Con or Bust helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF cons. It will be taking requests for assistance attending cons in April, May, and June from February 15-25, 2013. For now, this post is where to find out more about requesting assistance.

Con or Bust's annual online auction will run from February 9-24, 2013. I am in the process of moving ( Read more... )

Bidding is now closed. Here's what comes next:

If you were bidding on an auction,

1. You may, but are not required to, request confirmation that you are the winner. Generally speaking, this should not be necessary. However, if you have doubts or want to be extra-sure, leave a comment and I or the seller will respond.
2. Pay for what you've won. Click ( Read more... )

Bidding in the Con or Bust auction, which helps fans of color/non-white fans go to SFF cons, ends tomorrow, Sunday February 26, at 11:59 EST (GMT -5). (Many of the earlier auctions have erroneous boilerplate saying bidding ends Sunday February 25, which of course doesn't exist. Sorry about that ( Read more... )

Updated 1:30 p.m. February 25.
I have for you two lists of auctions: first, auctions with two or fewer bids; and second, auctions that have more than two bids but nevertheless seem to have attracted less attention than I would have expected. Why not take a look at these lists and see if you've overlooked something of interest?
( Auctions with two or fewer bids: )

First: the auction ends this coming Sunday, February 26th, at 11:59 p.m. EST. There is no Sunday the 25th, as all the prior boilerplate said. (D'oh!)

Second: last year we raised about $9,300 (about $7,000 of that in auction bids). This year, of course, is the first full year that Con or Bust is helping fans of color/non-white fans attend any con ( Read more... )

Bidding is open now (and has been, but I was working on getting up some more auction items). As a reminder, here's how to bid on an auction; and if you haven't been keeping up with everything that's been posted, here's how to browse auctions.

Finally, it is very much not too late to offer things to be auctioned! We have fewer auctions so far this ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce this year's auction to support Con or Bust, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions. Bidding starts Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:01 a.m. EST (GMT -5) and ends Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST. You may post auction offers and make donations now.

For more details, please see these ( Read more... )

Hi all-sorry for the silence on the comm. As soon as the biggest rush of post-auction work here finished, I was pretty thoroughly occupied by my, you know, paying day job.

This year we raised a hair over $8,500 (approximately $7,000 from the auction and the rest from donations, including some very generous anonymous ones). We received requests for ( Read more... )

Bidding is now closed. Here's what comes next:

If you were bidding on an auction,

1. You may, but are not required to, request confirmation that you are the winner. Generally speaking, this is not necessary. However, if you have doubts or want to be extra-sure, leave a comment and I or the seller will respond.
2. Pay for what you've won. Click on the ( Read more... )

Hi all,

A very quick morning-for-me update to say that bidding ends tonight at 11:59 PM EST (GMT -5) (time conversions around the world), or in just under 15 hours.

Thank you all for spreading the word and offering last minute items! Here is the last edition of the zero/no bids list:

No bids:

• Tutoring
• Three trivia books about Stephen King
• ( Read more... )