Casinoblasters wrote:
The parents and GP Marketing are two separate entities. The parents are putting up these sorts of auctions on EBay and GP is taking advantage of marketing and branding their product.
If your organisation refused to buy things like this, then perhaps the parents wouldn’t have put the name up for auction in the first place. I think you have to take some of the responsibility for creating this type of market in the first place. Go ahead and buy cars, toast and other objects, but to participate in forcing something on some-one who cannot defend themselves is crossing the line.
Branding, marketing, awareness etc is a convenient excuse and used far too often when people just plain stuff up and then try to cover themselves.