WakeWorld Auctions For Brad, Matt and TFT - LIVE NOW!!

It's that time of the year! Are you ready for some deals on wake gear?? We are gathering wake goodies for our 10th Annual WakeWorld Charity Auctions. We've raised over $67,000 in past years and we're looking to add to that total with your help. Last year alone we were able to donate over $10,000 worth of toys and cash to Toys for Tots (http://tinyurl.com/k3sqgl8).

Normally, we donate all profits from our annual fundraiser to the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program. However, this year the wakesports community has incurred some serious tragedies to two riders; Brad Smeele (paralysis) and Matt Manzari (electrocution/burns). Therefore, we’re going to split the profits from this year’s fundraiser three ways with a third each going to Brad and Matt’s recovery funds and a third going to our standing commitment to Toys for Tots.

WakeWorld will again be running online auctions of donated items from companies and individuals in order to generate money to donate towards these causes. 100% Of the profits from these auctions will be split evenly between the Brad Smeele Foundation, Matt Manzari’s Recover Fund and Toys for Tots.

We need you to get the word out to your favorite wake shops and wake companies so that they'll donate some goodies to the cause. If you or your company are interested in donating something, hit me up at gobig@wakeworld.com.

Auctions will run for a week starting on Tuesday, 12/2. Be sure to get your bid in to help a great cause and get a great deal at the same time.

Before I even announced it, we had some regular donors chime in with commitments!! As the donations come in, we will list them here.

Thanks for your help!!

Hope you let Canadians bid this year!

Whenever I think of upgrading my bindings, I tell myself to wait for this time of year! Come on... O'Brien!

Uh, yeah... Jobe just dropped over 30 boards and bindings on us for the auction. I'd call that generous, but that would kind of be understating it. This is pretty freakin' incredible!!

Ok, you can click here to preview the auctions that will start tomorrow!! There will be over 75 items up for sale, so make sure you bid early and often!!

Thanks to all the great sponsors that made this possible. Please support the companies that are supporting this great cause!

• Agenda Surf
• Austin Hair
• Axis Wake Research
• Boardstop/Wakeskating.com
• Bradlee Rutledge Photography
• Cire
• CWB Board Co.
• Delkin
• Fresh Air Exhaust
• Freedom Wake Park
• Full Blown Motorsports
• Humanoid
• Jobe
• LearnWake.com
• Malibu Boats
• Mile High Wakeboarding
• Monster Tower
• Nautique
• O'Brien
• CTI
• SeaDek
• SheShreds
• Slingshot
• Taylor McCullough
• The Book
• Trevor Hansen
• Wake Worx
• Wake Makers

Hooray!!

Wow thats a great list of awesome companies!

Today's the day! When does the bidding start?

Looks like the auctions have started on eBay now 👍😃

WOW! 10 years of donations - Way to go boyz!!

94 Auctions are officially live and will run until next Tuesday. Get on and bid like crazy. Also, please spread the word via social media!!

http://www.wakeworld.com/news/featur...ts.html?page=2

Dave, can you confirm that us Canadians can par take as well!?

Unfortunately, you cannot. The only auctions you can participate in are the ones that require no shipping, which are the gift certificates to Malibu, Axis and Cire. I know it sucks, but here's why....

We go to as many people in the industry as we can to get donations. In almost all cases, those people or companies volunteer to ship the product on their dime as long as it's within the U.S. As soon as you start shipping internationally, things get complicated quick. I have to ask the donor to package, measure and weigh the product before the auctions start. I have to ask them to fill out additional paperwork as part of the shipping process. I have to ask them to front money out of their own pocket to ship until I can pay them back. We end up with discrepancies on what Ebay calculates as shipping versus what the actual shipping cost is. Once we go down that road, I'm almost guaranteed to lose that donor for the next year.

Our primary goal is to raise as much money as we can for charity and keeping donors involved year after year is a major part of doing that. I believe this is the best way to accomplish our goal.

I understand. Sucks but I understand.

On the other hand I am one of the very few that live 2 minutes from the boarder and am able to have items shipped to a shipping house in the US. I just have to go across and pick them up. Do it all the time because as you mentioned international shipping is ridiculous and a lot of times the US ships free. So if this made a difference I could participate?

Malibu/Axis links aren't working for me.

Malibu and Axis start at 1:02 and 1:04 PT. About 10 minutes from now.

I'm not sure how it works with Ebay, but I'm guessing if you have a U.S. shipping address, you should be able to include that in your account and bid.

First auctions end in two hours. Make sure you don't miss out!!