"A Student" Selling His Notes On eBay

Healium

http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/a-is-for-audacious-as-top-student-sells-notes-2311983.html

"If they can gain me an A grade then it can do the same for you." :pac:

phasers

€40 per subject?!?

Healium

phasers wrote: »

€40 per subject?!?

Starting price

Teferi

Enterprising bloke. Fair play to him.

RolandIRL

anyone who buys this is extremely stupid. notes alone won't do it for you. it's just like having another book in front of you. unless you write the notes out yourself and properly understand them, you're just fooling yourself if you buy these.

it's also piss poor preparation for college. you're not going to be able to buy notes in 3rd level. you're going to get a massive shock when you go to college, and have to fend for yourself.

but it's their loss, anyone buys them.

Coeurdepirate

whiteman19 wrote: »

anyone who buys this is extremely stupid. notes alone won't do it for you. it's just like having another book in front of you. unless you write the notes out yourself and properly understand them, you're just fooling yourself if you buy these.

it's also piss poor preparation for college. you're not going to be able to buy notes in 3rd level. you're going to get a massive shock when you go to college, and have to fend for yourself.

but it's their loss, anyone buys them.

Isn't that the whole point? So that extremely stupid people can do well/ I can't see the extremely smart ones buying these :rolleyes:

gant0

Hah whoever buys these and uses just them for their As' will surely be in for a shock come results day 2011.Thoe whole reason why notes are good is because you write them yourself and so you understand it an they stick in your head easier.It also makes it easier for revision cause you know where everything means and where it is.

TheReverend

Smart chap, why wouldnt he sell them if people will buy them. Nice to have some money for freshers week :P

felic

why doesnt he photocopy em and make several copies and sell em? lol.
Seriously though, good on him for trying it. Most people throw their leaving cert notes in the trash, stick em in the attic or just give them away.
Not really sure why its making headlines though. So what like? Theres far stranger stuff for sale on Ebay!

Gardoggle

notes are of limited use anyway. I get A grades but cant read my own notes a couple of hours after the lecture. its better to make sure you get the relevant reading done, no-one can do your work for you, even if you pay them..

UpTheSlashers

Hell definitely get a bit of bob for them. It was mentioned on the radio, in the times, the indo and on boards, he couldnt have wished for better advertisment :pac:

theowen

Was wondering how to get rid of my notes...

salthillman

I'd buy them, not for over €20 tho...

Healium

whiteman19 wrote: »

anyone who buys this is extremely stupid. notes alone won't do it for you. it's just like having another book in front of you. unless you write the notes out yourself and properly understand them, you're just fooling yourself if you buy these.

it's also piss poor preparation for college. you're not going to be able to buy notes in 3rd level. you're going to get a massive shock when you go to college, and have to fend for yourself.

but it's their loss, anyone buys them.

Exactly, you're much better off just writing out your own notes, in a way that YOU'LL understand them, not anyone else

I'll be interested to see if anyone buys haha

Victoria.

Hmm..
I think that notes are a personal thing, for instance if you're an individual who is a visual learner your notes will be filled with spider diagrams and colourful maps. For somebody who prefers lists of information spider diagrams would be unsuitable and a waste of their time unless they could completely alter their way of studying. What works for someone won't work in the same way for the next. If someone could find a universally successful method they would be a billionaire but it is unlikely that it exists. I inherited notes from others but I always had to alter them and write them out in a way that my brain liked to look at and could absorb the information.

I searched for them on ebay but couldn't find them, wonder what type of notes he used.

Glico Man

Heres a Link for his maths notes

€11 p&p?!?!

soccymonster

He got bids on the irish, french and music notes anyways. Fair play :P

His description of the product is very persuasive but the price, not so much!

EuropeanSon

Do people get their money back if they don't get these "guaranteed As" he promises? :P

**Timbuk2**

You gotta admire this chap, in a way!

I have loads of Accounting sample questions done out - I'll offer €30

I'll probably just give the notes to some of my friends going into sixth year - I have no younger siblings and it would be a shame to waste them - although they aren't very good, I'm terrible at making notes.

Bucklesman

People are actually bidding! :eek:

A fool and his money tbh. Or four of them.

Jayeire

Must have been a slow day at the office, if this actually made the paper...

Who cares! lol.

SDTimeout

Shows the flaws of the education system here in Ireland that you can learn it off and spit it out as opposed to students being rewarded for being enterprising and initiative.

theowen

Anyone think I can sell my institute notes online? Can give a similiar speech as yer man...they're the only reason I'm going to Trinity...etc:rolleyes:

loike

theowen wrote: »

Anyone think I can sell my institute notes online? Can give a similiar speech as yer man...they're the only reason I'm going to Trinity...etc:rolleyes:

i think they are copyrighted lol

super_furry

The head on him. He looks about 40.

Fad

Fair play to him tbh.

Still trying to figure out why Gary Redmond was quoted in the article.....

theowen

loike wrote: »

i think they are copyrighted lol

Sooooo...:rolleyes:

randylonghorn

theowen wrote: »

Sooooo...:rolleyes:

It's called "illegal", Owen! :P

**Timbuk2**

Owen, you could give the institute notes to your friends for free - this wouldn't be illegal (afaik) and they would be glad of them, although I got a lend of some institute notes off one of my friends before and I didn't think much of them. Some swear by them though.

theowen

randylonghorn wrote: »

It's called "illegal", Owen! :P

I know I know I know. It's just if I sell them on ebay say, what could they do really? I'd never try it on here of course...:D

theowen

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Owen, you could give the institute notes to your friends for free - this wouldn't be illegal (afaik) and they would be glad of them, although I got a lend of some institute notes off one of my friends before and I didn't think much of them. Some swear by them though.

I'm the youngest of my friends, literally know no one doing the LC at the mo:rolleyes:

UpTheSlashers

He must be good at French
http://offer.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=190434881948

**Timbuk2**

theowen wrote: »

I'm the youngest of my friends, literally know no one doing the LC at the mo:rolleyes:

Ah... do you have any younger siblings you could keep them for?

Curlyhatescurls

Ha this is hilarious. I know this guy, in fact I sat beside him for lunch most days. I gave all my notes to my friends cause I want them to do well and not some strangers with loads of money, it saves my friends the expense:)

theowen

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Ah... do you have any younger siblings you could keep them for?

Nope, youngest in the family too. Is there anyway I could off load them for free on here even? Shame to just throw away these *excellent* notes.

Some are quite crap...

CianDon

If anyone actually has any notes lying around that they're finished wish give me a shout

Finical

UpTheSlashers wrote: »

He must be good at French
http://offer.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=190434881948

Is that a thousand Euro or am I going blind? :eek:

Fairplay to the lad.

Everything In Its Right Place

Finical wrote: »

Is that a thousand Euro or am I going blind? :eek:

Fairplay to the lad.

probably joke bids

GEasy

UpTheSlashers wrote: »

He must be good at French
http://offer.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=190434881948

Holy ****! €1000 . WTF?

Lawliet

Someone's got to be taking the p1ss; you could just get a really good grinds teacher for that amount, that would be more to you than a set of notes.

loike

the same person is bidding on everything by the looks of it lol (as a joke as well)

**Timbuk2**

If you win a bid, aren't you required to pay for the item?

Healium

LOL. Joke bids. They can't FORCE you to pay

Victoria.

What is wrong with that person or indeed anyone paying over 100 euro?

You could put 1000 towards an exchange!!!

soccymonster

CianDon wrote: »

If anyone actually has any notes lying around that they're finished wish give me a shout

oh same here :P

Lads, this has to be a joke.
I feel sorry for him seeing as it seemed to be genuine at the beginning.
Ah sure!

leavingcert

I'm sorry guys but this guy just takes the biscuit.
Here in Galway he is all over the local papers saying that he doesn't have enough money for college and stuff. He's looking for pity!
I'd love to know how many folders of notes you'd be getting for a grand?

He's a greedy attention seeking person.

Jaafa

Yep just look at the names of the bidders...I dont think he has gotten a single actual bid...and wont now, as the price is far too high.

leavingcert

UpTheSlashers wrote: »

He must be good at French
http://offer.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=190434881948

... he isnt

leavingcert

Curlyhatescurls wrote: »

Ha this is hilarious. I know this guy, in fact I sat beside him for lunch most days. I gave all my notes to my friends cause I want them to do well and not some strangers with loads of money, it saves my friends the expense:)

I agree curly!

He's just looking for attention...
His facebook status updates are the worst...

leavingcert

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Owen, you could give the institute notes to your friends for free - this wouldn't be illegal (afaik) and they would be glad of them, although I got a lend of some institute notes off one of my friends before and I didn't think much of them. Some swear by them though.

True.. you need to be thought with the notes.
Notes by themselves are worthless!

An Fear Bocht

I think a few armchair judges ought to get down off their moral high-chairs and stop acting as if they know what's right and wrong. This situation is really quite simple - he's a man selling his study notes on Ebay. A rather straightforward business transaction. Whoever bids the most gets his notes, the seller gets his money, everybody's happy. How he's "greedy" and "attention seeking" or how the buyer is "extremely stupid" is unknown to me; €1,000 is clearly way too much, but the starting price of €40 would actually have been a steal, provided that the notes are neat and don't make omissions. It's his right to put his own notes up for sale and anyone who believe they can gain from these notes are more than entitled to bid.

We have to remember that not everybody's notes are scribbly and untidy; some people go through a fair bit of effort to make detailed and easy-to-understand notes. I don't know the seller and therefore haven't seen his notes, but if they are as described, I can imagine that someone will find them quite helpful next year.

A few people seem to be going under the assumption that the buyer is going to rely solely on these notes for an A1; I think whoever buys them will already have copped on to the fact that there's more to it than just notes. The notes for sale are simply a condensed and concise version of the syllabus designed to save time and catalyse revision - if someone wants to take this shortcut, so what? The eventual buyer does of course have class to go to and homework to do, hence he/she will probably have a good foundation of knowledge. One poster attempted to make the link between somebody buying these notes and not having the ability to take notes in college; going by that logic, I suppose anyone who uses their big brother/sisters' study notes is simply waiting to be shown up and found out once they go to college. The notion simply doesn't add up; using someone else's notes is simply not proof that they themselves were incapable in the first place. One can spend hours and hours taking notes - if they're already available at the right price, who are we to judge them for snapping up the opportunity?

I will have to join the many people in this thread saying fairplay - at least he's using his initiative, which is not exactly ubiquitous among young people these days. I can expect that when the auction ends that he will be a happy man selling his notes to happy customers for a tidy sum of money; the amount of money will inevitably be absurd, but to be honest, that's not really our concern. For all involved, they'll come out of it with something they originally lacked - money for the seller and concise notes for the buyers.