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...online auction that commenced yesterday, Charity Folks, an Internet-based auctioneering company currently working with DoubleTake, is offering up 32 lots for online bidders until June 15. Charity Folks’ website, www.charityfolks.com, features the high-profile roster of celebrity participants—which includes a behind-the-scenes evening spent on the set of The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, a day at the home of the Kennedys and a tour of ABC News with Diane Sawyer—and allows registered users to cast online bids...
...creators of DoubleTake decided to contact Charity Folks after the magazine’s creators saw an auction that Charity Folks handled for Chevy Chase, and approached the company to begin talks about raising funds for the magazine’s re-launch, planned for the fall. Holzman said that the magazine’s mission and prospects convinced them to take on the project...
...order to find willing celebrity participants for the auction, Holzman said they drew from Coles’ long list of friends and supporters...
DoubleTake hopes that the online auction will generate $100,000. It will hold a larger auction in the fall—with roughly 150 lots—as it works towards its goal of $2.5 million, the projected amount needed for the re-launch...
...black market for a rare Harvard commodity—Commencement tickets—has moved beyond open e-mail list exchanges, as at least two passes were advertised on the online auction site eBay, though both have since vanished...