As some of you know Monkfish passed away

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  1. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    As some of you might know, monkfish, who approached us about geist force passed away
    last year from cancer. It's my belief he was clearing house (His dev career mementos)
    to provide money for his children past his death.

    I've decided to auction off the original geist force GDR and donate the money to
    charity.

    The point of this post if to solicit idea on how to best promote the effort and
    to find a worthy children's cancer charity for the money.

    If possible I'd like to find a reliable charity and send them the disc and then coordinate with them
    to auction the disc.

    I have a small box of dreamcast promos I will include in the deal and hopefully we can make
    a good effort. If anyone has small dreamcast mementos, we can pool them and then the
    auction will have some real good substance.

    I look forward to constructive comments.
     
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  2. Mack

    Mack <B>Site Supporter 2012</B><BR><B>Site Supporter 20

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    Damn that is horrible , good luck with the Auction!

    Cancer is nothing to joke about.
     
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  3. sabre470

    sabre470 Site Supporter 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015

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    That is so sad :(

    How about this charity/project http://www.zapcancer.org/ it's already going through clinical trial and it looks promising.
     
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    Fandangos <B>Site Supporter 2013</B>

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    I believe people on Neo-Geo forum did the same thing for Nightmare Tony. I believe you could replicate the same method.
     
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  5. Dylan

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    This is very sad :(
    May he rest in peace.
     
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  6. Fudge

    Fudge Spirited Member

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    Rest in piece, I'll donate to this.
     
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  7. HEX1GON

    HEX1GON FREEZE! Scumbag

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    Very sad, hope the auction all goes well. Nice of you to do this Kev.
     
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  8. stevo9389

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    My friend's wife was part of 46 mommas and I think they were raising money for St. Baldricks Foundation.
     
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  9. DarkSynbios

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    That's very nice move!
     
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  10. JamesMichael

    JamesMichael Light Hearted Drunk

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    Wow thats sad to hear, cancer is such a hard thing to battle.

    As for the auction I'm not sure how well sending off the disc for them to auction would work they might not want to do it with it being something dev related/unreleased. Very noble of you Kev to do this hope the auction is success how ever way you proceed with it.
     
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  11. coal stepping

    coal stepping Site Supporter 2014

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    Super awesome for you too do this Kevin.
     
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  12. kiff

    kiff <B>Site Supporter 2012</B><BR><B>Site Supporter 20

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    I don't think a public auction for such an item would be very successful and I don't think bids would generate that much money. A better option would be to have the disc framed with a plaque of some kind and then raffle it off on the forum (100 tickets at $10 each...?) then pull a number out at random and pick a winner; you could auction the Dreamcast items off separately.
     
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    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    That's an idea I guess.
     
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    Unknown-Organization <B>Site Supporter 2014</B>

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    Indeed sad. Can one anyone tell me what kind of cancer that Monkfish got ?

    Making donating for cancer charity is respectful idea but what about his children ? Could send money to them instead ?

    Sad that he no longer with his family.
     
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  15. JamesMichael

    JamesMichael Light Hearted Drunk

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    I like the concept of this idea better than the auction personally. Think it would do a lot better.
     
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  16. pool7

    pool7 Site Supporter 2014

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    Sad to hear about this... may he rest in peace.
    Good luck with whatever method you choose for the auction; I hope I can help when the time comes.
     
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    Banjo <B>Site Supporter 2014</B>

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    Whatever method of raising funds is used (auction/raffle), hopefully once it's up it'll get some interest from other sites and publications to increase the amount raised. I'm thinking along the lines of how the Sega Pluto news exploded after it was posted here, but obviously on a smaller scale.
     
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  18. ASSEMbler

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    I could have a plaque made. Can anyone make a cnc sonic or something?
     
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    sonik Site Supporter 2013

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    I like the raffle idea.
     
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    Tchoin Site Patron

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    This is a great idea.

    Plus, maybe you could contact the same charity the guys from Humble Bundle work with?

    My condolences to Monkfish's family.
     
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