Kidswap.ca, a popular Canadian online buy/sell for children’s items, held a toy and clothing sale and online silent auction to benefit Langley Family Services this past August and September.
(PRWEB) October 13, 2005 -- Kidswap.ca, a popular Canadian online buy/sell for children’s items, held a toy and clothing sale and online silent auction to benefit Langley Family Services this past August and September.
“We wanted to donate money directly to the Family Place program, as so many of the moms who frequent the web sites enjoy the drop in program there,” said Shelly Wutke, Kidswap.ca founder. “We had a great turn out at the swap, and the participation in the silent auction was truly phenomenal.”
The kids’ swap meet was an opportunity for individuals and businesses to rent tables and sell new and used clothing and kids’ toys. A portion of each table rental fee went to support LFS’s. The Silent Auction was funded by donations from local businesses, and ran on the web site for one week with 100% of the proceeds going to LFS. The auction was in fact so successful that there is currently another auction running for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and several more lined up for the next few months.
The idea to launch a fundraiser for LFS came from several Langley mothers who frequent Kidswap.ca’s message board.
“It’s unusual for a business that promotes selling online to hold a ‘live sale’, but it was so successful we may do it again in the future,” states Wutke. “It's expanded the business in a direction that we hadn't planned on. The reaction to fundraising for charities by selling children's items has been fantastic. We're already having people sign up to sell and donate a portion to Hurricane Katrina victims.”
Kidswap Canada, a member of the Langley Chamber of Commerce and based in Aldergrove, BC, opened its “virtual” doors on December 1st, 2003. The site, created by one mom and now owned by parent company Kidswap Internet Inc., provides a person to person platform for parents to buy and sell their children's items. Coupled with Kidswap USA, the two sites now receives approximately 1.2 million hits per month, and are growing rapidly.
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