Yahoo!'s online Furby auction for charity

Howard Lake | 5 April 1999 | News

Yahoo! is running an online auction of Furby toys to raise funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. The furry toy was the most popular – or most unpopular (depending on how much you were exposed to its burblings) – toy of Christmas 1998. These aren’t any old Furbies though: the five lots include Furby no. 1 from this season’s production line.

Yahoo! is running an online auction of Furby toys to raise funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. The furry toy was the most popular – or most unpopular (depending on how much you were exposed to its burblings) – toy of Christmas 1998. These aren’t any old Furbies though: the five lots include Furby no. 1 from this season’s production line.

You might recall that Yahoo! Auctions has already run an online auction for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Over Christmas the non-profit received $25,000 from a month-long auction of 1,000 Furbies on behalf of children’s charities.

Source:

• E-shopping makes e-charity a reality (6 April 1999)
  
• Record breakers (6 April 1999)
  
• E-mail SOS (6 April 1999)
  

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.