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What is the Pledge An Auction?

TARGA is proud to announce that our involvement in GaryCon 2 is more than just moral support and mutual interest. Gary Con 2's registrations go to the Gygax Family Memorial (run by Gary's children)in support of future cons. Any extra beyond funding the cons will go to the Gygax Family Memorial for use in funding a memorial statue in honor of Gary. TARGA's mission of supporting old school gaming fits right alongside of this and we want to help! Not all of us can go to Gary Con and even if we could, the fundraising auction there is being kept low key to keep the focus on gaming. However, there's no reason we can't hold a virtual auction, and so TARGA is organizing the 2010 "Pledge an Auction for Gary" drive, to start on January 25th!

More information on the Gygax Family Memorial and the proposed statue can be found here.

Update - 3/3 - Thank you! We've reached a goal of $300.00 collected to give to the GaryCon/Gygax Family Memorial! We have ten days left in our auction drive, won't you help?

How Does the Pledge An Auction Work?

Here's how it works. You have a great old school item that you'd like to auction off, say on Ebay. You pledge a portion of the proceeds for TARGA to collect. You hold the auction, you sell the item, you donate the pledged portion, using our Paypal account. TARGA will advertise all auctions on this page as well as announce them in our blog and forums. Once we reach the auction deadline of March 15th, we'll announce a final total of all donations and then present the full donation amount to Luke at Gary Con 2, as part of TARGA's International Traditional Gaming Week 2010.

It doesn't have to be a huge amount, every little bit helps, and we want to see more Gary Cons in the future as well as the memorial statue fund grow.

Auction Blurb

While this is completley optional, we're really appreciate it if you would put the following HTML snippet in your auction description, if you are using an online auction:

This auction is being held as part of the <strong>TARGA Pledge-An-Auction 2010</strong>, a fundraising effort for the Gygax Family Memorial in support of Gary Con, a convention held in honor of the late Gary Gygax, co-author of Dungeons & Dragons. A portion (or all) of the proceeds of this auction have been pledged. If you'd like to learn more or see other auctions that feature collectors/old school RPG items, please visit the <a href="http://www.traditionalgaming.org/targa-pledge-an-auction-2010.html">TARGA Pledge-An-Auction 2010 page.</a> Thank you!

How to Donate

To donate a portion (or all) of your auction proceeds, or to make a contribution to our Gygax fundraiser, please use the Paypal button below, which will go to the TARGA Paypal donation form:

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