I share the final numbers with you guys:
Official ebay sales for completed auctions totaled $2,124.30. Roughly $350 of that had to be refunded with another $50 or so eat up in fees from paypal and ebay, but the wonderful and generous people of Your Mom's Basement made up for that with the Save Thomas' Ass fund raiser because i had to cover it or Missionfish, ebay's charity handler, was taking it directly out of my bank account, refunds to buyers or not. They also tagged another $300 or so onto it, all said and done YMB donations totaling well over $700, the rich so and sos.
So that's $2,124.30, the $300 extra from YMB, plus around another $400-500 I've gotten word of folks donating directly to the Candlelighters after hearing about this whole thing. It short, some where right around the neighborhood of three grand went to help out some sick kids and their families.
From my own family's experience, I can't begin to explain to you how far that will go. The Candlelighters were amazing to us. Did you know just parking at the Houston Medical Center costs $12 a day? That adds up QUICK. There's a ton of little things like that people never think of, but the Candlelighters do, and they help you deal with them.
I'm shipping some of the art tomorrow, then the rest that i have in hand on my next day off. This is just about all done now. It was interesting.
I'll have a very lengthy post about this whole experience from beginning to conclusion soon. I want to get it down for posterity.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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...Wow. That's awesome. I was worried that your setback would really make the final total suck, but that's still a great amount.
Someone should throw Your Mom's Basement a party!
What happened to the rest of the artwork. Never saw tom Beland's page up for sale.
It never went up. I never heard back from Beland after the first week or so, so I couldn't sell the page without confirmations he was still going to donate it.
Ok I understand. I was going to bid on it as I like his work and it was such a great page. Thanks..Will keep you bookmarked for any future auctions.
I'm glad to hear that the auctions did so well. It's a great cause.
As for the WB thing, I wonder if the lawsuit with Supes' creators had anything to do with it. Maybe they're extra cautious because of it.
Also, I was pretty amazed to see a mention of this on Peter David's website, and his own fix for it with a disclaimer he asks artist to use if they use his characters in a charity auction.
Overall, I've got to say that you handled this very well. Again, great work with the auction.
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