

after all it's for the charity:)

Not as if Google is snooping around at this.

I don't think getting higher on Google's searches is considered cheating or exploiting. Popularity means you should be high in the first place.

this is what people on payperpost PAY for

Great Mike - I really appreciate it, thank you. :wink:

define dot come mogul :twisted:

define dot com mogul :twisted:

dot com mogul = EVIL :twisted:

double postin dot com moguls :)

Thats true charity, I would participate in that for sure.

If the person was still running this id definitely post more about it

Yeah, as you may have gathered, I probably wont be providing a link :oops: but I paid his site a visit all the same...

A buzz is only good if it breaks out of the comments and turns into links!

or increases traffic to your site.

Yeah, it's questionable but since it is being promoted by the root of all evil...

Either his ideas are duplicated or he is so evil that he made a time machine, goes into the future and rips off great ideas!!

:twisted:

I think there is an important distinction between what John has done and Alex is doing.

1) John is running a competition, people want a Wii, john has lots of readers, John runs a competition.

2) When John ran something for charity a while back he said

"give money to this charity and I will match it to a total value of $500"

No commercial gain for John in doing this, other than a bit of PR perhaps.

3) Alex is mixing charity with a business opportunity, a different animal all together, it raises a lot of ethical problems.

There is another argument you could put in defence of Alex, which is Johns Wii cost him nothing (I dont think), whareas Alex is digging into his own pockets, and doing some good with the money.

In that sense Alex is being more generous, but for me the mix of opportunity and charity is a bit too close to the wire.

honestly . . if you were a charity, would you really mind being exploited if it increased the bottom line and gave you more opportunities to support your cause?

I don't think it exploits the charity so much as it does the people that are doing the work in which he will also make an ultimate gain from.

Errrrrrm, yes I think I would, its a question of ethics.

I am sure they will be grateful of the $500 all the same, they will be better off with it than without it....

The problem (as I see it) is the result he is hoping to achieve is a steal at $500.

He is clearly benefiting more than the charity is.

Yes Steve, I wish I had jsut said that and saved my fingers!