Author Topic: OMG its only June but here is very important news about the Purrs Auction 2013  (Read 27388 times)

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Sounds fab Sam  ;D

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Wow Sam - you're a professional!!   ;D :hug:

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Well done Sam

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Just wanted to blow my own little trumpet and say my begging and cajoling is going VERY well this year .... we have some WONDERFUL new corporate sponsors who have donated some fab items. 

Don't want to give too much away but just a little sneaky taster of some of the sponsors so far:

Pet Remedy, Simon's Cat, Seahorse Atlantic, Greenfields Care, Natures Menu, Toplife Formula .. + lots more!!

So start saving your pennies folks and lets make this year's auction one to remember  ;)
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Goooooooooooooo Gill hope you break some arms  ;D ;D

You can pester me Lau by pm please  ;D ;D

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Going to,a cat show on Saturday for a couple of hours, all being well.
Will see if I can do any persuading for auction items !

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Who do i pester to discuss the goodies i have to auction? I've only ever been a bidder before!

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count me in  ;)
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Great choice of cause!! :)




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You are so kind  :innocent:

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I'll forgive you  ;)
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Yes of course you are  Sam, Sorry  ;D

I think I also said that Susanne would say more about the postage and meant Helen, sorry again  :Crazy:

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Staff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We dont have any yet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we are not that far forward  :rofl: :rofl:

I'm staff Gill  :innocent:
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ooh looking forward to this already!!

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Afraid the courier companies are putting their prices up too and even the Purrs shop has stopped using them!

Its so bloomin sad.

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you are confusing me.... the wind is cold today and there is auction talk!
maybe sellers should consider other postal companies? we have switched to a courier for our ebay items. there are some courier companies that work out much cheaper than the PO. probably worth looking at nearer the time?
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Yay!! This is absolutely amazing news... thank you everyone so, so much  :thanks:

To start the foundation from scratch less than a year ago, and to have so much support is just fantastic! I'm very excited!!

I'll also get some bits from our business for auction items, too. We have lots of cat and kitten bits.

Thank you everyone  :hug:

Liz xx

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yay! I have started to accumulate a small item for auction this year - should be easy to post and inexpensive, but if we have any quilters here, keep and eye out for my offer!! ;)

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I quite enjoyed it Gill.  :briggin:

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Thank you Louise, most appreciated, you did a great job last year  :hug: :hug:

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You can count me in as staff if I am around on the chosen dates.

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Staff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We dont have any yet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we are not that far forward  :rofl: :rofl:

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Already have a box of goodies ready to auction.  ;) :yesss:

Agreed the postage situation needed to be looked at, and this seems a sensible proposition, the "sellers" know they need to bear this cost in mind when choosing their items.

To the staff, thank you in advance.  :thanks: Where's my camera?  ;D

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OK People of Purrs we are doing things a little different this year!

First the announcement of the place that the money is going to.............FERAL AND STRAY FOUNDATION run by Marleymoo aka Liz  ;D ;D ;D ;D

We think that the money will help so much and that the job Liz is doing is amazing  ;D

This of course applies to all rescues and wish we could have many other big fund raising thing for all of you in a year, we already have planned who will get the money in 2014!

Next and Susanne and/or Tan will be posting more on this.................the changes in postal rates in Aug have threatened to kill off our precious auction, so a change to how the P&P will work has been made.

This year only the auctioneers will pay the P&P so we hope that this will bring in more and bigger bids from those of you playing in our auction  :innocent:

So the last bit of this message from me is , please save some stunning things for the auction, small and flatish will be cheaper to send so beare in mind the new horrific postal rates,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Susanne will tell you all about this.

Purrs Auction 2013 GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  :evillaugh: :evillaugh:

 


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