Monday, December 19, 2005

Not Done with Your Holiday Shopping?

Well, check out EBay...

Good morning:

We are a family from Wisconsin with a son presently stationed in Afghanistan...we would like to make you aware of a project we are working on through Ebay. The idea is to post auctions for digital photographs supplied by Soldiers stationed in the mideast, with the proceeds benefiting a Charity chosen by the contributing Soldier.

This is simply an effort to make life a little more bearable for our Soldiers while benefiting a good cause.

100% of the proceeds of the auctions are used to make charitable donations. 90% of the winning bid is collected by the Soldiers chosen Charity, with the remaining 10% being used for real expenses such as Ebay commissions (5.25%) and PayPal fees (2.9%). Ebay listing fees are recouped through a Shipping and Handling charge. With this system we come very close to breaking even, unless an auction has no bids and we end up paying the listing fee again.

This is where we could really use your help. With thousands of items running on Ebay at any given time we are basically lost at sea. Very few people are actually finding our auctions. We were hoping that you would consider mentioning our efforts somewhere on your website in an effort to both create traffic and to make the Soldiers aware that they are welcome to participate.

Any mention you can give us would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions regarding our efforts please don't hesitate to contact us. Check out our auctions on Ebay at:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZaid4soldiersQQhtZ-1

Or by doing a Ebay Search-for-Seller: Aid4Soldiers

Thanks in advance for your consideration,
Ric Daus
Aid4Soldiers
Appleton, Wisconsin USA

I can't vouch personally for these auctions, so I would encourage you to check them out for yourself, and to ask any questions you like of the seller. I can tell you that I am bidding....

posted by Pam @ 6:06 PM |

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