[Typo3-marketing] typo3 on ebay

[Sipke Overbeeke]

Hello Joey,

I'm a subscriber to the Typo3 marketinglist and was following your discussion
regarding the auction on eBay. I was also the one that was bidding for the
typo3 page yesterday and therefor it was no pricepusher but me. I don't even
know the guy offering the pages.
I think that maybe you should let the next one slip and maybe even the ones
after that. I will till you why that seems a good idea to me. I am interested
for a long time in Typo3, I've been experimenting with it a lot, but 
due to the
fact that I'm not all that technical and do not have the time and money 
to learn
all the ins and out I stopped using it. I think that there are hundreds of
people like me around that like the idea of Typo3 but don't have the money and
knowledge to use it.
The way this guy offers it, is a way to let people sniff at a genuine 
typo3 page
for a small amount of money. So therefore I think that Typo3 would 
benifit from
letting the auctions go and even promote them to get more people into 
using the
great software.
In my opinion it could turn out a far better marketing instrument then 
the logo
redesign or stashes of white papers.

I'm wondering what your opinion is on this.

Kind regards,

Sipke

Quoting "JoH - cybercr at ft" <info at cybercraft.de>:

>>>> Was the marketing-list with the descussion about the case with Typo3
>>>> on ebay ?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, here we go again:
>>>>
>>>
> http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22365&item=3867449320&rd
>>> =1
>>>>
>>>> (2 hours left, still 1 Euro)
>>>
>>> GOTCHA!!! :-p
>>> He is going to be the cheapest employee we ever had ...
>>>
>>> I will keep you informed ...
>>
>> Why did you not let Mathias take it and making him do something for
>> TYPO3.org?
>>
>> Did you miss his message?
>
> The GOTCHA wasn't aimed at Mathias but at the guy on ebay. There was no
> username to be identified as Mathias (or maybe I missed this?) so I just
> wanted to make sure that the one with the "0" was not the pusher this guy
> has been using to raise the price. There are several other auctions too and
> I am planning to get them all so that we get more pages out of it. After
> that he might be lucky that he is not forced to do 11 different designs but
> only two or three. One of them will be typo3.org.
> To make sure he doesn't know what is happening, the contact is made with the
> IMP GmbH in Meerbusch, that has nothing to do with TYPO3. So let's wait 8
> days until "logomotive" wins all the auctions and we can open the box, OK?
>
> Joey
>
>
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