CAG Video Game/Toy Drive for Child's Play Charity

has anyone addressed when the last day for this will be?

i have some ebay auctions ending this week, so i'll have some money in my paypal account in a few days (assuming these people pay me). i would imagine that this will be going on at least until the end of the week, but i would just like to be sure.
 
[quote name='thatstoobad']has anyone addressed when the last day for this will be?
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We will probably want to start sending the stuff out the first week or two of December.
 
wow still only 22 if I read this right???? even if you just gave a $1 donation with as many of us as there is we would make a huge donation. That is just my opinion though I have donated once and will do so again if I get paid on auctions ending this week.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']Hey cheapy d, any ideas on what is going to be purchased, or at least what are the items that are most wanted to be purchased?[/quote]
I'm thinking we start with Gamecubes for all 5 hospitals, but I'll put it up for discussion once we get a little closer to December.
 
if we have extra we can purchase some educational books/games for younger kids. i bought some books/movies (i think the lion king) from the children's hospital list on amazon.com for the kids.
 
I'll be sending in a couple of games. Cheapasses we may be, but dammit, we've still got good hearts!!! Peace on earth and goodwill to men, bitches!
 
I wish I could get paypal. I'll see if I can send a game or two out since I have some sealed Xbox games from TRU that were leftovers from the half off sale. Hopefully I can do something. :)
 
IMPORTANT INFO for any of you who ordered from the Amazon wishlists.

Child's Play needs your help!

Mon, November 15 2004 - 11:40 PM
by: Gabe

*****UPDATE!!!*****

I CHANGED THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR AMAZON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST. SO IF YOU MAILED THEM USING THE OLD ONE, AND IT BOUNCED USE THIS NEW ONE.

*******************

It is time again for me to call upon the awesome might of our combined readership. Today we need to focus the PA laser directly on Amazon. Let me explain to you the problem we’re having with the hospital wish lists this year.

Here's the issue: Amazon sells Amazon inventory, Merchant partner inventory, and Market (user/small business) inventory. Some Merchant inventory (like Toys R Us) is shipped out of Amazon-owned warehouses. Some Merchant inventory (like GameStop and Office Depot) is shipped out of Merchant-owned warehouses. *All* Market inventory is shipped out of the user's home/warehouse. The Merchant's system is supposed to be a good thing because the Merchant with the lowest price "wins" the buy box--basically the lowest price floats to the top. Too bad this system perfectly wrecks Amazon's Wish list system.

The problem is that Amazon's privacy policy doesn't allow it to give out Amazon customer addresses to third parties without the address-owner's consent. So if you order a game, and GameStop wins the buy box on Amazon, and you want to ship it to yourself--that's no problem since you're giving consent to Amazon to pass your info to GameStop. But if you try to order that game off of a buddy's wish list (or a hospital's wish list), and GameStop has the lowest price and wins the buy box--Amazon balks because Amazon doesn't know if your buddy wanted GameStop to have his address. So the order just shuts down and cannot be completed.

It's fucked up because there's no work-around. The wish list creator can't specify that only Amazon-owned inventory be made available through the wish list. And the creator can't give explicit permission that his address be allowed to be shared. That's the really messed up part: we state the hospital's address right there on every single page of the (public) wish list yet Amazon doesn't recognize that fact at all.

What this all means is that if you put a game on your wish list, most likely no one will ever be able to buy it for you since 1/2 the games on Amazon are sold by GameStop, J&R, and other Merchants that ship out of non-Amazon warehouses. Everyone knows that games are the most-wanted items on any kid's, and most adult's, wish list. Amazon is helpfully preventing Santa from getting this message.

If everyone writes in and tells Amazon that their system is jacked, then maybe they'll get a clue, fix their broken system, and stop losing what must by hundreds of millions of dollars in game sales.

Purchasing games for sick kids is a huge part of Child’s Play. This wasn’t a problem last year and so probably 80% of our donations last year were games. This year it’s really hurting Child’s Play and we need to get this problem solved quick. So with that said I need all of you to hit this address

[email protected]

and tell them to fix their broken wish list system. Feel free to cut and paste my post here or just provide a link. I suggest we all use the same subject line. Let’s go with “Fix your busted Wish Lists!”

Get everyone you know to hit them up on this. We really need to resolve this so that we can make this year’s Child’s Play a huge success.

-Gabe out
 
Sounds like the problem can be avoided if you click on the product link and then make sure you buy from Toys R Us on next page.

Looks like they actually will get Amazon to do something...

***** SUPER UPDATE!!!*****

WORD FROM AMAZON IS THAT THEY ARE TESTING A FIX NOW. THE PROBLEM SHOULD BE FIXED SOON. I'M TURNING OFF THE LASER AT THIS POINT.
 
Another update: PA is holding a Child's Play Charity Dinner And Auction in Bellevue, Wahington on December 9th. Details as follows:


You are cordially invited.

Wed, November 17 2004 - 8:31 PM
by: Gabe

Every big charity always has a fancy dinner and auction. We figure that just because we're gamers doesn't mean we can't get dressed up for one night and act like we're a bunch of fancy high society types. So with that in mind I'd like to invite you to the Child's Play 2004 charity dinner and auction - December 9th in Bellevue Washington.

Tickets for the event are $100.00 and you can purchase them here. I know that's expensive but keep in mind that proceeds are going to our partner Children's Hospitals. Also let me tell you about the incredible night we've got planned.

The evening begins at 6:30. Browse and bid on silent auction items while you enjoy hors doevres, wine, and good company. Dinner and the live auction will commence at 7:30. Auction highlights include a tour of Bungie, a lifetime subscription to STEAM (including Half-Life 2), Washington wine, a lifetime subscription to Dark Age of Camelot, original art, and an appearance in a Penny-Arcade comic strip.

Attire: semi-swanky. Leave your Fruit fucker T-Shirt and jeans at home for one night. Show off the jacket and tie that have been sitting in your closet since prom. Tell your wife or girlfriend to dust off her best dress casue your taking her out. For one night we're all going to look fucking sharp.

Dinner menu: Read the following menu and understand that Penny Arcade does not fuck around. When we throw a charity dinner, it stays thrown Goddamnit. Grilled salmon with lemon aioli and crispy leeks served with tomato-herb couscous and fresh seasonal vegetables, or top sirloin steak with merlot rosemary demi glaze and roasted mushrooms served with horseradish potatoes and fresh seasonal vegetables, or vegetarian. The Cherry Balsamic Salad features baby greens with cucumber, toasted pecans, feta cheese and balsamic dressing. The Chocolate Royale Cake features rich coffee cake with mocha whipped cream and chocolate shavings. Fresh bread, coffee, tea, and wine are served with your meal. Now try and tell me that doesn't scratch you right where you itch!

Auction: Take a gander at some of the stuff you'll be able to bid on during the auction.

Tour of Wizards of the Coast (D&D) -
Attention Dungeons & Dragons fans! Have you ever dreamed of visiting the place where D&D is made? Curious to find out what strange monsters lurk inside Bill Slavicsek's office? Do you want to take a peek inside R&D's games library? How about actually playing D&D with the people who make the game? Then Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons Experience is your dream come true!

Auction winner and a guest will receive a tour of the Wizards of the Coast corporate headquarters located in Renton, WA, lunch, and an opportunity to game with Dungeons & Dragons R&D staff.

Tour of Wizards of the Coast (Magic)-
Attention Magic: the Gathering fans! Have you ever dreamed of visiting the place where Magic is made? Curious to find out whose desk is messier, Mark Rosewater's or Randy Buehler's? Do you want to see for yourself if Richard Garfield really does roam the halls? How about testing your Magic playing skills against the people who make the game? Then Wizards of the Coast's Magic: the Gathering Experience is for you!

Auction winner and a guest will enjoy a tour of the Wizards of the Coast corporate headquarters located in Renton, WA, lunch, and an opportunity to play against Magic: the Gathering R&D staff.

Tour of Bungie-
How does a monster game like Halo 2 get made? This is your chance to meet the developers and see where the magic happens.

Half-Life 2 and a lifetime subscription Steam-
All the Valve games you want for the rest of your fucking life. Think about that shit, every new game, every mod everything, it's all yours for free!

Tour and gaming with Penny Arcade-
Our office isn't as cool as Nintendo but we'll treat you right. Come hang out with us, eat some pizza and play some Halo 2.

Appearance in a Penny Arcade strip-
People always ask what they would have to do to get a guest appearance in a PA strip. Well here's your chance.

Workshop at Digipen-
Spend a few weeks this summer at the premier game development school on the west coast.

Lifetime subscription DAoC-
You can play DAoC for free until the day you fall over dead!

1 year subscription Gamefly-
fuck buying games! For one year you'll have access to all the new releases and old favorites for free!

Original video game themed artwork from artists like Adam Warren, Jason and Heather Martin, Kazu Kibuishi, and many more.

Original Penny Arcade artwork including your first chance to get one of our new limited edition Twisp and Catsby laser etched prints.

Gift certificates to game stores

Free admission to Penny Arcade Expo 2005

Let me tell you how the auction is going to work. The items will be divided into two groups. Some will be available via a silent auction while others will be in the live auction. The silent auction will run from 6:30 to 7:30. Live auction will run from 7:30 to 9:30 and will be emceed by Tycho and I. All bids are binding. Please bring form of payment to the event (cash, check, credit card) as all bids are to be settled that evening.

Taxes: $25 of your ticket price is tax-deductible ($ticket - cost of dinner). All auction bids are 100% tax deductible. Tax ID # is 91-1156519.

All proceeds go to the Seattle Children's Hospital and other partner hospitals of Child's Play.

As you can see this is going to be one hell of a night and it's all for a good cause. I'd recommend purchasing your ticket or tickets quick as we only have a limited number of seats available.

Again, thanks everyone for your support thus far. We've raised nearly $75,000 in the first two weeks, and we really think we can bust through our goal of $400k this year. You all rock.

-Gabe out
 
Looks like $700-$800 is about as high as we will get. Its been at that point for almost a week. Not bad, but I was expecting quite a bit more. Anyway, its better than nothing. Well done CAG, Cheapy, and chickenhawk! :applause: :applause: :applause:
 
[quote name='dpatel']Looks like $700-$800 is about as high as we will get. Its been at that point for almost a week. Not bad, but I was expecting quite a bit more. Anyway, its better than nothing. Well done CAG, Cheapy, and chickenhawk! :applause: :applause: :applause:[/quote]

I think it's shaq-fuing pathetic. We have so many registered users and all we can get is $700?

I guess the deluge of great new games coming out is killing everyone's bank accounts...or maybe we're just cheapasses in all walks of life, not just gaming.
 
[quote name='lebowsky'][quote name='dpatel']Looks like $700-$800 is about as high as we will get. Its been at that point for almost a week. Not bad, but I was expecting quite a bit more. Anyway, its better than nothing. Well done CAG, Cheapy, and chickenhawk! :applause: :applause: :applause:[/quote]

I think it's shaq-fuing pathetic. We have so many registered users and all we can get is $700?

I guess the deluge of great new games coming out is killing everyone's bank accounts...or maybe we're just cheapasses in all walks of life, not just gaming.[/quote]
I also expected more than this, you figure a big chunk of the last $300 is from Chickenhawk. Thank you so much Chickenhawk! But I honestly thought we would get more than this.
 
I honestly was expecting us to get to the thousands, at the least. Especially since we had that contest for registering 20,000 users. Just $1 from most of them would've been a huge amount. Any sort of charity is good though, even if it isn't THAT much.

Just wish people would realize how much money they are saving because of this site. The least they can do is support CAG by donating in their name to help the needy. Even if everyone only donated a mere 50 cents, we would have $10,000! I know many of you can spare 50 cents.
 
This is pretty crappy. One good thing to think about though: With 25 or so people who donated, and $700+ collected, probably everyone who donated gave a decent amount. It seems to me everyone who gave gave more because of the lack of donations. That's a wonderful thing in itself. I know I saved a bunch from this site, and for that I am forever thankful.
 
[quote name='dpatel']I honestly was expecting us to get to the thousands, at the least. Especially since we had that contest for registering 20,000 users. Just $1 from most of them would've been a huge amount. Any sort of charity is good though, even if it isn't THAT much.

Just wish people would realize how much money they are saving because of this site. The least they can do is support CAG by donating in their name to help the needy. Even if everyone only donated a mere 50 cents, we would have $10,000! I know many of you can spare 50 cents.[/quote]

I think many people have gotten fooled by that one number. There are 20,000 *registered* users....that doesn't mean that there are 20,000 people who regularly visit the site. Many of them may have registered a username and then stopped visiting the site. Even the number of daily visits can be misleading, since many regulars hop on and off the site during the day. A much better gauge of the foot-traffic through this site, so to speak, would be the # of entries in the contest threads. Those tend to reach into the...what...few hundreds? There you go. And that's including folks with 1 post (for the contest.)

Keep in mind that many of the people here are too young to have credit cards. The wee little tykes. Or, like myself, they don't have paypal accounts and don't want to sign up for one for the sake of one charity drive. This is a good site, and it's impressive that we've managed to scrape together as much as we have, keeping in mind the results of the many redundant age/monthly spending on games survey threads. It is kind of disappointing to see huge number$ showing up in the DeepDiscountDVD thread while the support for this drive has ebbed, though. :(
 
I think the people who are complaining about the lack of donations might be forgetting that some people are also donating by buying the games on the website, which wouldn't be included in the total. It's hard to say how many people have really donated so far.
 
I only had $1.68 left in my Paypal account. So, I donated that. Not much, but it's something, I guess.
 
which location should I send my stuff to?

Just wondering if there was a designated hospital for Cheap ass stuff, or is it all going to be spread around?
 
I have been looking for somewhere to be charitable too considering XMAS is right around the corner ... I just dropped off like 4 bags of clothes are goodwill during Turkey time. I will send some money to this as soon as I get my PayPal balance up :)
 
[quote name='evilmojo12542']currious as to what is happening? is it over if so how much and what did we donate to the hospitals?[/quote]
Its not over yet...we will still collect money for another week.
 
[quote name='CheapyD'][quote name='evilmojo12542']currious as to what is happening? is it over if so how much and what did we donate to the hospitals?[/quote]
Its not over yet...we will still collect money for another week.[/quote]

In that case, bump!
 
i barely have money for myself but i would like to donate whatever i can. paypal deducts from my bank account so i can make a donation then right?
 
I'm in like Flynn.
Too bad none of the games on the Amazon lists were of any games from the infamous Circuit City $5 sale. I still have a few sealed I'd be more than happy to donate as well *cough*Dr. Muto*cough*

I was introduced to the NES while in a hospital myself (pulled off a 'compound fractured femur' special move) - what a joy that system brought me while I was imprisoned. Took my mind right off the 6 steel pins sticking right out the side of my leg!
 
You now have the rest of your amount you were trying to raise.

In fact, i'd like to see us rase it, so here is a little bit more.

I'd like to ask that we raise the goal to $1500.00. Why be lackluster and only meet our current goal?

These kids the ones who might not receive the brightest christmas or have the resources to gain access to the things that we have. Let's do something that matters.

I'll be the first one to step in and raise the goal.

You now have at least $1200 towards a new goal.

God bless you giving gamers :D
 
Wow, that is very generous of you, orthetic!
Thanks!
The good news is that i misread our PayPal account limit so we can handle additional donations...keep 'em coming until we say STOP!

[quote name='defiance_17']When is the last day I can donate?[/quote]
I'm not sure...I'd like to get this gifts purchased sometime this week, though. After we make the combined CAG purchases, you can buy off the amazon wishlists directly, as mentioned in the OP.
 
[quote name='orthetic']You now have the rest of your amount you were trying to raise.

In fact, i'd like to see us rase it, so here is a little bit more.

I'd like to ask that we raise the goal to $1500.00. Why be lackluster and only meet our current goal?

These kids the ones who might not receive the brightest christmas or have the resources to gain access to the things that we have. Let's do something that matters.

I'll be the first one to step in and raise the goal.

You now have at least $1200 towards a new goal.

God bless you giving gamers :D[/quote]

So shines a good deed in a weary world - Wonka
 
Mookyjooky's DC & PSone DVD Cases

The CAG Donation Topic

Donate $5 bucks and I'll print a DC DVD Cover and put it in a White DVD case for the full look.


Donate $35 bucks and I'll print all 8 DC DVD covers and put them in White DVD cases and send them to you.


Donate $10 and I'll make a custom cover with black or white case
of my old school Dreamcast or Playstation style. It can be whatever game you want...but I need scans of your copy. (Unless I have them!)


I'm currently finishing the cases now and they should be all done in a week.


I'm also making a Phantasy Star (DC) case in Zewone's request (because he kicks ASS in Halo.

My next on the project is Tenchu : Stealth Assassins for the PSone.


But if you donate $10 I'll take on a first come, first serve basis (I'm only one guy here!) I'll make any cover for any game you want. (Dreamcast or PSone only though - I have already made templates for that)


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Alot of people ask how to get these...and they want certain ones...well this is your chance.
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THIS IS ONLY FOR DONATIONS AFTER DECEMBER 7,2004 2PM - sorry if you donated before, but I'm trying my part to get us to 1500. But I'd like to see 2000. I'm going to donate at least a $100 in a few days and I'd like to see all you other guys do that as well.

Donate and contact me in a PM - and dont make me ask cheapy if you donated, if I suspect you're lying to me - I WONT make them for you. Period.

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CAG is MORE than video games, were a group of friends here...and lets give at least 10-20 bucks a peice. Thats like the price of a movie and taco bell. Come on guys, were Cheapass Gamers.....not plain cheapasses.

(this is not affiliated in any way with CAG, or cheapyD - I did this solely on my own....I'm not "selling" these...but giving them away "free" to friends who do nice things for others)
 
[quote name='Othergods']Thank you Orthetic and Chickenhawk!!! I just wish I could have given as much as you 2 did.[/quote]

It's cool that you gave what you could. It's not really about how much you give, but the fact that you did. I applaud everyone who gave to this charity and any other charity for that matter.
 
wow, i just read this whole thread! i can't believe i never saw it before. :lol:

thanks for the bump. a donation will be made as soon as i finish this post :p
 
This may have already been addressed, but how much of this goes to the kids and how much goes to overhead and/or paying some fatass CEO's salary?
 
[quote name='Demontooth']This may have already been addressed, but how much of this goes to the kids and how much goes to overhead and/or paying some fatass CEO's salary?[/quote]
It all goes to the kids.
I'm buying the games and consoles personally and shipping them direct to the hospitals.
 
[quote name='CheapyD'][quote name='Demontooth']This may have already been addressed, but how much of this goes to the kids and how much goes to overhead and/or paying some fatass CEO's salary?[/quote]
It all goes to the kids.
I'm buying the games and consoles personally and shipping them direct to the hospitals.[/quote]

I will donate then!
 
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