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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2975462" data-attributes="member: 2810">Lots of reasons, probably.  Visibility, for one.  I stumbled upon them by accident.  I went back and checked and saw a notice on the front page, but my bookmark takes me right to the forums, so I'd have missed it there.  Maybe a sticky top-side in the General forum would help, or a different .sig banner or avatar specifically for the fundraiser.I've bid on a couple, but honestly, after $250 for airfaire and $1000 for hotel, plus food, plus wanting to spend some money on neato things (like Silk Road, which I'm looking forward to), I don't feel like going overboard to attend a cocktail party.  I voted for the Ennies, I contributed a story for the fundraiser last year (and bought a copy of the hardcopy and .PDF of the collection), and I'm working the booth Thursday morning.  I think the Ennies are important, but there's a limit to what I can contribute financially.Also, given the large number of 'prestige' releases recently and in the near future, I expect a lot of people are in the 'Gee, $100 for Ptolus, or $100 for the Ennies'.And of course, it is ebay, where sniping is the norm <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>