Readers will recall a while back, in antediluvian times, that Geeklawyer and Ruthie ran a well received competition to re-caption a peculiar Bar Council logo. This was won by one Master Hoddy who received a bottle of whiskey.
The runner up was the wild Yorkshire morris dancer James, whose prize was a signed copy of a photo of Ruthie in which she was wearing her infamous pink leathers.
Now young James is not a lawyer and therefore is rather poor. He has less money even than a Legal Aid criminal lawyer. Oooh, 
bad.
And since he is no longer a fresh pretty spring chicken he is unable, anymore, to augment his income with lucrative work as a ‘temporary evening companion’ to older gentlemen.
In order to pay the rent he is now, through mist stained eyes, having to auction off his precious photo on eBay. The first hour’s bidding has seen the price rocket from £5 to £21. But this is merely the start and Geeklawyer is aware that bids of several orders of magnitude larger are waiting.
But surely no-one will be so cruel to impoverished James as to make joke bids? What sort of filthy swine would do such a thing? Least of all with eBay contracts being binding; And this being a blog full of lawyers?
Still, we have several QCs here and a rich American lawyer, surely the sky is the limit? …
Filthy rich. Classless. American. It’s our job.
No Spring chicken… this is true i’ve had to divesify into the niche Morris Fetish market and the yorkshire men are so much rougher.
Oh You can cancel Joke bids if you can’t contact the buyer once the sale has closed….
So far the money generated is nearly enougth to pay off an outstanding water bill of £38.99 which I’ve recevied a final reminder for.
However I have decided to give %25 of the money towards Brighton NO2ID and a further %25 of proceeds will go towards Leeds NO2ID.
I’m pleased as whilst I can’t compel you to give the proceeds to charity I would be happier if you did. (Although I’m also content that being a poor student you use part of the money to pay you bills). O’m not sure whetehr NO2ID strictly speaking counts as charity but it is a cause I have some sympathy with.
I was almost tempted to give it charity as there is a new option to do so on Ebay, but it was too much of a annoying sign up process and I was in a hurry.
If there are any proceeds and those who bid cough-up (I think GL forgets the legally binding nature of the bids he has made) then i’ll give %50 to NO2ID as allready stated and becuase you want it to goto charity and it is your pic then i’ll give the other %50 to the RNLI ( I owe them one as they did actually save my life)
Thanks, I’m happier to think that the proceeds are going to charity and the RNLI is a very worthy cause. So I can now encourage everyone to up their bids.
looks like silicontrader_uk is going to win..
With the money going to charity and good causes they are certinaly a worthy and honourable Ebayer…
but what if he is a cad and doesn’t pay? Let me know & I’ll sue him for you, pro-bono of course.
I can’t imagine that Silicon Trader wouldn’t cough up, what kind of bitter, twisted person would withhold monies they knew were going to charity and to prevent ID cards…
My faith in humanity is such that I cannot bring myself to prepare for such a dastardly act.
Thank you for the offer though GL, you truly are a gentleman.