Survey - How Much $$ Have You Spent?

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Tatianna

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 07:32 pm Click here to edit this post

13$ (Canadian)

Lafatme

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 08:19 pm Click here to edit this post

i spent $5 voting out george, $300 for a banner for the HGs, and i'm gonna spend $5 more to vote for eddie, since kearie wants him to win. (would have emptied out the savings to vote for brit today)

Prince

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 09:13 pm Click here to edit this post

I'm planning to spend some more $ tomorrow. Does anyone know what time the polls close?

Kearie

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 09:23 pm Click here to edit this post

Laf---

Omigosh, you are too funny. You just totally are cracking me up. But thanks. lol

Right hand Yellow

Lafatme

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 10:29 pm Click here to edit this post

kearie, go to my website. anangrymob.com

right hand blue

Kearie

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 10:40 pm Click here to edit this post

Laf--- I already did....

Do I really have to go through there to get my left hand on a green? Sent you an e-mail too

Really

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 10:57 pm Click here to edit this post

A rounded total of $37.00.

I justified it because I haven't been to the movie theater in almost a year. I use to go at least 3-4 times a month - and always the discounted matinees :)

Whit4you

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 10:58 pm Click here to edit this post

$99.00 (voting for someone ELSE when Georgerge got 4 nominations for no other reason but the fact that I'm an etical persona nd I do not think it was ethically RIGHT game to set someone up for ratings ... set someones family up - thier childrens and possibly their childrens children up - for ratings)

I knew it wouldn't matter - Figured out that 99% of the population was raised differently then I was .. (that two WRONGS make a right)
knew that 99% of the BB voting population were falling right into BB's plan to make one man and his families future fall-guy's for ratings.


I knew it wouldnt matter - but I was so shocked and blown away by the fact - that a corporation would play games with someones future for ratings ... that I did what I had to do to at least feel like I tried.

I am so personally outraged - and confused about this entire thing that I could write a BOOK on my feelings on it. But the question was how much did you spend, I didn't intend to spend a dime - I spent $99 on principal (knowing it meant nothing) knowing that BB's quest to gather ratings - meant walking all over ethics had aldready won. I'd seen 1000's of posts "How dare these people support one of their own - lets band together and vote HIM out" Two wrongs MAKE A RIGHT. AND WE AREA BOUT TO PROVE IT.

So I tossed 10 votes (99 bucks) out the window... simply because - I do not feel two wrongs make a right.... simply because I do not think it's ethical for someone to make a sacrificial lamb out of a game show contestant for ratings. To play GOD ...

BB Crossed a line when they allowed a BITTER just banished houseguest to influence the outcome of the game / and the future of a man and his family - for ratings ...

I don't regret wasting 99 bucks - the only thing that bothers me in the long run is finding out how many Americans were not raised the way I was ... to truely believe that two wrongs do NOT make a right <sigh>

Lafatme

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:07 pm Click here to edit this post

kearie i thought you'd never ask! (watch your head)

Kearie

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:11 pm Click here to edit this post

Oh my!

Oh NO!...My hair got caught!

Kearie

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:22 pm Click here to edit this post

You don't really expect me to be able to almost do the splits to get my foot over there do you?
Check your mail.

Larrblue

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:41 pm Click here to edit this post

Donation towards www.banish-george.com banner - $1

Phone calls to actually banish George - $3.96

Phone call to vote for Eddie to win - $0.99

Purchase of a color-laser copy of an oil painting of Eddie - $27.96 (stupid me thought he was buying an original painting but didn't read the auction too closely)

Time I wasted watching every BB show, on BB video feeds, the BB fan club site, and many many other BB-related sites - probably at least 150 hours or more; at my old job where I earned about $40/hour, that's $6000

Value of the experience of being a part of Big Brother - Priceless.

Lafatme

Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:59 pm Click here to edit this post

kearie, i don't EXPECT anything other than you giving it a good try. ROFL

Stillme

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 12:02 am Click here to edit this post

Wow. I guess this is a rich crowd. That's a lot of money to spend on a television show. I got a summer's worth of entertainment for free.

Snogrl

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 01:36 am Click here to edit this post

$14.00 total - 4 banishments:,
$1 - Jordan
$2 - Karen
$2 - George
$3 - Jamie

$3 - Eddie to win
$2 - Josh 2nd
$1 - Curtis 3rd
Winners was only hard one, I really wish they could have split it, because there are things I love about all of them, so I based it more on need.

Gail

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 04:13 am Click here to edit this post

I spent $12 in voting and a few other dollars for yesterday's banner.

Mas

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 04:53 am Click here to edit this post

$1 - Teresa for voting Brit out on nat'l TV.
$1 - George on his last nomination. Was unsure how much support he really had.

Would have spent $1 to save Jamie, if the poll projections were closer on the last nom. round.

$0 for the final three.

Samplecd

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 05:31 am Click here to edit this post

$1 for each banishment round leading up to George (total $6). $17 to vote out George. $1 to vote out Jamie. $1 for Eddie to win. So total of $25

Affinity

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 05:39 am Click here to edit this post

$1 for Jordan's banishment
$5 for George's banishment
$3 for Cass's banishment
$5 for Jamie's banishment
$10 for Eddie to win

$24 total
i'd say it was worth it

Bbrock

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 05:39 am Click here to edit this post

$1 to banish Jamie.

$5 for Eddie for the win.

I wanted to spend more for the final prize, but my phone bill is high enough with calling hubby 3-4 times a week in Korea.

Lucinda

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 07:10 am Click here to edit this post

I spent .99 on a call to banish (get this!) Curtis vs. Jordan. Yes, I was young and naive at the time. Then I spent $3.96 to banish George the time Britt got banished. Then, I took a breather. Last week I spent .99 on Jamie, and last night .99 on Eddie to win!

Boogie

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 07:21 am Click here to edit this post

I called once for every banishment, and always voted for the person who actually got banished... wierd... I guess I'm a genius... (ha ha ha ha), oh, wait, I did vote twice for George when he finally got banished...

I didn't vote for Eddie to win... Why? Last night, a non-fan watched the show with me, and when they put the number up, I remembered I hadn't called yet, so I picked up the phone and he started making fun of me!!!!!! So I pulled a Jamie, and put it down (didn't want him to think badly of me)... now I think I've run out of time to vote...

Total spent $8
completely worth it....

Gonnagetfired

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 07:49 am Click here to edit this post

$15 - mostly spent on voting George out both times he was up for banishment.

Boogie - There's still time to call in and vote! I just did and the lines were still open.

Scuttle

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 08:47 am Click here to edit this post

$0.00. But I have enjoyed the free entertainment.

Kitkat

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 08:53 am Click here to edit this post

$5 banish Eddie
$5 banish George $5 banish Eddie

$10 voting Curtis

Kramer

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 09:52 am Click here to edit this post

This morning I was thinking about how much $$ everyone who phoned in must have spent, collectively, as a group on Big Brother and I wondered this:

Would Eddie, Josh and Curtis have been better off if they just told us to save our $1 voting for or against them and mail it to them instead?

That way when they got home (winners or losers) they would have a mailbox full of tax free $$$$.

Just a silly thought that ran through my mind....

Prince

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 09:56 am Click here to edit this post

Kramer, I was thinking about that. I bet CBS easily will get 650,000 phone calls for this final vote.

I think the prize money should have been higher, after all they are the show.

Jade888

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 10:58 am Click here to edit this post

No personal money...but I voted a 100 times for Curtis on free phone cards I had received. Now was the time to use them up!

Hubby actually made one call on our regular phone.

Ken

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 01:47 pm Click here to edit this post

Whit: 10 votes is $9.90, not $99... (Or did you mean to say you voted 100 times?) Regardless, I'm thinking you should have saved that money for some grief counseling.

I spend $2 voting for Cass to save Eddie and Curtis.

Renee

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:47 pm Click here to edit this post

I spent $0, though I thought about it a few times, I never voted. I think this answers my question about whether there will be a BB2. CBS must have made a Lot of money between advertising and phone calls. Whether the ratings were good or not, this must be a cash cow for them.

LOL Kramer! I thought the exact same thing. It especially makes sense when you think of how many people are voting based on need. (My DH also wants Eddie to win because of medical bills - he's paying some now - and his parent's house.) That way they could have been Certain that Eddie got ALL the money instead of splitting it among the corporations involved in 900 calls. As you said, it would also have been tax free.