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I know I've fallen very behind with respect to the upkeep of this place but I am hoping that by now, things should more or less have been tied up for round 1. If there are any concerns or problems that anyone feels should be addressed, I would appreciate it if you could comment here or leave me a PM. I've sent out some more emails and messages ( Read more... )

So the official deadline for the offerings to be completed was October 1st but because we haven't been the most organized folks ourselves and we understand that it's been a bit of a chaotic process for everyone to get a hold of each other, we're letting people take a little more time in getting their promised offerings done. That said, unless you ( Read more... )

So because many of you have asked, going from my very rough tally of the confirmations so far:

As of mid-September, we have just gone over $18 000 (US) of confirmed donations!

and this is not including predonations, donations of some offerers who matched bids, and all the people who have not confirmed donations with us yet (and there are still ( Read more... )

Hey folks! We're still alive and resurfacing to make some announcements/reminders:

All the comments on the donation confirmation station up to about a day or two ago have been logged, as have most of the emails received last week. Also, offerers have been notified for most emails received last week. That said, we still have lots of blanks, meaning ( Read more... )

So turns out that the email address for the community on the "You won" notification is wrong and this is entirely my absent-minded mistake. (thank you, slowascent  for bringing this to my attention!)

If you won an auction and sent an email confirmation to the mods and just the mods and not your offerer, PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK THAT IT WAS SENT TO helppakistan.lj ( Read more... )

AND WE'RE DONE!

All new comments from here on in will be screened. You can still leave questions and we will still see them and try to respond to them even though it may take us a little longer.

PLEASE NOTE: I have decided to allow offerers to contact their winning bidders directly, realizing that this would save us a lot of time. Mods will also ( Read more... )

Round 1 will be closing at 1 PM EST Sunday!

Summary of events:

[please make sure you read this carefully and are also familiar with this post, especially the FOR BIDDERS and FOR OFFERERS sections, as much of the procedure has been outlined already]

( auction closing procedures )

With the round closing in less than 12 hours, I'm setting up some resources that will be useful once winning bidders are notified.

(On that note, here is a countdown courtesy of kirax2!)

So once the round has closed and the winning bidder has been informed of their win, they will confirm their donation in one of two ways:

1) by notifying the offerer ( Read more... )

So you have around 10 minutes to get your offerings in for this round.

We are not physically going to be locking new comments as bidding is still open until 1 PM EST TOMORROW but we ask that you please respect this request and not submit further offers in order to make the auction more efficient near its end and make housekeeping easier for your ( Read more... )