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    Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    In reply to Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness
    Looks like it should have been called the Stargate phone...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/18/09

    In reply to Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness
    Yeesh, that thing looks like it's a bit insect-themed. It looks like the abdomen of a hissing cockroach.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/18/09

    In reply to Fake Aura Slaps On Fake Louis Vuitton For Ultimate Tackiness
    Stuff like this is for people who are making a statement about how they can afford to have a complete and utter lack of taste. I helped out on an episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition last year, and at the unveiling there was some froofy balding guy in the VIP section who was wearing these spastically tacky sunglasses that had designer logos the size of postage stamps on the temples, and a leather jacket that looked like the sort that you can only wear indoors without damaging it. If I hadn't gone about 30 hours on 4 hours sleep, I would have been very tempted to point at him and laugh out loud. With my hat off, so he'd be able to see that I have a naturally full head of hair.
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    03/18/09

    @Purple Dave: That would have show HIM! Love the EMHE name drop though...
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/18/09

    @RainyDayInterns:
    Yeah, well, we would have loved it more if they'd namedropped MichLUG for pretty much single-handedly doing all the LEGO-work in the youngest kid's room. You know, considering they tracked us down and specifically requested our help in that regard. We got no listing in the credits, and out of about half a dozen participants, I am the only one you can see in the real-time footage...where I'm seen, from the back, holding up a model airplane in a different room. Plain and simple, we got shafted. Instead of acknowledging all the hard work we put in, they instead did some feel-good clip where they went to a child-therapy group that the three boys had been attending, and had them build a bunch of models to "help out". Not one of those models ever appeared in the room that I ever noticed, and while admittedly I was not actually in the room during the final hour or two before they let the family in, I have a strong suspicion that the segment with the kids was filmed after the house was turned over to the family.


    When you really see what's going on, it's very obvious that it's more feel-good than do-good. They gave a 3000-sqft house to a family of four, and filled it with at least seven HDTVs and Blu-Ray players, lit pretty much every room with recessed lighting (nothing like lighting a 10'x10' room with a dozen 60w bulbs to keep energy costs down!), and gave them a living room that's two stories tall. Between skyrocketing property taxes and utilities, this family of four (that had no income that I'm aware of) should be in even worse financial ruin by the end of the year that they're required to keep the house intact. But of course, noone wants to watch an hour-long show where they give some deserving family a completely sensible house that they can afford to live in.


    Also, they put a large aquarium in the dining area, and dropped a damn lionfish in it. Sure, it's a gorgeous fish, but who gives lethally poisonous pets to families with young kids?

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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    If they had any chance of them getting me to buy this phone, they just blew it. I already didnt want the phone because of the price, now this makes another BIG reason why I dont want it.


    Whats next, will they put into their legal contract that I can't use the phone during the hours of 1am to 10am? or perhaps that they can take the phone from me legally with out reinbersing or compensating me for taking it from me? They can go screw themselves....

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    here's one for sale:


    [www.cellhut.com])

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    Again, I love when companies dictate what a person may do with property that s/he has purchased.


    Fun legal question of the day: May a covenant attach to personal property as one may to real property?


    Sorry, but when I'm buying a phone, I want to buy the entire "bundle of sticks" that is property rights, including the right to transfer.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: All your resale are belong to us.
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    Is this even legal??!
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    Image of Samifumi Samifumi
    11/03/08

    @okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): It's not a contractual provision that will hold up in any court of law.
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    Image of Mpls_Mikey Mpls_Mikey
    11/03/08

    @Samifumi: I don't think that's completely true. It will certainly be enforceable against the first purchaser, who had complete freedom to refuse to enter the contract. But, if the first purchaser does sell to a second purchaser, Moto will have no recourse to get the phone back from the second purchaser. They can still sue the first purchaser for breaking the contract.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/03/08

    @Mpls_Mikey: I think the question is whether basically this is granting MOTO a right of first-refusal. There's also the question of what MOTO's damages are in case of breach. Penalty clauses are unenforceable.


    As to the buyer, they just need to show that they are a buyer in good faith. Which means they get the phone and whatever they want to do with it.

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    Image of deadhouseplantz deadhouseplantz
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    I actually like this move. I HATE eBay. I HATE how every year or time when something new comes out, you have eBay hawks who come in, swoop up all of the supply. Then they force you to pay 20 to 500 percent above markup price. That is criminal in every right. I wish Nintendo or Sony would do this, but, eh.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/08

    @deadhouseplantz: I love ebay. There are few good sources for MIB LEGO sets that have been discontinued from the LEGO store.
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    Image of jackburtonHERO jackburtonHERO
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    Why is this phone $2000 dollars?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/08

    @jackburtonHERO: It has the I Am Rich app v.2 built-in.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/08

    In reply to Motorola Legal Contract Won't Let You Hawk $2000 Aura Phone on eBay
    Is it just specifically ebay? Cuuuuuuuz...*coughCraigslistcough*
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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    11/03/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Or maybe... **coughAmazoncough*
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/08

    @segamanxero: Brilliant!
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