MR Charity Auction Goes Online.

Forget e-bay (just for a while?) - this year’s auction for the UK research workers’ charity, the MRBA, is being held online. Lots range from a new Apple iPod nano and a 'framed painting of a nude torso' to a week in a holiday home in Port Charles Coromandel, New Zealand. Bidding stays open until 2pm on Friday 24th March.
The Market Research Benevolent Association exists to help those in need who work or have worked in market research in any capacity, whether as researchers, interviewers, or office staff, as employees or independents, and whether members of the UK’s Market Research Society or not.
The auction is sponsored by Pulse Train and can be accessed via the MRBA site at http://www.mrba.org.uk/ (follow the link to the on-line Auction) or directly via the rather less memorable address http://70.86.232.98/~mrba/
Once you have given all your details, wait for the confirmation e-mail and follow the instructions to ensure that your registration is completed - then you can start bidding. If, for some reason, you do not get a confirmation e-mail (perhaps your anti-spam system has eaten it?) just email mrba@patmolloy.net from the e-mail address you are trying to register and the team will attempt to manually enable your registration.
Text or telephone 07710 493280 in the hour and a half after the close to check your bids and/or make further bids. Please note that merely sending a text (sms) message does not guarantee your bid has been received - it must be acknowledged. People attending the Research 2006 conference will be able to bid personally up until 3.30pm when the Auction will close and the lucky winners will be notified.
If you like what you see and wish you had donated something, it’s not too late – contact the organisers and help make more money for the MRBA.
The MRBA wishes to thank all those who have donated and given such an interesting variety of lots.
FOR THE FULL AND UP TO DATE LIST OF UK AUCTIONS VISIT THE FREE NEWSLETTER AT: http://www.uk-government-auctions.co.uk/template.html