Consequences!

It is TOTAL bullshit that the auction was pulled. Shame on EBay.

When I was a kid, we had toys, but we had to play with them in our bedrooms, we weren't allowed to have them all over the house like kids today. Our parents didn't tolerate our toys all over the house, pure and simple.

Not sure why the auction was pulled though, perhaps it was the picture of the kids. I think a good picture of the items would have been much better, might get more real buyers if they can see what they are buying.

JD

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One of my coworkers took away his kids' Pokemon cards when they were fighting over them at home and they actually called their dad at work screaming about each other. The rest of the office was LOLing our asses off and he says his two sons have been quiet and well behaved ever since he took their cards away, and that he's not giving them back either.

+++ for good parenting!

That was probably the only way to teach them not to fight over things. One probably had cards the other wanted, so they fought over them. Calling a parent at work for that is just out of line as far as I'm concerned.

I had an online friend back in my dialup BBS days who told me a story of how he got into a fight with a sibling over a walkie talkie. The sibling tried to take his, even though the sibling already had the same make/model he had, the sibilng just didn't want him having his anymore. His mother heard the fight and took both walkie talkies away. They got them back a few months later, but never fought over them or anything else again.

Sometimes that's what it takes.

JD

WHAT THE FUCK???? People are tearing this mother apart for doing this:

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/18/6079298-mom-sells-kids-toys-on-ebay-as-punishment

Used to be, kids were made to take a timeout when they acted up, or maybe even a spanking. But now, parents have other options, like selling their treasured toys on eBay as punishment.
One mom, fed up with her boys' fancy spinning tops and how they wrecked her bathtub, decided to gather the offending tops — the popular Japanese manga Beyblade toy — and put them on eBay. She even posted a picture of her sons, one clearly in tears, while the younger one has a mug shot look, resigned to his fate, as he holds up the zip lock bag of Beyblades to present to the buying public.

She put the picture and the toys on the auction site, attracting the attention of 4Chan, a community known for galvanizing quickly around a common cause. They ganged up on the hapless mom, daney21. The opening bid for the 8 toys was $69. With 4Chan in the mix, the bids soon rose to over $9,000, and finally to $999,999 before the auction was closed, most likely on daney21's request. She sent a message to one of the 4Chan bidders that shows her frustration and perhaps realization that she was being pursued by forces way beyond her comprehension: "Do you plan to pay over $9000.00 for the beyblades or is this a joke to you because this has been a problem all day and I am going to report to ebay."

A search for daney21 or her eBay Beyblades entry, which was posted in early February, came back with zero results.

We can't reprint what 4Chan users wrote, but here's a link to some of the screenshots taken by Urlesque.
No doubt, some of the attacks against her arose after reading her description of the sale:

We are selling 8 Beyblades, 2 of them light up. As you can tell they are not happy about this! They have been using their bathtub as a "battle arena" and Beyblades + Bathtub = Destruction!!! With the metal ones they managed to scrape the enamel off the tub, take a chunk of tub out and break off the soap holder. SO if you "win" this auction DON'T play with in a bathtub!!! We have recieved a quote of $500.00 to replace the tub, some tiles, and soap holder + labor of course! They had approxamently $125.67 in their piggy banks that will be going to toward the cost. We will use the profit from this auction towards the balance and then it is onto other toys!

So, rather than rewarding her boys for their ambition in creating a larger arena, she is not only taking money out of their piggy banks but also airing out some family disciplining issues on eBay and the Internet.

Now she's got her own entry in Encyclopedia Dramatica, which has basically branded her as a bad mom for life.

Before today, I'd never even heard of Beyblades, so I checked out what they were on the official Beyblades site and video. But they're familiar to my friends who are parents to young boys, and I saw some in action through YouTube:

(insert video here)

So, they're really fancy spinning tops, with parts you can assemble. That correspond with a show, games and characters. Okkkkk. But I could see how they'd give hours of fun to a 4-year-old (or 6, or 8 and maybe even some adults), and could result in some epic battles.

I wonder, did daney21 read the instructions to her kids, which make it clear the toys aren't supposed to go beyond the arena? How long had they been playing in the tub? Where was she? We can't imagine she didn't hear that kind of ruckus.

Maybe she should have taken a timeout before putting this out there for the world to see.

The stupid cunt who wrote this drivel actually thinks the shitlins should have been REWARDED FOR THEIR AMBITION????? I wish I could meet this author and person and tell her what an absolute moron she is.

Here's a gem of a comment :

As I am a teenager, I am obviously not a parent, but I still find this mother to be a horrible person. Trust me when I say punishment doesn't teach children anything but to try not to get caught. And for all those adults saying things like, "this isn't half as bad as when I was a kid," I'm fairly sure your parents never took pictures of you crying and showed them to millions of people. The only logical explanation here is that this same kind of poor parenting was what allowed them to cause so much destruction in the first place.

It's people like this that make it harder and harder for people to apply reasonable punishment to their children, causing the current generation of monsters.

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I'm fairly sure your parents never took pictures of you crying and showed them to millions of people.

Yeah and I'm fairly sure parents didn't used to post pictures of their kids taking shits or post statuses about their son's little baby dingdongs making daddy proud. There's so much shit on the internet that's worse than this beyblade fiasco. I don't understand why people can't just leave other people alone. It's her life and her children and yes, she put it on the internet, but that was her decision to make. It's public humiliation but it's no different from when I acted up as a kid and was threatened with spankings in public. It shut me up right away because I didn't want other people to know what a little snot I was being. I didn't sneak around and break rules and try to avoid getting caught, I just learned to behave. I'm not sure what kinds of childhoods these people have had.