To wonder where my donated item went?

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There is a local charity that does great work. They had a fundraiser planned for today and we’re asking for raffle items. I sent the organiser a photo of a brand new items that was appropriate to their audience that I was willing to donate if they wanted it. It was worth about £200. He said yes, great, they’d appreciate it.
fundraiser event was today. Someone posted a video of a walk through of the raffle items and I didn’t see my item there.
I’ve just watched a replay of the live video of all the tickets being drawn and my donation wasn’t there. I’m not sure if IBU to be a bit peeved.
Im not sure if I should message asking what happened to the item I donated or just take the attitude I was willing to donate it so it shouldn’t matter what happened to it.

Unless there’s a signature and edition number I’m missing, sadly have to concur. You may have been told it was an expensive professional framing job when you bought it but you can buy those posters framed all over the place for under £30. When you told the man at the charity on the phone you had a framed limited edition he probably then didn’t have the heart to break it to you that it was just an old poster and didn’t include it for raffle, hoping you wouldn’t watch the live auction eager to see your item.

OP, I think the point AdobeWanKenobi was making is that, given the poster is not rare or particularly valuable, the organisers may have decided that they didn't wish to offer it as a raffle prize after all. You may have paid £200 for it as a charitable donation but it is available on Etsy/Ebay and probably other places for about £25. I know you said there were raffle prizes of lesser value than yours but if you indicated that your item was worth about £200 and it then turned out not to be, they may just have decided not to include it in the raffle. Having said that, they could have stuck it in the silent auction, someone similar to you might have been willing to pay a higher than retail value for it in order to show support.

You put that so much more succinctly than I did, thank you.

@AdobeWanKenobi
You put that so much more succinctly than I did, thank you.

That's a first for me,I'm more usually known for wittering on I think! 😀

At first glance I thought no wonder you didn't want that hanging in your house, its fecking huge! Then I realised it was a mirror behind it and not a doorway. Doh.

Eventhough you paid 200 for it
It looks like it was worth about 20 op

Maybe that's why they didn't use it in the raffle?

But I can understand you feel miffed about it.

Ah yikes, sorry OP but I agree with this.

Now that I've seen a photo of the item, I wouldn't follow up to see what happened. You described it in your OP as being "worth around £200" but like PP have said, it's probably only worth £20-30 tops. And that's accounting for the frame. I'd guess the organisers didn't want to offend you but it's not the £200 item they were led to believe they'd be receiving.

You tried to do a nice thing, that's what matters. And as a bonus, you got an awkward, bulky item out of your house. I would take the win and let things lie.

Ermmm…. I don’t recall saying I’d been told it was an expensive framing job, nor do I remember saying I’d told the event organiser it was a framed limited edition.
Because it didn’t happen 🙄

I said the frame was worth more than a tenner, and it is. Where I am, anyway.

I did not offer a limited edition. I told him exactly where and how I got it. Chances are he’d probably seen it himself anyway. Just be be sure, I sent him a photo and he said they’d happily raffle it. Raffle tickets were probably pretty cheap so someone could have quite likely taken it home for a few quid if they liked it. Items were raffled off, not auctioned off so people probably bought a book of tickets for £10/£20 whatever and just put the tickets in the box next to the item they wanted a chance of winning. The group makes money on the tickets sales, not the individual item.
Yes, I was wrong to say it was worth £200. I paid over the odds to support a charity, as I said before.

In Canada supermarkets have framed pictures like that as prizes for raffles. They are often marked up as being worth $500. I don't think they are worth anything like that, the quality of the both the picture and frame are usually quite poor, but they are very popular and always raise a fair bit

This framed picture has been an albatross round your neck for 3 years, with you having to hide it and worry about DH finding it.

Celebrate your freedom now that it’s gone

I’m at the point now that I don’t care what happened to it, I don’t have to concern myself with it any more 😁

Oh gosh, people are being needlessly nasty about this picture now, I bet the op wishes she didn't share the picture. The point is that op donated an item to be raffled and it wasn't. That hasn't really changed.
I hope you get an answer off them op.

That is very distinctive. I would definitely ask. Its not really a suitable raffle prize imo as its quite niche but perhaps they sold it on

Thank you @DrHousecuredme

@potatowhale i asked the organiser first and even sent a photo and he said yes, he’d want to raffle it. It wasn’t a random donation

I would have gone to the local paper too. Disgusting.

Then they've theifed it

Maybe no one put a ticket in the box beside your item so they took it away?

Don't raffle/charity stall organisers sometimes allow volunteers to put in a fair bid for an item before it's included in the raffle/sale? That might be a possibility rather than assuming they have stolen it.

In all my umpteen years on mn, this is one of the most interesting threads ive read. Thanks op!!
Isnt it funny how we all love a mystery

I'd want to know. Update pls!

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I wonder if because it’s quite a unique item and you asked for anonymity, that they thought you wanted the item to not be publicly shared so they skipped it out of the video?
Incase it was an unwanted gift to you and you didn’t want anybody to know you’d given it away.

Interesting. I saw this on eBay. £30 for the poster but goes up to £200 to have it mounted and framed. So OP wasn't far off anyway.

I was really outraged at the idea of a £200ish value item being donated and not raffled.

But it's a framed motorbike poster! 🤦
Yes it still should be raffle or auctioned or something to benefit the charity but it's not the sort of item I'd expect as a big ticket raffle prize. I suspect the charity have thought the same and it will be used in another way e.g. a separate specific raffle or a tombola prize or something.

Good!

I've got a couple of things that I was supposed to give away but didn't due to laziness, except I told DH I had given them away so he didn't have to.

I dread the day he comes across them in the corner of the attic