Monday 27 October 2008

Is Martin Veitch worth £200?


Fans of Flackenhacks' Adopt-A-Hack might have thought that the £86 bid by Paul Doran of Switch Communications for Phil Muncaster of Vnunet was the end of the story.

For most of last week, Muncaster seemed confirmed in his role as the nation's favourite tech hack.

But there's a been coda, folks -- a corollary, a pendent development. . .  involving runner-up Martin Veitch of CIO, whose auction closed last Tuesday.

In case you missed it, the best closing bid for Veitch was £82 -- made by Johnson King.

. . . But on Friday afternoon, in after-hours trading, Mike King of Johnson King dramatically upped his winning bid for Veitch to £200.

Which means that Muncaster has now been consigned to second place in the Adopt-A-Hack sweepstakes.

On Friday afternoon, Veitch was displaying his sharp elbows on Google Mail. The world's leading Geordie tech hack had this to say: "Just so long as it's made very clear that I won the race, albeit after the race had officially finished."

Uh, our tickers can hardly stand it. Here's where we're at right now:

1) Martin Veitch (CIO) -- £200.00

2) Phil Muncaster (Vnunet) -- £86.00

3) Mark Dye (Freelance) -- £36.00

4) Bryan Glick (Computing) -- £30.99

5) Mark Samuels (CIO Connect) -- £26.00

6)= Michael Dempsey -- £19.99

7)= Andy McCue -- £19.99

8)= Rupert Goodwins -- £19.99

And if your pulse isn't already racing, how about this?

We've just added auctions for Gordon Kelly (news editor at Trusted Reviews) and Tim Phillips (the freelance who has written Computing's Backbytes column for the past 12 years).

You've got 48 hours to bid on either (or both) of these blokes. Plus, of course, Jeremy Kirk, Rob Kerr, Eric Doyle and David Meyer, who will continue to twist in the wind for another day or so.

As always: low start, no reserve and 50% of whatever we raise goes to Byte Night. (Although in the case of Mike King's generous bid, we'll obviously be revising that proviso. . . )

. . . Get clicking!

6 comments:

ITscribe said...

Totally unfair on Muncaster. He was first past the post - just because a horse keeps running doesn't mean it wins the race.

Certainly, Veitch raised the most but not within the time allotted to everyone else. I'm sure his sponsor will still give the money if you think again.

RE-INSTATE MUNCASTER

ITscribe said...

Money for Titles Scandal Hits Flackenhack Awards 2008

Probe expected to expose scurrilous activities of organisers

Oh, what's that?

We know they're scurrilous?

Damn!

Shinykatie said...

I thought the point of Flackenhacks was that PRs could have a nice industry night out without having to look after "bloody journalists!" for a change. Seems a bit of a shame for them!

Gordon Kelly said...

Agreed! Especially as I'm battling it out now with Muncaster for the Carl Lewis silver in a Ben Johnson won race ;)

The Flackenhacks said...

Katie

Fair point. We'll ban 'em next year. Auction off a load of clients instead... at low, low 2009-style starting prices.

ITscribe said...

Flash forward to 2009 Awards. "Clients? Oh yes, we used to have some of those. Funny little annoying things that keep ringing you up and demanding stuff. It's much better now. No clients, no journos. Bliss"

"Hey, who turned the lights out?"