On October 12th, Motorati put two SL replicas of real life vintage cars up for sale at the sum of 100,000L each. All proceeds would go to benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation. After only two days, both vehicles sold! While I think this is wonderful, I can't help but feel it is overshadowed by their claim. They would have been fine saying that it was one of the most expensive. Unfortunately this just isn't the case. When will companies learn to fact check before they make a claim like that? Not only is it not the most expensive, nor the second most, but it's also not the most expensive virtual car to benefit a non-profit. If they had comments enabled on their blog, someone might be able to inform them of their mistake.
As it happens, I know the anonymous owner of the actual titleholder. They purchased a limited edition Dominus Shadow during Relay For Life 2006 for a whopping 600,000L! I believe the runner up purchased their limited edition RFL 06 Dominus Shadow for around 400,000L. Congratulations to all of the lucky owners of these vehicles. Now if everyone would just ease up on the bigger, better, first, most ...
1. Hahaha, Thanks Moo Money. Glad I'm not only one thinks that.
I know Motorati has grown a lot of false claims over this year. Even though they are doing something good for EFF... but they are really trying to do it for themselves as advertise-marketing ground. Ever wonder about 50 Cents, Jimmy, and Z-jay? They all weren't controlled by the real person. :/
Posted at 3:46AM on Oct 16th 2007 by Nacon