--->>Chris Hill Donation Auction House Online<<----

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08-13-2011, 10:38 PM
DrGonzo

--->>Chris Hill Donation Auction House Online<<----

Please be sure to pass and post thins link everywhere you can!!!

In light of Chris being in the hospital so much and Vicki with him all the time, I am going to go ahead and get the auction house live so we can start to get things listing and get traffic to the site.

This is just like an ebay auction. Certain things you have to pay fees on in order to list the item. The only difference is those fees are a direct donation to Chris to help him fight cancer. When you create an auction your will be required to pay the donation fee before the auction goes live. All payments must be made through Paypal directly into Vicki's paypal account. This is not just for car parts. you can auction anything and everything you want as long as it is legal and not hazardous!!!

Here is the fee tier:

Fees are as follows
Home Page Feature - $0.25
Highlighted Item - $0.25
Image upload - Free
Relist Fee - Free
Bold Item - $0.25
Reserved Price - $0.25
Buy Now - $0.50

Final Price fee schedule is percentage based on final sale price and is as follows
$0.01 - $49.99 : 2%
$50.00 - $99.99 : 2.5%
$100.00 - $199.99 : 3%
$200.00 - $499.99 : 3.5%
$500.00 - $999.99 : 4%
$1,000.00 - $4,999.99 : 5%
$5,000.00+ : 8%

All sellers are responsible for posting shipping prices. Unfortunatly this is not a high tech auction so there is no auto shipping calculator. Please use you best judgement in posting a shipping price. Any shipping price you post is final. You cannot contact the buyer and ask for more money if you shorted yourself on the original shipping price.

Donation Items
If you have an item that you want to donate, please post it up as you normally would and PM me so I can waive the donation fees! Once you create the auction and it sends you to Paypal do not pay the fees! Just close out of the window and let me know. I can manually set the auction live without having to pay the fees. If you pay the fee I cannot refund them as they go into Vicki and Chris's account. What I have to do for the Donations Items is waive the fee through the auction software. So when you created the auction and it sends you to Paypal just ignore it and go back to the auction. It will show as a pending auction in your account. At that point I can activate it and you don't get hit with the fees.

You will process the auction and ship just like a normal auction. Once the item sells and you receive payment please be sure to transfer that money to Vicki's Paypal account. This seems to be the best option without having to deal with transferring money to cover shipping, mailing items to one person to sell, ETC.

I am hoping to not have issues with this as it is really going off of a person honesty that they will transfer the funds after the item sells.

Also please specify in the title or Body of the auction that your item is a full donation to the Chris.

Here is the main page with the story and introduction. Auction link is at the top.

Chris Hill's Fight Against Cancer

Some changes may be made throughout the process if we run into issues. Please PM me and let me know if anyone has any questions or concerns.
08-14-2011, 01:02 AM
DuTTch

okay I am stupid, the link ontop links back to this post, besides chris story I can not find a link to the auction site?
08-14-2011, 08:34 AM
IronmanTT

Mark click on the "Chris Hill Story" TITLE it will take you to the auction site. Nothing is listed on 3s so far was looking to maybe buy some stuff. Do you have to be registered to see items?
08-14-2011, 09:31 AM
J. Fast

Sweet Greg! Man, that's super considerate! Looks great.

So we use the aution link to list the item, and then the donation link once we get paypal'd? All my stuff is donation items so waive the fees for me if you would sir.

Jeremy

EDIT: For user login do I use my colorado3s login? Can you merge that info into the app? Where is the register tab? <--- nevermind
08-14-2011, 11:04 AM
DrGonzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by DuTTch

okay I am stupid, the link ontop links back to this post, besides chris story I can not find a link to the auction site?

Now there is a big flashing -->CLICK HERE<-- for those who can't find the link to the auction...LOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by IronmanVR4

Mark click on the "Chris Hill Story" TITLE it will take you to the auction site. Nothing is listed on 3s so far was looking to maybe buy some stuff. Do you have to be registered to see items?

You do not need to register to see the items. Just to bid and sell. Items are now starting to show up on the auction site.
08-14-2011, 11:06 AM
J. Fast

Put two complete transmission rebuild kits on there, an HKS turbo timer, and some arp bolts.
08-14-2011, 11:36 AM
vr4chick

Some cool stuff going up...:Bow:
08-14-2011, 09:31 PM
green-lantern

WOW, just amazing! Great job man! You have knocked it out of the park with this. I'm so proud to be part of this community. :)
08-14-2011, 10:18 PM
vr4chick

I tossed up a KC jacket....:)
08-15-2011, 02:10 AM
mb3000

Gonzo, I'm waiting on my confirmation email for my account to be activated, & I would like to donate a set of Gorilla's :suspect:

Oh, and free bump!
08-15-2011, 12:55 PM
DrGonzo

Yesterdays statistics for the auction house:

3sgto.org 77
(Direct Link) 39
facebook.com 15
socal3s.com 8
3si.org 6
m.facebook.com 4
rx7club.com 4
camaroforums.com 1
colorado3s.org 1
forums.evolutionm.net 1

Total: 156

now those are unique people hitting the auction not the same person over an over again.

Total traffic for yesterday was: 524 page views throughout the day.

So the site is getting the traffic but we need to get items posted up there!!

Side note: I do see a trend and more loyalty coming from this site than any other. I did find that very interesting!!
08-15-2011, 01:09 PM
mb3000

I posted up on rx7club, camaroforums, and evom as well as many others to get the word out. The rx7 guys have shown the most support so far.
08-15-2011, 02:58 PM
92pearltt

just registered will post up the datalogger in the next day or 2.
08-15-2011, 03:19 PM
green-lantern

Is there an easy way to tell if all the money is going to Chris? I know you wanted people to note it but it would be nice to see % of sale or something.
08-15-2011, 03:54 PM
DrGonzo

Only Vicki or Chris could tell us that as I con't have access to their Paypal account.
08-15-2011, 04:12 PM
green-lantern

I’m going to be much more likely to buy something if I know all proceeds are going to Chris and Vicki. Can you add that as a question when listing the item or something? When you wave somebody’s fee can you make sure there is a note in the listing saying all proceeds going to cancer fund? IDK, I guess it isn’t that big of a deal.
08-15-2011, 04:51 PM
DrGonzo

Yeah in the end it is really up to the seller as to what they want to donate. Not like I can go into their Paypal account and get the money if they short it on the donation. I'm good but not that good...LOL
08-15-2011, 05:00 PM
mb3000

Quote:

Originally Posted by green-lantern

I’m going to be much more likely to buy something if I know all proceeds are going to Chris and Vicki. Can you add that as a question when listing the item or something? When you wave somebody’s fee can you make sure there is a note in the listing saying all proceeds going to cancer fund? IDK, I guess it isn’t that big of a deal.

I just edited my listing subtitle, check it out!
08-15-2011, 05:49 PM
green-lantern

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrGonzo

Yeah in the end it is really up to the seller as to what they want to donate. Not like I can go into their Paypal account and get the money if they short it on the donation. I'm good but not that good...LOL

I'm just talking about their intentions. IDT somebody would say they were going to give all the money then keep it. I'd just like to know if the money from the part I'm bidding on is supposed to go to Chris or just part of it. I would probably bid higher or mainly bid on the ones that were 100% donation. If a seller claimed 100% then kept it I guess he would just have to deal with the guilt.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mb3000

I just edited my listing subtitle, check it out!

Cool, I will
08-16-2011, 07:58 PM
green-lantern

Bump!

Registered
08-17-2011, 05:56 PM
stealthII

Added an A/C compressor on the auction. All $ will go to Chris's fund and I'll probably send over additional $ on top of that.
08-19-2011, 12:13 AM
TurboSinceBirth

I will post up everything I have listed for sale on here and the other forums on the auction site over the weekend when I get some time. I'd rather donate there than give eBay my fees.

Edit: I posted up a few things and I will do some more tomorrow. If my 93 VR-4 sells I'll be getting another 3S.
08-20-2011, 10:34 AM
Ninja Performance

You guys are awesome.

And Greg, I don't even know where to start to thank you for this. You have done a astonishing job on the site in such a short time.

-Chris
08-24-2011, 09:56 AM
DrGonzo

Lots of items up for grab at the auction house.

Please take a look when you can and post up your for sale items....

Chris Hills Fight Against Cancer
08-24-2011, 05:26 PM
Frostedbutts

Hey Gonzo, what's the length of the filter you have for sale on there? Is it 4" diameter or 4" in length?
08-24-2011, 06:53 PM
DrGonzo

9" in long and 4" diameter.

BTW you sig image popped up as being blocked for malware. Might want to look at hosting it somewhere else.