€55.811, close of the poll.

The Guitar Auction has closed at 375€ and we have received some more donations. As we have not transferred the money among the projects we have not closed all the donation channels, but we have closed some as the text messages and Moneybrokers.

The poll on Facebook has finished with the following results. Total 922 votes spread as following:

• 277 AMREF project at Samburo (30,043%)
• 283 Intermón-Oxfam project (30,694%)
• 362 Entreculturas project (39,263%)

Thanks for your participation! Thanks to the NGO for their support and collaboration!


Next weekend we will have a meeting to define how we want to continue. We'll keep you posted.

Thanks for being there!

PS: we have just reached 9.000 followers in twitter!! ;)  http://twitter.com/90mn90d

Poll and guitar auction almost over.

Hello!

Tonight at 23:59:59 CET we will close the poll and count the votes. Thanks to the 867 people that have already voted . To check the results or vote click here.

The auction of the Spanish guitar from Felipe Conde is still live and will end next Wednesday, this is the link: click here.

Thanks for being there! 

eBay has fixed the problem.

Good morning!

Yesterday eBay called us and we have a nice chat for about 50 minutes to solve the problem with our auctions. We have recovered all the articles that were on auction and they cancelled and also they have allowed us to highlight the guitar auction for free and have remove their commission from all our auctions to compensate for all the problems they have caused.

This is an extraordinary way to solve the problem, Bravo eBay! Thanks a lot!

Here you have the link to the auction:
 - Spanish Guitar from Felipe Conde

Problems with e-Bay: they have retired the guitar by mistake.

Good morning,

Last week we initiated a series of  Auctions: 4 “fisical” objects and Tweets by Famous Persons.
A the beginning our working-group cuestioned whether  Auctions of Tweets would be allowed with e-Bay, their policy being that these could be clasified as “downloadable articles”, but the case is that it is not prohibited.
We decided to proceed, since we observed similar cases : in the united States famous peoples Tweets have been auctioned through e-Bay, where the same policy as the above mentioned exists.This Link will lead you to an article in The Wall Street Journal.

On Tuesday 3rd of January we were notified by e-Bay that one of our Auctions of Tweets was being withdrawn since the way of advertising it was violating their policy of publication of advertisements.

On this same day we contacted via e-mail with e-Bay to solicit the re-incertation of the mentioned article, adverting about the precedent case in The United States and the cause for which the Tweets were auctioned.

Yesterday 4th of January at 9 am the bidding on  the Guitar Conde had surpassed 400€, and with 13 hours still remaining for biddings.

Later on it was retired by e-Bay together with the Auctions of Tweets.

We made a formal protest of the elimination of the Auction of the Guitar Conde, but received the answer that it had been retired by mistake together with the rest.At the same time they informed us that it is possible to insert the Guitar again, and they indicated us how to proceed.

Acceding e-Bay to do exactly that, to our surprise we discover that the Guitar had disappeared all together, while the Tweets were found in a “File” called “Not Auctionable”.

Since yesterday 4th of January, from 16.20 hours we have been trying to get in contact with e-Bay, but it has not been possible: they do not answer our e-mails and calling the 902 number is an infinite waste of time.

Could you help us with this problem, making e-Bay revise their error and also have them recompense us ?

Could Rubén Jud@rubenjud?

Thank you for being with us.