FUBAR wrote:Dale wrote:I don't want to take the attention away from Max, but on the previous page CoasterAddict said that they were bidding on 5 different seats. Why would one person need so many seats in the auction?
You get two tickets to carowinds, the cost of the two tickets is less than the price of the current high bids on some of the seats.
Many from Team Coaster Addict have wanted to go to the media day event, and one did not get a chance to enjoy Carowinds yet (they went up to KD but did not get to stop by Carowinds). So, instead of having each person from our group bid, we figured it would be best to bid under one login. It is just easier to track that way. Plus, most of our team members love to give back. For example, each year, most of the team does at least one coaster marathon for charity here in Atlanta and often looks for other great ways to give back. While I do the bulk of the writing for the CoasterAddict.com site, our [active] team is about 10 strong (not counting some people who contribute from time to time. A good number of us have Carowinds Gold or CF Platinum passes, but a few do not. All in all, we just love roller coasters and love giving back!
Our budget is not that big, and many of our team members have other financial obligations, so most of our team's bids have been on lower-priced seats. My (Dwayne) thinking is that bidding on the lower-priced seats will also do a few things. First, most of these seats have not had many bidding action on them. So, that should help drive up the money that is raised for the great cause - even if CA team members do not win seats.
As mentioned before, if something unfortunate happens wherein Max does not get the front row seat (which I am confident he will based on the pure mathematics of it all), I'll be happy to give up my seat further back on the train.
! But yeah, if I wanted my family to go I would do the bidding, wouldn't have 4 other people watching when I can do the job myself.
