Efforts to use eBay charity auctions to sell Zanfirico marbles for community food programs enter week 4 with victories at its back and obvious defeat ahead.

3 of the 21 Zanfirico marbles that will be auctioned next week in benefit of the Houston Food Bank.

I am a mess. I have no problems admitting that. Pertinent here because this is my website (thank you) and also because everything I touch will also continue to be a mess as long as I am. Around here, creativity makes prescriptions and symptoms difficult to differentiate. This charity auction program is a great example.

It isn’t easy to get something like this going. I am fortunate to have had the success I have. Unless I discover a way to promote these auctions to new buyers, sales numbers are going to plummet.

Reasonably speaking, it’s been a fairly strong three weeks for this charity auction program. When it first stated (first auction closed August 1st), this idea was blessed to find a few supportive people immediately.

The passion of those founding individuals continues creating magic today.

Today’s auction will close at $79, which is fantastic. I would be incredibly lucky to maintain numbers like $79. The reality is that my luck (base level generosity of the universe I can reach) is running out. The next 4 days of auctions are dead and not in an interesting way.

On the one hand, there is clear victory. On the other hand, there is clearly a real world that is going to kill me.

The problem is I lack communication value. I have no audience.

The problem with that problem is that as a human, I’m absolutely done trying for an audience. I have no hope of an audience.

How to solve this problem, I don’t know.

I do know that the craftsman I want to be auctions finished work for community food programs. And so I’m doing that.

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