NSPCC online auction raises £37,333
Howard Lake | 20 February 2001 | News
The NSPCC online auction in conjunction with MSN and QXL in September 1999 raised £37,333. Over 2,000 people placed bids during the auction and each lot attracted an average of 25 bidders. Victoria Parrish of the NSPCC said that “there were four million hits on the QXL site during the course of the auction and it was the most successful online charity auction they have ever held.”
One lot, a Web site makeover donated by Internet.Works magazine, raised £2,520.
Read UK Fundraising’s announcement of the auction in September 1999.
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Source: Internet.Works, January 2000, p.160
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