[meteorite-list] charity olivine gabbro lunar aucton

[stan .]

I had an auction running on ebay closing today that was tied with Geoff's 
meteorite community charrity raffle effort - for a 4g complete slive of my 
new olivine gabbro lunar. earlier this morning ebay cancled the auction 
after sending me the following emails - copied at the end of this post.

I had no idea there was so much red tape involved with charity efforts on 
ebay. I am not willing to use ebay's mission fish charity program because 
mission fish is aparently a FOR PROFIT organization! furthermore they 
require sellers to provide their credit card info to them over the internet 
so that the amount of a charity auction can be automatically charged to 
their visa right after the sale - something I'm not comfortable with doing.

SO... I'm still interested in contributing to this effort, I figured the 
best alternitive to the ebay auction aproach would be to solicit offers from 
interested parties over the next few day. There were over 30 watchers for 
this auction - if anyone has any intrest please let me know.

Thanks
Stan

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Dear laserprogram,

We appreciate that you chose eBay to list the following listing(s):

6560273044 - NWA 2727 olivine-phyric mare basalt lunar meteorite


However, your listing was in violation of eBay's Charity policy.

Your listing(s) contains the following information:

All net proceeds from this sale will go directly to the American Red 
Cross<br>

eBay encourages community members to be active in supporting charitable 
endeavors.  Because charitable fundraising is a highly regulated area 
subject to numerous state and federal laws, eBay has partnered with 
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Dear laserprogram,

We appreciate that you chose eBay to list the following listing(s):

6560273044 - NWA 2727 olivine-phyric mare basalt lunar meteorite


However, your listing was in violation of eBay's Inappropriate Links policy 
and has been removed from eBay.  We have credited all associated fees to 
your account and notified eBay users associated with the transaction that it 
has been cancelled.

  We would like to take this opportunity to let you know what part of your 
listing is not permitted.

Your listing(s) contains the following information:

http://www.aerolite.org/meteorite-raffle.htm<br>

eBay allows only the following types of links in a sellers item's 
description:

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relevant information is within the listing itself and that this page does 
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pixels and it may not flash or otherwise move. (The exception to this 
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on Inappropriate Links visit the following Help page:


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