CHARITY BIDDING THREAD: Golden State Warriors Opening Night 2009-2010 Tickets... 8 Rows Up!

by Atma Brother ONE on Oct 26, 2009 4:06 PM PDT in Contests

Bidding Has Ended!

UPDATE (4:03pm): Longtime GSoMer Rich Twu of Dream League fame (represent!) won with the auction equivalent of a sweet last second jumper. Congrats! We'll be sending $200 to the Oakland Parks & Recreation department thanks to Rich.

We're always looking for fresh and innovative ways to use GSoM as a vehicle to empower our local Bay Area communities. If you have any ideas definitely feel free to drop us a line.

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UPDATE (11:13am): The bidding is currently at $190 with about 1.25 hrs remaining. Don't miss out on your chance to catch opening night 8 rows up AND donate to your favorite charity!

Originally posted Oct 12, 2009 3:45 AM PDT

As you all know opening night against the Houston Rockets is GSoM Night 7 [order tickets online] . And as you all know we'll be rocking the flyest practice jerseys ever to grace the hardwood. We'll also be swishing our free throws like Anthony Morrow from downtown.

While Allen Iverson talks about PRACTICE?!, we talk about PRACTICE JERSEYS! around these parts.

But what you didn't know is that you can score the GSoM season ticket pair for opening night AND make a donation to your favorite charity.

Section 107 - Row 8 - Seats 5 and 6

The golden view from the GSoM seats... 8 rows up!

All of the details after the jump!

To place a bid on these two lower bowl tickets (Section 107 - Row 8 - Seats 5 and 6) post a comment with:

1) Your bid amount (minimum increase on previous bid $10)

2) The charity you would like us to donate your bid to

Note:

Bidding starts at the combined face value of the tickets $170.00.
You must raise the previous bid by $10.
Serious bidders only. You must be able to actually pay the amount you bid. In the unanticipated case that the winning bidder for whatever reason cannot make the payment, the 2nd place bidder (and so on down the list as necessary) will be named the winner.
You must be 18 or over to place a bid.
We would strongly prefer if the charity you chose was not political, ethnic or religious-based.
Bidding ends Monday October 26th 12:30pm PST- Please email us at goldenstwarriors@gmail.com by that Monday night 11pm PST to coordinate ticket and donation transfer

We've held many ticket giveaway contests and such in the past here at GSoM, but this is the first one of this nature that we've ever done. Please bear with us through any difficulties as this is somewhat of an experiment for us.

Bidding too high for you? Have no fear. Join your fiends from the GSoM community in the people's section by grabbing some GSoM Night 7 tickets!

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Bid #0

1) $170 (minimum increase on next bid $10)

2) Great charity

Golden State of Mind :: Always keeping it... "Unstoppable Baby!"

by Atma Brother ONE on Oct 12, 2009 7:35 AM PDT reply actions

Bid #1

1) $180

2) which charity do the warriors girls visit in uniform? j/k TBD on 10/26/09

by warriorsvictim on Oct 12, 2009 4:14 PM PDT reply actions

Bid #2

1) $190
2) Donorschoose.org

by AndrewGB on Oct 12, 2009 7:13 PM PDT reply actions

Atma Bro 1

Not a bid, I already have good seats but after reading this piece I had a thought.

Great idea but to help avoid conflict, in the future you may want to pick a charity and announce ahead of time where the money goes to. Something Oakland based would be good, community outreach or SPCA of something like that. Another group I belong to does this with real good success.

Good luck with this and future charity events.

This house is full of m, m, madness!
This house is full of m, m, mistakes!

by qin on Oct 16, 2009 11:50 AM PDT reply actions

Appreciate the feedback

Thanks for the thoughts qin. We can try picking a charity next time. I wanted to leave it open this time around to see if that would get more folks interested since they’d have more control of where their donation would go.

As I noted above this is somewhat of an experiment for us and we’re learning how to make these sort of efforts more fruitful- with your and everyone else’s feedback we’ll get where we want to be soon enough.

Golden State of Mind :: Always keeping it... "Unstoppable Baby!"

by Atma Brother ONE on Oct 19, 2009 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions

If I bid can it go to the Cohan Foundation?

Just kidding, but this is really cool though. I’m surprised I haven’t seen something like this more often.

Chris Cohan and Robert Rowell? Oh no hide the children!

by Nuck Chorris on Oct 26, 2009 11:42 AM PDT reply actions

Bid #3

1) $200
2) Oakland Parks & Recreation Department

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by Poor Man's Commish on Oct 26, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Warriors Tickets Charity Auctions - game 2, Nov 4th and game 4, Nov 9th

Benefits the nonprofit Family Violence Law Center. Starting bid at half of tickets value!
Game 2 Nov 4th vs. Grizzlies, auction ends 7pm Wednesday…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290360333861

Game 4 Nov 9th vs. Timberwolves , auction ends 10pm Friday…
http://cgi.ebay.com/Warriors-vs-Minnesota-Timberwolves-NBA-Tickets-11-9-09_W0QQitemZ290360339742

I tried using the email link to reach the Forum admin, but it did not work— so If you can give this worthy cause it’s own blog entry, that would be helpful. Thanks!

by RichSayers on Oct 27, 2009 1:34 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs