Recently, Brenda Johnson of Ferretfarm generously auctioned a special one-of-a-kind tee shirt to benefit the International Ferret Congress' Emergency Love Fund and ferret victims of Katrina. The auction went through eBay's prescribed Mission Fish organization, set up to insure that proceeds for items auctioned to benefit charities actually went to the charities. After the auction ended, Brenda tried to use the prescribed method to send payment to the IFC, but the Mission Fish system would not let her do it. She finally just sent full payment directly to the IFC's Paypal account. I recently discovered that several other people have listed items to benefit the IFC, but that we were not notified of by Mission Fish as we should have been. Brenda tried to auction some additional shirts to benefit. At least two people purchased shirts and Brenda has already sent payment to the IFC. Unfortunately, since Brenda did not go through Mission Fish this time, eBay has removed her auction and informed the purchasers that her auction was illegal. I have sent an email to Mission Fish about the problems we are having with their system, but have not received a response yet. If you wish to get your payment back, it will be paid by the IFC, since we already have your money. Please contact me if you have any questions. Linda Iroff International Ferret Congress http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5020]