Radio 2 - 30 minute auction

[Snelly]

I agree it excludes the majority, but so what ? It's about raising the most money in the shortest time. I just don't understand why people are getting so upset about it, the point isn't to make golfers happy

Colin - I am with you 100% on all your responses on this.


How any of you can have the slightest criticism of what Chris Evans and Lee Westwood have done to make this available is beyond my comprehension.

Anyone who has been successful enough in their life can have this prize. Bad luck if that isn't you. It certainly isn't me and I would love to win it.

The second element of this that has not been discussed is the PR that such an auction creates. 8 million people listen to that show and will be talking about these auctions and consequently raising the profile of CIN. This is PR gold.

And it is raising a huge amount. The Ferrari auction this morning raised about £400K!

An SMS raffle? Do me a favour. That is about as interesting as paint drying and an utterly and completely lame idea compared to what R2 are doing with this auction.

 

[Imurg]

How any of you can have the slightest criticism of what Chris Evans and Lee Westwood have done to make this available is beyond my comprehension.

The criticism is not aimed at Chris Evans or Lee Westwood. It's a great fundraiser. The criticism is aimed at the method. Maybe they could have done it differently, maybe not. That's the point of the debate.
As it happens they raised 90k - great, brilliant, no argument.
It just would have been nice to have been in with a fighting chance.

 

[Snelly]

It just would have been nice to have been in with a fighting chance.

What has that got to do with it? It is not supposed to be a democratic process. The fact that you would like to win it is totally irrelevant in every sense of the situation.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It just would have been nice to have been in with a fighting chance.

What has that got to do with it? It is not supposed to be a democratic process. The fact that you would like to win it is totally irrelevant in every sense of the situation.

So with that thought process, if you didn't think you could win don't bother entering. Very quickly that becomes a recipe for elitism and turns off the public and CIN becomes a contest between major brands, celebrities and philanthropists to outdo each other. Definitely not the CIN ethos.

The main point of the argument is not that we'd like to win which goes without saying but that we've at least got an opportunity to do so. I'd like to have won the 100m Euro lottery but knew the odds were stacked against me but I still entered and had my shot. That is the difference

 

[SharkAttack]

Did anyone listen to the winners interview after it? He is not even going to play in it, it's two up and coming players one is his nephew and someone else. Although Chris did invite him down to watch.

Shark

 

[Pants]

I can't believe the attitude of some of the earlier posters on this thread.

Oh! We should have had a chance to win! It should have been a raffle, or whatever. Me! Me! Me! I want a level playing field!

How much would you have really wanted to pay for a chance to win this item?

£9

£90?

£900?

£9,000?

£90,000?

Let's face it. You ALL had a chance to bid. If you couldn't afford to win it, so what. Get over it.

The reality is that this winner of the auction was happy to DONATE £90K to CIN. The round of golf was probably irrelevant.

These auction items are freely "donated" by people, organisations, whatever, often at a tangable cost to themselves (I'm not just referring here to just a round of golf) in the hope that others will donate a substantial sum to the charity.

And it works every year.

Running a raffle for every item probably wouldn't produce anywhere near the same income for CIN and would be a nightmare to organise.

The charity is a great cause deserving the full support of everyone so those of you who would have been happy to donate £5/10/20 for a chance to play with Lee Westwood but couldn't, how about donating that money anyway? Or is it a case that you won't donate to CIN because you won't get a game of golf, car, piece of Chilean rock, appear as a weather presenter, etc, etc, out of it?

And, before you ask, yes I do donate every year and I don't even ask for a record to be dedicated.