Hello everyone! Welcome to the auction I wished I would never have to have.
If you don't care why I have to do this,
just skip down to the beginning of the auction 
, or just keep reading if you are curious.
As some of you might know I like to give away my stuff because I think it's nicer to share what I have, and in the process create ways for people to feel even more a part of the community. And since I don't feel like writing wiki articles or taking nice pictures of me cutting up keycaps for science, I give my stuff away to people that make an effort.
Anyway, I have to auction off some of my stuff for a couple of major reasons. I'm sort of putting this off because I'm not sure if I should be doing this or not..
Alright. Here goes.
My dad has had a hell of a summer. It first started with a cerebral hemorrhage that put him in the hospital for something like a week. He didn't have any major issues, just a little bit of speech and some memory, but retained most of his fine motor skills. Not bad right?
A couple of days after he had been released he had another cerebral hemorrhage. This one was bigger and caused his speech to deteriorate further and his general focus to decline. He seemed stable for around a couple of days until he suddenly had an epileptic attack during the night and he fell out of his hospital bed. They rushed him to get a new image with CT scan; which showed that the bleed had either worsened or he had gotten an even bigger bleed and that he had gotten a new bleed on the left side too (left part of brain controls right side and vice versa). This hemorrhage caused major problems that paralyzed his entire left side, diminished his fine motor skills on the right side too. He was now totally unable to speak and move the left side of his body. His right side wasn't much better, but it was functional.
At the time of this big event I was in the states trying to figure out how to get back to Norway as fast as possible to take care of him and his affairs.
While I was figuring things out my dad was being moved to and from a couple of hospitals and then he was moved to a home for old and mostly demented people. I was on the phone with the hospitals on a daily basis trying to get a straight answer out of the doctors why they would just move him from their care, but all I could get was some bullcrap about them needing his bed for someone else that they needed to monitor.
After a couple of weeks without being able to eat regular food. They had to feed it to him through a tube. And without any physical therapy he was moved to a different facility that could deal with his condition in the right way. At this point he had lost a lot of weight too. After seeing a physical therapist for a couple of sessions he was able to start moving his little finger and a couple of his toes.
By this time I had gotten my ticket and was working on tying up all the loose ends in the states before going back to Norway.
In only a week he was able to start walking with the help of a walker, in a few days more he walked without the walker at all. When he finally was getting into a routine and was feeling comfortable with the people and the doctors, they want him to move again to a different facility. This time however we had managed to get him into a great place called
Sunnaas. This place deals with medical rehabilitation.
I'm back in Norway by this time, working on all his unpaid bills and everything that has to be dealt with when a person has been unable to do anything for himself for a couple of months.
My dad has now been doing physical and speech therapy for a while, and is doing fine. He still has lingering memory, speech and motor skill issues, but he is miles from where he was after his major bleed.
He is now home with me in his house, but will have to have physical and speech therapy for quite a while to get back to "normal".
I'm not quite sure why I wrote that whole thing, but the gist of it is that I have had to spend a lot of money that really has cut into my savings, and not being able to work while taking care of him has been taking it's toll too.
It's something I would do again without thinking about it, but that is why I now have to try to get some money together.
If you feel that you can help me out in any way, please don't hesitate to bid on these items. I would appreciate it massively!
Thank you if you were able to sit through my long "rant".
Some rules to start the auction off:
Bid what you can afford. I am really in a bind and I can't be waiting for weeks for you to get paid.
Payments will be expected at the most three days after you get the winning private message from me.
Bid in the thread unless you really want to be anonymous; in which case you should send me a private message with your bid.
Bid with the number of the item, including the hashtag.
If you have to rescind your bid for any reason, please do so by telling me via private message and in the thread so people can see what happened.
Items for auction:
#1
Round 1 set (missing 9 and ?, but you get a whole bunch of replacement keycaps. See the image)
#2 RA 2.0 base kit and gray modifier kit. BONUS Red alert white on red number row!
#3 Ragnarok red on black base kit (reused a picture from my giveaway. This auction is without the numpad. Spacebar is included just forgot it in the image)
#4 3D Skull TOPRE
#5 Black Cosmic NIQMOD
#6 Purple Cosmic NIQMOD
#7 Dolch moogle kit with full mod
#8 MX Julysicle CC (Donated by
mkawa <3)
#9 MX Pink 420 CC (Donated by
demik <3)
#10 Red cherry set - black on red (Donated by
hashbaz <3)
#11 Red cherry set - white on red (Donated by
hashbaz <3)
4ZYtf.jpg#12 Batch of novelty keycaps (Donated by
WRXChris <3)
#13 MX Gray CC skull (Donated by
cactux <3)
#14 MX Pink CC skull
#15 Topre 3D skull (Donated by
GMC <3)
#16 1x 420 SP keycap (Designed by MMb, made by SP and Donated by
DanGWanG <3)
Picture taken by The Meatball of wizardry (MagicMeatball)
#17 33 set in silver zinc (Donated by
tjcaustin <3)
#18 Hardcore White Topre ClickClack (Donated by
MagicMeatball <3)
#19 Dragonite drawing (Donated by
moonprismpwr <3)
The winning bidder will receive a watermark free image that is 511x499 in size.
#20 Billiards set (Donated by
megnin <3)
#21 Hammer and Pi keycaps set nr 1 (Donated by
megnin <3)
#22 Hammer and Pi keycaps set nr 2 (Donated by
megnin <3)
#23 Ironman SE GH.22 small scratch on nose (Donated by
Choi Young Gyoo <3)
#24 Ironman SE Rose Gold plating (Donated by
GirlDC <3)
#25 Topre Mr. Friday ClickClack (Donated by
clickclack <3)
The pictures are of the MX Mr. Friday courtesy of
DanGWanG. The topre variety looks the same, but is topre instead of MX.
...clickclack has just donated a Mr. Friday that no one else currently has one of these because it's TOPRE. A Mr. Friday in TOPRE...
Factory Approved! =)
#26 2x limited edition Geekhack badge *with adhesive back* (Donated by
jdcarpe <3)
More items might be added throughout the auction as a lot of people are being very generous, so make sure to check back often!
Shipping information:
I will ship world wide. I am currently in Norway, so the shipping options are limited.
Our postal service has two international package offers.
One is around $62 if you buy their box.
The other is around $45 if you use your own box. Both these options have a ridiculous weight limit of 45lbs.
If I ship with stamps it will be considerably less. Around $15 for 3.5oz. Less if the package weighs less.
Donators will be shipping on their own dime world wide unless otherwise stated, so you don't have to worry about shipping if the item you are bidding on is a donation.
Send me a private message if you have any questions regarding shipping.
A special thanks go out to the people that are taking time, effort and stuff out of their lives to help us out. There aren't enough words to express the feeling of gratitude that I have.The auction will end on Wednesday September 26th 5:59 PM EST. (11:59PM GMT+1/CEST).Bids will extend the bidding for five minutes for the first half hour after ending time. Of course, if there is no extending bid, that item will close before the thirty minutes are up.
Example: User1 bids at 5:58:59 EST. This then extends that item until 6:03:59 EST. If there are no more bids after that time, the item has found a winner.
This will also prevent sniping for the first half hour of the auction.
List of bids:
#1 (Round 1 +) = Choi Young Gyoo $110
#2 (RA 2.0 +) = tjcaustin $140
#3 (Ragnarok) = Anynoupy
$75 (Refunded)
#4 (3D skull topre) = props_go_round $75
#5 (Black cosmic) = Halverson $80
#6 (Purple cosmic) = esoomenona $67
#7 (Dolch moogle kit) = anonymous $100
#8 (Julysicle) = esoomenona $301
#9 (Pink 420) = Computer-Lab in Basement $200
#10 (Red cherry black on red) = balanar $35
#11 (Red cherry white on red) = tjcaustin $40
#12 (Batch of novelty keycaps) = xavierblak $30
#13 (Gray skull MX) = JonDBurnett $150
#14 (Pink Skull MX) = mm87 $125
#15 (Second 3D skull topre) = mikelanding $70
#16 (420 keycap) = shadewolf $21
#17 (33 zinc set) = mushupork $50
#18 (Hardcore white topre) = mikelanding $62
#19 (Dragonite drawing) = Anynoupy $45
#20 (Billiards set) = tjcaustin $35
#21 (Hammer and Pi) = Rob $11
#22 (Hammer and Pi) = Rob $11
#23 (Ironman SE GH.22) = tjcaustin $210
#24 (Ironman SH rosegold) = AriesX $355
#25 (Topre Mr. Friday) = jcrouse $500 ($320 goes to glissant $180 goes to geekhack)
#26 (geekhack badges) = esoomenona $21
