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It's easy to donate 10-100% of your auction items to African Conservation Fund when you sell on eBay. The organization that manages the eBay Giving Works program is called MissionFish.org. African Conservation Fund is a registered member of MissionFish and of eBay Giving Works. Here are the basics. Links to more information are located at the bottom of this page. All you need to get started is an eBay seller account. If you've never sold on eBay before, it's actually a lot of fun as well as easy, even for beginners. Try it - and help support conservation!  Start selling on eBaySign into your eBay account and and click sell to list an item, just like normal.  Choose to donateOn the "Pictures & Details" area, choose "Donate a percentage of sale" to launch the eBay Giving Works feature.  Select African Conservation Fund as your nonprofit of choice, and select a donation percentageYou will find us in the MissionFish directory. If you're a new eBay Giving Works user, you'll have to complete a one-time registration with MissionFish before you finish. Then choose how much of your final sale price (10%-100%) you would like to donate. (Think big!) There is a $5 minimum donation amount (the literature might still say $10, but this was just reduced in September.)  Finish your listingOnce you select African Conservation Fund to benefit from your listing, review your listing details and submit it as usual. What happens next? When your item goes live on eBay, they will let the us know that you will be making a donation to us if your item sells. Once you find a buyer, complete your transaction with them as usual. Later, MissionFish will collect your donation, distribute it to us, and send you a tax receipt for your contribution. About fees When you list an item on eBay, you're charged an Insertion Fee. If the item sells, you are also charged a Final Value Fee. The total cost of selling an item is the Insertion Fee plus the Final Value Fee. When you elect to donate an item through Giving Works, after the item sells, eBay will credit the Insertion and Final Value Fees back to the seller, equal to the percentage of the final sale price that the seller had elected to donate. So if you donate 100%, there is no fee. However, since MissionFish (who manages all this) is a nonprofit, they keep a small part of each donation processed to offset bank fees and other expenses. Their share is based on the size of the donation: the percentage gets smaller as the donation gets bigger; and they never take more than 20% of any donation. The average share is roughly 10%. To get started, visit the MissionFish.org page for sellers here: http://www.missionfish.org/ForSellers/forsellers.jsp Or if you already know your way around, go directly to www.ebay.com and start helping us out today! Once we have live auctions supporting African Conservation Fund, you can visit our MissionFish page to see them - and perhaps buy something to support us! Click on the logo below.
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Need to make room in the garage for your car this winter? Tired of all that junk in the spare bedroom? Sell it on eBay through the eBay Giving Works program and you can donate all or part of the proceeds to African Conservation Fund. It's an easy and fun way to help us raise funds for wildlife conservation and community programs in east Africa - and it's tax-deductible.
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