“Oh, and I'm Running the Auction Myself”

Yesterday I said:

Looks like I'm going with the last option, but it still means the items won't be available for a couple of days because of logistics with getting the items listed by someone at the PMC under their own eBay account.

Today I changed my mind. Need to run this auction myself, nothing else made sense. So, I wrote to every one of the donors and let them know I was only going to donate 95% of the proceeds to the PMC, and the other 5% could cover my costs (ebay's fees).

They didn't let me down. I haven't heard back from all of them, but those who have written back have been fully supportive. (Many were surprised that I only went with 95% insteadf of 90, but I think that will be enough.)