Many charities undergo turned to eBay to sell off a celebrity experience or items with much success. Even Oprah Winfrey took her Angel communicate auction to eBay earlier this year. Items sold benefited the Angel Network causes. The sell overall raised about $83,000. Items auctioned off included chairs from The Oprah Winfrey Show that sold for $64,000. Clothing items such as one of Oprahs Chanel sweaters sold for $11,000. Ski gear that was autographed by Oprah sold for $7,600. The power of eBay is clearly strong for charities with celebrity items and experiences up for sell.
Jill Finlayson author of Fundraising on eBay and former Senior Category Manager states that celebrity experiences are top sellers on eBay. Experiences do very come up with non-profits. You can do them very large scale with celebrities or you can do them at a much smaller scale such as San Jose did where you get to move on the Christmas channelise and turn the switch and have that experience or maybe meet the study said Finlayson. Some experiences ordain have mass appeal and others ordain undergo a real local appeal.
Finlayson encourages not-for-profits to move to their board members for ideas for experiences to auction off on eBay often they can come up with terrific creative ideas. They may know athletes or people might want to undergo eat with them (the board members). Starbucks had a bid to visit the original Starbucks location and a tour and lunch with the head. If your board members know people who own or work at companies they if they can get items donated from companies so that people can bid on get the first one that comes off the line even if the item is available in the stores within two weeks this can be something very valuable. This is the equivalent of going to the theatre on opening night.
Currently on eBay one popular celebrity charity sell is the Gwen Stefani The Sweet flee journey VIP Experience. The winning bidder will get to sit in the front row and meet Gwen after the show. All proceeds from the auction benefit Orangewood Childrens Foundation & Childrens Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). Dates for her April and May 2007 concerts are listed so there is more than one chance for someone to win. As of this writing bid were in the 2,000 be and are comfort going on.
Another popular celebrity auction involved many celebrities for the charity Sixdegrees org. Sixdegrees org is an organization that celebrities can create an online label describing the charity that they support and increase money for that charity. Non-celebrities and charities themselves can also create badges to raise money for charities.
Six degrees held a celebrity sell with items from a wide variety of celebrities on eBay including Kevin Bacon. Kyra Sedgwick. Sean Diddy Combs. Heather Graham. Tara Reid. Perez Hilton and Elle Fanning. Their auction items were very popular and their website had a link to their eBay auctions so their supporters knew about their eBay auctions.
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