Buy Me A Ferrari

Yup - I know, I’ve been really lazy lately and haven’t been posting half as much as I should be. This is changing as of now as I am not going to stop posting like I did lately.

At the moment I’m looking for a job and selling stuff I don’t need from the house - this is in an effort to purchase car insurance and get myself a car as I have a license and no car to drive at the moment.

I have a load of random stuff on eBay at the moment from children’s books to DVDs, there will also shortly be a load of computer parts going on as I need to have a clearout and generate as much money as possible.

If you’d like to have a look at what I’m currently selling and possibly even have a bid or two you can do so on eBay here.

So the sole purpose of this blog at the moment is to document my path to afford a car and insuring the car. I will get back to the Ferrari one day.

Any web designers willing to do me a cheap page?

If so, I want a one page website set up. If you can help drop me an email: me [at] daviddunn.co.uk and we can discuss this a bit more.

Where is Buy Me A Ferrari going now?

I will be continuing along the same lines as I was before but I want to make money now rather than in the long run as I need a car and insurance now.

I’ll still be talking about different things to make money on the internet etc. but I’ll also be talking about the ways in which I am making money and how close (or far away) I am to being able to afford a car/insurance.

Anyone got any quick ways of making money that I could use? Also, I need a web designer for another project idea if anyone is interested? Drop me an email.

All donations to the same PayPal email address are great and you will get a mention. Bidding on my auctions is great too.

When checking out the Google Toolbar I discovered that this domain name (buymeaferrari.co.uk) has a Google Pagerank of PR2. As I had registered this from a registrar not from someone off a message board, I was interested in how it accrued PR2.

This led me to google buymeaferrari.co.uk which led to a whole range of interesting stuff.

The Sun Newspaper

Turns out, that in September 2005, this domain name was featured in The Sun, you can read the article here. Turns out the guy who had this domain had a website that asked members of the public to donate money to buy him a Ferrari. Not a bad idea when you think it made him £212.12 - not entirely sure on the time frame for that though.

Autoblog

Autoblog also wrote an article about the site, however, they weren’t as nice as The Sun were. Really made me chuckle. Read the article here.

Club Scuderia

On the Club Scuderia message boards, there was also this discussion on the subject and a debate about how the guy planned to pay for insurance/fuel etc.

Lexus Owners Club

Another message board in on the discussion was that of Lexus Owners Club. They were along the same lines as the rest, basically having a go at the guy for the website. However, I think that T7RY B hit the nail on the head, he may be regarded as a fruit cake, but he still made some cash with it!

Day of Defeat Forums

Dear… the guy who had buymeaferrari.co.uk definitely did create a bit of a stir! Here’s another message board talking about it.

And the rest…

As there seems to be loads, here’s a few more following the same lines:

• Fastdrive Born To Ride Forum
• ScoobyNet
• Get A Freelancer <– Someone wants a clone of it
• Tyresmoke
• Neowin
• Pistonheads
• SpikedHumor

So, I am very surprised at the history that I didn’t even know existed!! Suppose it’s good to have some backlinks before I even start.

Right… where will I put the donate button hehe!