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Introduction - All About help_japan!

HELP JAPAN INTRODUCTION POST 

This community was created on 11 March 2011, to raise funds to assist Japan after being hit by both an earthquake and a tsunami. It is a multi-fandom, multi-media auction with the intention of uniting everyone with the one cause: to help Japan.

If you'd like to participate, please familiarize yourself with the community by reading the FAQ. Your moderators are: [info]ilovetakahana, [info]hesselives & [info]curve.

QUICK LINKS: Shortcuts to the offer posts are below. These, and other important links (such as the Donation Confirmation Post  and detailed instructions for making and confirming your donations) are located in the sidebar of the auction community front page.

To place your item or service up for auction, add an offer to the appropriate post. Specific criteria for each item category is communicated in the individual auction posts. To bid on an item, reply to the item's thread.


BROWSING THROUGH OFFERS: To view items in a more easily sorted format, please visit our Delicious archive where they are being bookmarked. There, they are tagged by category, type/subcategory and fandom (or a combination). Volunteers are still actively adding all offers to Delicious - if you'd like to help, please contact [info]mementis for details.

REQUESTS: If you're looking for a particular kind of item and can't find it on offer, place a comment in our Requests post! Note that requests are also bookmarked at our Delicious archive.

Please visit the auction community's front page for the latest announcements and more information.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions, and happy bidding! :D 

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[info]theantimodel

March 16 2011, 05:16:47 UTC 1 year ago

Hey mods! Thanks for ALL of your hard work on this auction! I'm really excited about it!

I was searching through the delicious and noticed that my offer is titled incorrectly. It ought to be Northern California in a Box not North Carolina.

I don't know how to link to the entry, but it's the first result in this search:

http://www.delicious.com/search?p=san+francisco&chk=&context=userposts|help_japan&fr=del_icio_us&lc=0

[info]mementis

March 16 2011, 06:08:26 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing us right to it! Sorry for the mistake, it should be fixed now :)

[info]theantimodel

1 year ago

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[info]mementis

1 year ago

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[info]curve

March 16 2011, 18:33:12 UTC 1 year ago

I'm sorry! That was my fault. Thanks for point it out! :)

[info]theantimodel

1 year ago

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[info]malnpudl

March 16 2011, 05:50:05 UTC 1 year ago

You are CRAZY hard-working and CRAZY awesome mods! *salutes you all and showers you with shiny little hearts that stick to everything and get in your hair and you find them in the clothes dryer for the next three weeks and oh never mind you get the idea*

♥ ♥ ♥

[info]hesselives

March 16 2011, 06:00:28 UTC 1 year ago

<3 <3 thanks to everyone who is supporting us with compassion and enthusiasm. we're so lucky to have such a great team of volunteers working around the clock. :)

[info]maichan

March 16 2011, 06:24:51 UTC 1 year ago

First off, thank you to all the mods for doing such an awesome job! I looked through the FAQs and comments, but didn't see this covered. I was wondering if we made donations now (while the auctions are still ongoing), if we could still use that amount towards any potential winning bids? I ask because many organizations could use immediate assistance and getting them the money now instead of at the end of the month could actually make a difference.

[info]hesselives

March 16 2011, 06:32:44 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  March 16 2011, 06:34:47 UTC

yes, this is perfectly fine. :) please ensure that the amount on the receipt(s) either matches or exceeds the winning donation amount(s). if you are making one lump-sum donation with the intention to make multiple bids, please make sure that all offerers are aware and that you provide to them a breakdown of your lump-sum donation after the end of the auction.

we'll be sure to include this in the FAQ shortly. thanks!

[info]maichan

March 16 2011, 06:37:45 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks so much for the clarification! You might want to also edit the donation confirmation instructions so it doesn't specify restricted dates:

If you didn't use that donation receipt as confirmation for something else, it will count as long as you donated between 26-31 March.

[info]hesselives

1 year ago

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[info]marionetteblue3

March 16 2011, 07:43:51 UTC 1 year ago

thank you for your work.

my heart breaks for all those suffering in japan.

Anonymous

March 16 2011, 18:08:25 UTC 1 year ago

A fantastic idea, only, having been new to this site, was there anything similar for the nation of Haiti or New Zealand in their time of peril?

[info]megalomaniageek

March 16 2011, 18:30:56 UTC 1 year ago

Yes, there was:
QLD flood auction - http://community.livejournal.com/qldfloodauction/
Help Haiti - http://community.livejournal.com/help_haiti/
There was also Help Chile - http://community.livejournal.com/help_chile/

[info]hothobbit

March 16 2011, 22:39:59 UTC 1 year ago

Including to the list above, there was also [info]help_nz and [info]help_pakistan

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[info]hesselives

March 17 2011, 06:12:14 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  March 17 2011, 07:36:47 UTC

Re: Offering Banners

thank you so much! we'll be sure to update the banner & icons post accordingly. :)

[edit]: my apologies regarding timetable confusion: the auction is closed to new offers on March 26 6:00 AM GMT+8, and bidding closes on March 31 6:00 AM GMT+8. if you wouldn't mind revising the banners, we'd really appreciate it.

[info]e_transitions

March 18 2011, 20:55:16 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Offering Banners

Oh no! Sorry about that! Fixed them:

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

[info]hesselives

1 year ago

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[info]genickph

March 18 2011, 05:33:34 UTC 1 year ago

hi im having a problem accessing the site i cant open the link... im interested in bidding :) thank you :)

[info]hesselives

March 18 2011, 06:14:26 UTC 1 year ago

hi! sorry, could you please clarify which part of the community you're trying to access? if you wish to bid, simply joining the community should enable you to do so freely. :)

[info]kazzoh

March 18 2011, 23:51:12 UTC 1 year ago

Listing on Delicious

Hi there, I posted an offer to write a fanfic story on 16 March and when I checked today, there's still no listing on Delicious.

I've never done this kind of thing before and I don't have very much experience of using Livejournal - did I do something wrong?

[info]curve

March 19 2011, 00:16:35 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Listing on Delicious

Nope - nothing is wrong unless a mod has directly addressed your comment. There is just a massive amount of auctions going up and we cannot keep up with bookmarking as quickly as the auctions come in.

We're almost all caught up, and it should be up in a couple days at the latest.

[info]kazzoh

March 19 2011, 08:25:18 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Listing on Delicious

Okay, Thanks :)

[info]diana_spn

March 19 2011, 13:39:36 UTC 1 year ago

Heal Japan!!!

Hello everyone!!
We live far from Japan, but it doesn't can be a problem for those who want to help!! This gestion is to show how much we care about our brothers and sister there!! If you can, please help!! If you can't, pray for them!! I believe by praying it's a beautiful, wonderful help!! God bless you guys here and the guys there!!

:DDD

[info]x_dark_siren_x

March 22 2011, 22:54:49 UTC 1 year ago

Hey mods, sorry to be a pain, but I was wondering what the definite time was for closing bids? I've seen a few different times, and I'm not sure if it's just me being stupid about reading timezones (which is the most likely option). /o\

[info]hesselives

March 23 2011, 03:28:40 UTC 1 year ago

hi! we apologize for any confusion we might've caused. the FAQ has been updated to reflect the exact time for end of auction. hope that helps! let us know if you have any further questions. :)

[info]x_dark_siren_x

1 year ago

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[info]autocadere

March 23 2011, 16:34:20 UTC 1 year ago

Hey sorry, but I have another question!

I just realised that I have something else to offer up for auction - a cosplay accessory that hasn't been used before. Is it too late to put up on auction? I remember reading somewhere that there'll be a lightning round, but does that include new posts? Thanks!

[info]hesselives

March 23 2011, 16:51:01 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  March 23 2011, 16:51:16 UTC

hi! what you can do is either create a new offer (under the Interesting Stuff overflow post), or amend your original offer by listing the accessory in a new comment within the same thread.

it is not yet confirmed whether we will be having future auction/lightning rounds, but we will definitely let everyone know when and if it is. :)
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