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E-mail Missive Received from Oxfam:
I just wanted to update everyone on how the auction went, and most
importantly to say THANK YOU! to all of you who helped and
contributed, especially all at SHOWstudio, who decided to give the clothes
to Oxfam in the first place.
So, the total selling price from the auction was £19,200!
I've estimated that the total costs of the auction will be around £4,000 -
this includes everyone's time, ebay/PayPal fees, delivery, packaging etc.
So a profit of £15,000, along with at least 43 international press articles
in the build up to the auction - this is fantastic.
The star item - the Björk dress - actually went down in price from £6,300
to £5,350 (after a genuine bidder retracted their bid and a rogue bidder
was pulled from the auction). It was the Bjork dress that got us a lot of
the PR - it's also Oxfam's highest ever Ebay sale! It also got over 300
watchers (getting us on the Ebay Pulse site), with 15,000 hits - so it's
broken all of our records.
Other star sellers included:
Jean Paul Gaultier leather trousers - £510
Alexander Mcqueen ballet style dress - £460
John Galliano hat - £420
Emma Thompson's dress - £312.99
The Stella McCartney boots - £275
Although all the items are bargains for those who bought them - the Matthew
Williamson dress going for £87 was probably the best deal. The most popular
designer/donor (excluding Björk) though has to be LA based Rick Owens, whose
3 donations sold for nearly £1,200!
Now comes the trick of collecting all of the money and distributing all of
the items - hopefully nearly all of the 170 customers will be happy with
their new wardrobe additions.
Thanks to all again,
cheers,
Pete
Pete Orrey
Trading Division
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