*** Anonymous Confessions Thread v5 ***

Mynight said:
And you never got in contact to query it :p.
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I did, 3 to 4 times. But realize that any reply mods tried to make went to a dead email address, and I wouldn't have been able to change it if I knew at the time because my account was locked up and I couldn't access those pages. Any click away from the forum index access would throw up a page saying I am not authorized to do that.
 
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bloodiedathame said:
Blueyonder email addresses still work...
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I was going to post that. When Virgin took over they gave the option of switching to a virginmedia address or keeping the blueyonder one.

Edit: However, I think you were automatically switched to virgin if you didn't choose to keep your original address. Not too sure, it was some time ago.
 
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A few years ago I got my missus (an artist / illustrator) to draw a picture in the style of a famous artist, which I attempted to sell on eBay as the genuine thing. I did this because I was trying to prove a point about people buying any old garbage if they think it's got a famous name behind it. She, being an artist, was less than happy with my viewpoint. So I got her to quickly scribble something in the impressionist style. It took her literally 2 mins, tops. I scanned it in and put it up on eBay with some rubbish blurb about it being found in a stash of old notes, and that some "experts" had taken a look and said it could well be a doodle from this famous artist. I listed it for 200 quid. Not only wasn't it removed rapidly (what with it being such obvious BS), but 2 people got into a bidding war and it ended up selling for 300 quid. I did a bit of research on the guy who won it and discovered he was a surgeon in swanky London and clearly not short of a few bob. He paid PayPal straight away and we sent him his 300 quid doodle. He left excellent feedback and was clearly delighted with his masterpiece. The missus conceded that I may have had a point.

Also, we never did it again....despite being poor and in debt at the time....and despite the fact the missus would draw her own brilliant stuff that took hours and sold for next to nothing. So really, when you think about it, we're awesome people :)
 
[FnG]magnolia;27020048 said:
A few years ago I got my missus (an artist / illustrator) to draw a picture in the style of a famous artist, which I attempted to sell on eBay as the genuine thing. I did this because I was trying to prove a point about people buying any old garbage if they think it's got a famous name behind it. She, being an artist, was less than happy with my viewpoint. So I got her to quickly scribble something in the impressionist style. It took her literally 2 mins, tops. I scanned it in and put it up on eBay with some rubbish blurb about it being found in a stash of old notes, and that some "experts" had taken a look and said it could well be a doodle from this famous artist. I listed it for 200 quid. Not only wasn't it removed rapidly (what with it being such obvious BS), but 2 people got into a bidding war and it ended up selling for 300 quid. I did a bit of research on the guy who won it and discovered he was a surgeon in swanky London and clearly not short of a few bob. He paid PayPal straight away and we sent him his 300 quid doodle. He left excellent feedback and was clearly delighted with his masterpiece. The missus conceded that I may have had a point.

Also, we never did it again....despite being poor and in debt at the time....and despite the fact the missus would draw her own brilliant stuff that took hours and sold for next to nothing. So really, when you think about it, we're awesome people :)
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Was hoping for some Titanic Winslet/DiCaprio magic, left disappointed.

:( :mad:
 
This thread is dangerous on an iPhone as I just went to scroll, hit the OP's special email and was almost sending him an email from my business email! Be careful out there... :)
 
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