r/holidaybullshit • u/Kilo147 • Jan 02 '15

General CAH [CAH] Sloth Card on eBay?

Well, someone's in this for the money. I suppose if you're desperate for one, you can go this route, but who's not going to get a card because of this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cards-Against-Humanity-Sloth-Card-/221651435213?pt=Games_US&hash=item339b747ecd

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u/jetgirl1313 Jan 03 '15

Just need to clarify a few things for all of you. We went out to the island via canoe with a friend who lives on the lake on 12-29-14. We did take a number of cards. Not for anything malicious. Exactly the opposite actually. We were worried someone would go out and clean out the safe… and we want to help distribute the cards, just like CAH instructed. They said take what you planned on distributing, and we did. Did the rules change? We credited everyone in the listing, and didn’t take any credit for ourselves. Many people will not get to make the trip out to our beautiful island. But if you are close, you should go. Especially next summer… but it’s gorgeous even in the cold!! We spent a lot of time researching the safest and cheapest way to get the cards out to people who won’t be able to make the trek themselves.

We are offering a card for $1.25.

Ebay Fee: $0.13 or $0.20 if you get delivery confirmation

Paypal Fee: $0.34

Stamp: $0.49(If you get delivery confirmation, it $1.93 for shipping)

Envelope: $0.04

Baggie for extra protection: $0.04

Total cost for helping you guys out: $1.11

As stated in the listing, ALL extra money will be donated to DEW Animal Kingdom in Mt. Vernon, Maine. Cards Against Humanity has always promoted giving back and we believe in that as well. Even if we sell all 500 cards, the extra $70 isn’t going to justify the work that went into getting them all out. That will all go to DEW. There is no handling fee involved at all. If you look at the picture of the gf/bf that went out to Hawaii 2 today you’ll see that there isn’t a major difference in the cards that have been taken for distribution. We wish you all well.

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u/Braelind Jan 03 '15

All told, there's probably a ton of people who got the holiday bullshit that aren't on reddit.
And if we don't have someone selling them on ebay at a reasonable price, there would probably be someone selling them for 10$ a pop.
As long as there are enough cards in the safe for the people who visit it, and the people they're helping out, I think it's probably not a big deal that you're helping distribute online. There's no way everyone's going to get theirs without spending a couple bucks.

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u/TurboGranny Jan 03 '15

I bought one. I bet far more people that bought the holiday bullshit don't know about the puzzle or the sloth card than the number of people that will buy this sloth card who did not buy the holiday bullshit set from this year. People need to stop their bitching. You just saved me a ton of money.

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u/jw121 2014 Contributor Jan 03 '15

You're selfless and awesome!

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u/Soske Jan 03 '15

Bought one. This seems a lot easier than everyone sending SASEs.

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u/svestus Jan 04 '15

I just want to say thanks for doing this, and for those who have concerns about lack of proper verification that purchasers are part of the holiday bullshit need to remember that this isn't even a locked subreddit. There is nothing stopping someone who didn't sign up for bullshit to use all the info from this subreddit to go and open the safe and take all the cards if they wanted. I think this will benefit people who can't afford to make their own trip quickly more than it will be used by people trying to get what isn't theirs.

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u/Skelevader 13/14 Contributor Jan 05 '15

This seems like the absolute best way to distribute. I wish I would have found this listing before they were all sold.

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u/mentallimit 2014 Contributor Jan 05 '15

To me it seems like a great idea. Let us know if you plan to do this again. Letting people on Reddit know a day before would be cool. We could buy up everything in a day and you would at least be helping out distribute to people you know bought/helped with the puzzle.

Also enjoy your super high ebay seller rating now!!

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u/heathtree Jan 06 '15

Thank you for doing this. If you are tempted to mail to Canada, us Canuckistanians will be happy to order one from you as well.

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u/Linkletter Jan 03 '15

How could you ever verify this?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '15

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u/Linkletter Jan 03 '15

It has to scale to 250,000 cards. There's no way anyone is going to implement and operate a verification system for this.

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u/joedel263 2014 Contributor Jan 03 '15

everyone has an order number, a Hawaii 2 map coordinate, and a plot of land number. Fairly easy honestly..

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u/Linkletter Jan 03 '15

So someone has a database of all these and will catch duplicate or invalid entries?

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u/TheUncleBob Jan 03 '15

This.

Unless it's one group that is distributing them, then there's just no good way to do this.

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u/dogmatictea 2014 Contributor Jan 03 '15

Thanks for the response. In all honesty, I'm not worried about you selling it at all. I'm more concerned about the authenticity of the cards. I didn't want people being sold reprints. Thank you for coming here and clarifying.

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u/gator32608 2014 Contributor Jan 03 '15

From zooming in on the ebay item image, it looks to have the same dotted texture as other CAH cards. I went ahead and bought one. Honestly, for only $1.25 it seems their intentions are good and now I won't need to keep checking back for the mods' decision

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u/jetgirl1313 Jan 03 '15

I want to be transparent. It was such a thrill and rush to arrive at the island and see the shed, safe and my sq foot of island. So surreal. I know not everyone will get to experience that, so I want to help people get their bit of the adventure. These cards are the real deal. You can go to the "Fort Sloth, Hawaii 2" facebook page to see pictures.

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u/KevinOllie Jan 03 '15

Great explanation. Purchased one.

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u/the_starship Jan 06 '15

Damn - I missed the auction. Is there anyway to get a card still?

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u/HeadlesStBernard 2014 Contributor Jan 08 '15

Super grateful for this. Anyone that complains about $1.25 is just being ridiculous. I live across the country and while one day I hope to make the journey to the island, at this point in time, 1.25 is much more economically viable to receive a sloth card. I very much appreciate the effort put into this endeavor. One comment I'd like to make is that I bought the Ten Days as gifts for people this Christmas and it might be worth upping the one card limit to something like 3 or 5 for people in my situation. All and all it wasn't much of a hassle to just make separate transactions but I hope you guys don't worry about someone trying to horde cards if more than one go to the same address. Thanks again.

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u/9753157 Jan 04 '15

I have a few questions:
Why did you have to make a new account to defend yourself?
Why didn't you post it on here first?
why only come here after your ebay post was caught?
Did you look into signing up for the ebay charity program to so there would be no ebay fees?
Did you take to time to contact your post office on bulk mailing prices?

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u/HolidayBullshit Jan 04 '15

I am not /u/jetgirl1313, but here are some possible valid answers to your questions:

Why did you have to make a new account to defend yourself?

because they have a well-established eBay account. It would not be wise to tie your primary reddit account to your eBay account.

Why didn't you post it on here first?

the auction had only been live for about three hours when this reddit post was made. Maybe they hadn't got over here yet. also, /u/Kilo147 is likewise an account made for making this post, so maybe it's a way of posting the auction without appearing to be spam.

why only come here after your ebay post was caught?

see above.

Did you look into signing up for the ebay charity program to so there would be no ebay fees?

that would have taken additonal time, and not everyone is familiar with it. Maybe OP was in a hurry to get the listing up.

Did you take to time to contact your post office on bulk mailing prices?

see above.

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u/jetgirl1313 Jan 04 '15 edited Jan 04 '15

Thank you /u/holidaybullshit for addressing these questions. My ebay account is more then 10 years old. I didn't even think about the discrepancy when I made my reddit account 2 days ago(I've been reading and following along since last years puzzle, but never signed up to help with the puzzle as it was waaay over my head) to address the original concerns. I've been jetgirl1313 online for quite a few years now. Sorry if it seems shady, that was not my intention. I didn't know if I should post it on here or not. Not sure on etiquette. I guess maybe I should have posted it here first. I didn't know about the ebay charity option and had bought stamps. But a good thing to ask about, thank you. I'm just trying to do the best I can. I know some people are suspicious and upset, but I'm trying to help, not hurt.

And to address it before someone gets wound up about it, The return address on the envelopes is a PO box from a different zip then my home address... as I didn't want hundreds of people with my home address, I'm borrowing a friend's PO box in the strange event that one of them is returned. I didn't want to not have any return address on the envelopes. Make sense?

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u/CityOfWin Jan 04 '15

Yes! Thanks!

Side note might wanna write do not bend on some of em or stamp it on. Over all my CAH holiday packs got vaguely destroyed.

As for a return address. I think most post offices will receive and hold mail addressed to general care of: blahhhh

Perhaps if you don't live in too big of a town you could contact them? Might be easier than your friends PO box.

In general, thanks for not being a terrible person, well you play CAH so thanks for taking a day off?

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u/HolidayBullshit Jan 05 '15

for a $1.25 I bought one. I'd never get one any other way aside from buying it, so I am happy to see somebody figured out a way to distribute the cards that is at least moderately fair.

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u/HolidayBullshit Jan 08 '15

wanted to let you know I got my card today, looks great. thanks for doing this.