Advice?

[hatman]

You heard of save_dave?

The story goes like this (and I'm trusting that it's true, even though I don't know anyone directly involved): Dave is a cool guy. Dave has a cool house. Dave hosts cool get-togethers in his cool house. Dave was about to lose his house. Dave's friends secretly set up a fundraiser, auctioning stuff off and soliciting donations. It was a rousing success. They got enough money to save Dave's house and give him something of a buffer against future needs. There was much rejoicing.

All to the good. It's great. It's a touching story and I'm really glad that it had a happy ending.

(It even seems to have spun off a sequel, rescue_rowan.)

Thing is that I won one of those auctions. It seemed cool. Winner gets something nifty and handmade by mail once a month for three months. The donor's LJ (7rouble) seems to have been set up purely for the auction, but the auction organizer (popelizbet) personally vouched for her. She was even introduced in the video where they told Dave.

Now, 7rouble and I exchanged a couple of PMs after the auction. I gave her my address and proof of payment and told her that I'd be out of town for a couple of weeks (in case she got started quickly).

And then... nothing.

So, fine. I waited. There was no specific timeframe mentioned and probably other stuff going on and it does take time to make stuff. No rush.

Eventually, I sent a polite little PM to check in. Our mail sometimes gets misdelivered to a street on the other side of town with a vaguely similar name. But... no response.

Well, her journal was set up just for the auction. There's only one post, and it's pretty much blank. So I sent a PM to popelizbet asking if she had any suggestions, knew what was up, or had a better way of making contact. That was a week ago. And... no response. (Although she did mention in her journal a couple of weeks ago that she was busy with RL stuff.)

I don't know. Dave's house was saved, and that's the important bit. But I won the auction and paid for the nifty prize and now... nothing. What do I do? Suggestions, anyone?

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

I saw this on DW:latest. There was someone separate collecting the money through PayPal. Have you tried emailing her?

I do not know Dave. I was not an organizer of this event. However, I bid and got my two items: one of which was wonderful and the other was touted as "homemade" but was actually from a box mix. Mixed results.

[hatman]

Thanks for stopping by.

Contacting the PayPal address is a good thought. I was thinking it belonged to popelizbet, but now that I look at it, it doesn't seem to be. I'll give it a shot.

Glad you got something wonderful out of it. With any luck, so will I. Eventually...

Thanks again. :)

[ksarasara.livejournal.com]

Was there anyone else who seemed to be on the organizing side of things that you might be able to ask? Do you have posting permissions in the save dave comm? Might be worth it to post a message there and just ask a friendly question. Good luck.

[pgwfolc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was popelizbet. Don't think I have posting privs. Did try emailing the paypal donation addy. Nothing there yet, either. So... I dunno.