[finsburyparkranger]

Hello one and all,

I would like to announce that I have placed my DFACE 'fools gold' print up for Auction with 50% of the total profits going to the 'ORBIS' charity and the rest of any profits (after Ebay fee's and the £150 cost of buying the print ) going to the official SOS charity that works for disadvantaged children in bangc**k. So essentially this is a 'not for profit' sale.

The orbis donation is guaranteed by ebay and any donations to the SOS charity will hopefully be confirmed by bejoir. Is that possible Bejoir?

Orbis are a fantastic sight saving organisation that work in the developed world and prevent blindness. Here's some ideas of how your money will be spent...

* £10 allows us to distribute sight saving antibiotics to 37 children in Ethiopia
* £20 pays for a sight saving cataract operation on an adult in India
* £50 pays for health education and training to prevent dangerous eye infections in children in Bangladesh
* £100 enables an ORBIS trained eye doctor to spend a week treating patients in poor rural areas in Vietnam

I've also gift aided the auction so the government must give 28% of whatever money is raised to orbis on top.

If you are interested in getting a Dface print please bid on this auction as you can garantee your money will make a massive difference to many peoples lives. In the spirit of 'peace', please bid generously !

Here's the link...

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250137938249

250137938249

[bobbyt23]

Very Noble gesture FPR. Hope it gets a good sale price for both charities benefit.

[budoukiba]

That great FPR + 1 to you! If i wasn't moving away i'd be bidding!

[budoukiba]

ok, i just + 1'd someone else so it wont let me, ill do it later

[mcnuts]

very cool.

[stuey09]

Nice idea FPR. Gets a plus 1 from me.

[corblimeylimey]

Well done FPR big respect to you, and good luck.


EDIT: stotesbury-bracegirdle ;D ;D

[finsburyparkranger]

corblimeylimey said:

Well done FPR big respect to you, and good luck.


EDIT: stotesbury-bracegirdle ;D ;D

shurrup, thats not me! ... again. ;D

[stuey09]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[finsburyparkranger]

Oops I hope that reads how its supposed to read, the SOS charity will get all profit AFTER £150 cost for the print and ebay fee's and the orbis donation have been discluded. Maybe I need to change the wording a bit. Basically all the Profit from the sale will be donated to charity.


EDIT: Its a nice number too 15/75 !

[mcnuts]

finsburyparkranger said:

Oops I hope that reads how its supposed to read, the SOS charity will get all profit AFTER £150 cost for the print and ebay fee's and the orbis donation have been discluded. Ive got a 5K debt, I really can't afford to give it all away. Maybe I need to change the wording a bit. Basically all the Profit from the sale will be donated to charity.


EDIT: Its a nice number too 15/75 !

makes sense to me mate. get back your £150 and then look at each hour you spent in line for the print as raising cash for charity. very cool!

[finsburyparkranger]

Cheers Mc nuts. Thats the way i'm looking at it. Some people run marathons to raise cash for charity, I sink a load of cold beers whilst chatting about art. ;D

[discoduster]

Now I know you did only go for the booze!

[finsburyparkranger]

Not to forget also enjoying some fantastic art at stolenspace for free as well.

[curiousgeorge]

FPR, that is a cool thing to do. While i will not bidding on the auction, i'm certain i could make a donation to the very worthy cause. If you could help me by pointing me in the direction to direct donation link please PM me with it. Heck even stick it up this thread so perhaps others will know where to donate, should they so wish

[finsburyparkranger]

Thanks george,

Any donations to 'Orbis' can be made here...

www.orbis.org.uk/bins/donation_page.asp?cid=158

I've Pm'd Bejoir to ask the best way UK or US citizens can give a donation to to HDF (human development programme). On the web site it seems its more designed for thai people to give. So info on giving to HDF is to follow.

[finsburyparkranger]

Oops the 'bejoir' PM name is not working, am i doing something wrong? Will contact SOS as well to help.

[curiousgeorge]

Try Beejoir

* £100 enables an ORBIS trained eye doctor to spend a week treating patients in poor rural areas in Vietnam

This is "do-able" amongst forum members?

[finsburyparkranger]

curiousgeorge said:

Try Beejoir

* £100 enables an ORBIS trained eye doctor to spend a week treating patients in poor rural areas in Vietnam

This is "do-able" amongst forum members?

It sure is. just to be fair here's the HDF charity page. It accepts credit card gifts and you can email to arrange other payment.

www.mercycentre.org/pledge.html

Yes its amazing how much good you can do for such little amount of money. Its also not that hard to combine a little charity gift in an ebay sale. Even 5% or 10% of sale price can really change lives and relieve that guilt of making a 100% profit on a print that was flipped after a couple of days because on seeing it for real, you decided it wasn't your thing.

[discoduster]

BUMP

The charities donations bit is one of ebays only good points.

[finsburyparkranger]

Jesus ebay have pulled the charity print for copyright violations for using some of someones elses text or image in the description. Ok I'm a bit new to all this and didn't realise that you cant copy and paist other people's text to save time. I'll write up another description and see if that works. I presume i can use the same image of the 'fools gold' prints hanging in the studio? Does anyone know?

[bobbyt23]

Is it worth contacting e-bay to ask exactly why.

Doesn't someone normally have to complain for them to take action and pull a listing?

[®at]

bobbyt23 said:

Doesn't someone normally have to complain for them to take action and pull a listing?

yes

[slacker]

bobbyt23 said:

Is it worth contacting e-bay to ask exactly why.

Doesn't someone normally have to complain for them to take action and pull a listing?

yeah - somebody has to complain. it has happened to me before where sellers would wait until a couple of hours before to bump up the price of their own auction.

it is most likely the text which is the problem but if it is the same text and image and the seller can demonstrate that they put it up first then they can do that.

despite the fact that the image came from d*face you could have this problem again. ebay will not respond with any more than a standard e-mail. it's their way unfortunately.

well done fpr have a +1 on me...

[corblimeylimey]

I'd take your own photo if I were you, I'd be pissed if someone used a photo of one of my prints to sell theirs.

[slacker]

corblimeylimey said:

I'd take your own photo if I were you, I'd be pissed if someone used a photo of one of my prints to sell theirs.

same photo has been used for all auctions that i have seen. think it's the one which appeared on the d*face myspace.

[ricosg11]

very honorable to donate, good on you.

[frank11]

Well played, hope you get a great price for it!!!

[corblimeylimey]

It was probably another grumpy seller annoyed by the fact you were taking interest away from his sale by making yours more worthy due to the charity donation that reported you.

[finsburyparkranger]

Ok I've cropped photo's and edited the blurb so no copyright card can be used to stop the auction and set it to start again at 7.30pm tonight to give it the best chance of a good sale (finishing monday evening).

Here's the link...

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250138473232

Trying to stop an auction that will help a blind person get the necessary operation to make them see again is pretty damn low. Feeling a bit angry about that one.