GalaCon 2018 raised a record sum of almost €27,000 for Animal Equality, exceeding even the highly successful year 2016 despite having only one auction.

Our table – run by Velvet Wings, Wilhelm Stahldecker, and me – continued the trend of underperforming the previous year, one possible reason being that fewer and fewer people don’t already have our comic book. Our new addition this year – physical copies of our eight music albums and the four contributed ones on a USB drive – didn’t entirely compensate the downward trend even though they were highly coveted.

The auction, on the other hand, was a resplendent success. Possible reasons include increased pooling of funds in bidding wars, extra time, and acceptance of electronic payments. Winners still paid about €16,000 in cash but also about €7,000 through credit card, debit card, or PayPal. The PayPal transactions will have incurred additional fees, which I have only estimated below. I’ll update the post when I have more precise data.

Statistics

Donations

Table Saturday €1,924.50 Table Sunday €1,996.30 Auction €23,064.32 Credit card fees –€184.94 PayPal fees (approx.) –€60.00 €26,735.98

Top Items at the Table

Count Total USB drive (all 12 albums) 33 €1,485 Bound Together 32 €800 “Bit coin” 406 €406

Top Items in the Auction

Perry’s hat €5,394.32 Claire Corlett’s Sweetie Belle plushie €1,100.00 Haselwoelfchen’s Canni plushie €1,050.00 Nighty331’s Starlight Glimmer sculpture €1,000.00 The Sweetie Bot Team’s Sweetie Bot sculpture €950.00

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