Boycott Moonstruck Chocolate

Well since eBay and a complainer flagging it down, namely Moonstruck to try and stop us all from helping Moonray, we have made it not so much a “For the Charity.”

Take a look here Stunning Oil Painting up for Auction

Politics at it’s finest!!! This is 98% Moonstruck Chocolate’s work, and surely this has been given considerable thought by stopping us trying to rival others to Boycott against Moonstruck Chocolate… Not much to say on this but here is the e-mail we all received in respect to the eBay pulling of our auction, did we say we are doing this FOR a Charity? I do NOT think so…

Dear duvallforums,

You recently listed the following auction-style listing:

140100317224 - Stunning Oil Painting up for Auction for Good Cause

The listing was removed because it violated the eBay Charity policy. The violation occurred when you included the following information in your listing:

Thanks for looking, you are bidding on an AUTHENTIC ONE-OF-A-KIND Artwork drawn by Beth Larson, Sister of the owner (Mike Snow) of Moonray Espresso, so I am here to auction off this fine piece of artwork for a good cause, but let me first tell you a bit of why I am auctioning it off first.

Today, after grabbing Beth’s computer from her yesterday, I said I’ll be more than happy to fix her issue she was having with it and blah blah, well little story short, there was this painting I wanted a while back, so after bringing her computer back too her at Moonray Espresso, she asked me if I still wanted the painting, as I gladly accepted it as payment, but then thought about bringing this to eBay and auctioning it off to the HIGHEST bidder, then taking all proceeds after fees of eBay, PayPal and Shipping and donating the remainder to Moonray Espresso’s legal defense fund.

So, why a defense fund?
What, am I crazy?

Why the defense fund you may ask, well read here why:
The Seattle Times by Sonia
Seattle Times Editorial
Oregon Live

Now after reading those three editorials, and seeing the news here in the Seattle area on Kiro 7, King 5, Komo 4, and many other stories that were ran about this Moonstruck vs. Moonray (Suing over the ‘Moon’), you see that these guys (Moonray Espresso) are a target of being bullied by Moonstruck Chocolate out of Portland, Oregon.

We have setup a whole forums area just for Moonray Espresso to have sole supporters come and discuss this and in hopes to gain more support and to pass on the word. Also, we have setup another website just for this cause here at: www.boycottmoonstruck.com to show you we will do anything in our powers to help assist this. We meaning, DuvallForums.com as a NOT FOR PROFIT COMMUNITY FORUMS!

What, am I crazy you may ask, well honestly no I am not crazy, I am perfectly sane, I do believe in thwarting off Corporate Bullies and will go to the furthest extent to help our little small town coffee shop as far as I need to go with it.
So you are bidding on a ONE-OF-A-KIND Oil Painting and I expect that the bidder does understand that freight will be on them after we close out here, because I will have to package this up specially and will have it shipped off with the best packaging that can be for this, whether it is in full fledge crate and etc… Because this work of art is going to help the legal defense fund for Moonray Espresso!

All shipping will be done within three business days after final payment is received, NO checks, NO money orders, ONLY PayPal or ONLY Certified Bank Drafts will be allowed. You have questions? Feel free to contact us on here by clicking Contact Seller.

Good luck and Happy Bidding, I will be passing this onto the Press at The Seattle Times, and the News Channels to see we have thrown this bid up for a “Good Cause.”

All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has
been canceled.

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You will have to read more on this in the attached PDF, found this for EVERYONES reading pleasure, not sure where I found this but it was found

Trademark Not a Copyright or a Patent

Check this auction out:

Oil Painting for Auction for Moonray Espresso.

All the best,

Moonstruck Chocolate Bully