Creator Deezmaker's early bird offer of 75 pledges of $549 to bag a Bukito have all gone, but there are still a few pledge options at $599 (or more).
Their attitude seems to be: "We have no powers to block this deal, so we'd better cover our backs by extracting a few vague pledges".
But there have also been disappointments and not all were inevitable.Amid all his rhetoric about driving the bandits out of government, Mr Yushchenko made a few specific pledges.
And along with the discipline, he and his acolytes need to adopt New Labour's conviction that oppositions must win elections, rather than waiting for governments to lose them.Before 1997 Labour had a poisonous reputation of its own to dispel; it managed to do so while, with a few symbolic pledges, conveying a sense of how a Labour government would differ from the Tory one.
"In the $1 million to $5 million level, where the bulk of large campaign gifts fall, there have been a lot fewer pledges made, mostly because of a lack of confidence," he said.
Very few pledges have had to be written off.
The chances are that few pledges of donations were heard during the countless Burns suppers that took place last night, up and down the land.
While the AKP was previously able to take around 50% of all Kurdish votes on promises of peace and economic development, many of their supporters in Batman now voice their disappointment that only very few pledges have been delivered.
A few had pledged that they would rather "go without a Constitution and take the risk of civil war" than cast a vote for an atheist.
Britain, France, Germany and a few others pledged $6bn to fill the gap between the imminent end of the "fast start" finance and 2020, when the green climate fund supposedly kicks in, but the reality is that developing countries have little or nothing to help them adapt.
