Origins of YDC

[NuttyKrafts]

You all know by now that I'm quite nosey and like to know everything about everything - well here's a question for the old timers.
what I want to know today is.......

How did YDC start? Who had the original idea? If we're on 103 now, it must have been going for 9 or 10 years?

Thanks in advance for your replies - going out to buy food now as supplies non existent here at the nutty house

[suesjools]

Good questions, am a bit curious myself.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[damian_steele]

As with so many other frequently asked questions, Astral has it covered in his excellent Knowledge Base.
The answer to this question can be read HERE.

[cornishmaid1961]

This is an old quote from Wikipedia. The YDC is now run by Vonz and the announcement thread has now moved from the kitchen table to the charity forum.


The history of YDC

The YDC charity auctions were started back in 2003 by YorkiesAuctions (he also started the monthly charity auctions on ebay uk several years before too). The original name of the monthly charity auctions was Yorkies Daft Competition the reason being that forum members competed against each other to raise the largest amount for charity each month and Yorkie came up with the idea and ran the competition. When Yorkie had to stop running the YDC in late 2006 due to family and work commitments the name of the auctions were changed to Your Donation Counts. The YDC is currently run by Shezz.
The YDC is open to all Ebid members and is a fun way to raise money for charity. YDC announcements can be found on eBID's Kitchen Table forum, and forum members are always happy to help new members wishing to take part in YDC. Each month the winner of YDC gets to nominate the following YDC's featured charity. Members may support the featured charity or support a charity of their own choice.

[Maelbrigda]

thank you damian that was interesting

[NuttyKrafts]

Thank you Damien and Becky, I didn't think to look at Astral's knowledge base for that.

[suesjools]

Thank you Damien and Becky, I didn't think to look at Astral's knowledge base for that.

Me either, thanks Damian and Becky.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[Salomina27]

thats enlightened me too! Thanks

[Anniemcc2]

This might help as well - from Yorkie who started it all:

http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...ts-and-history

[moonwitch]

Thought I would bump this up for the newbies

I also wanted to find this thread so I can add the info to my new website