Donating sale proceeds to a charity

Narlene, a very nice thought there. It is possible to register as a charity to get lower fees, but you need to be a registered charity to do that. I would be inclined in your case to wait for one of the fee free listing days, make a note in your auction saying what you are going to do with any proceeds of the sale, and then you yourself make the donation after the sale goes through.

Oh yes, definitely not interested in registering as a charity.  Your suggestion was what we thought of initially, but wondered if people would worry that we were just trying to boost the price with no intention of donating (though we'd provide a receipt of the donation).  Would be awesome if Trade Me had a function like described.

Contact Trade Me, and say you want to run a charity auction for said organization,

if approved there will be no fees and trade me will promote it too,

https://help.trademe.co.nz/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000401852&id=74e1fb0b-f526-11e9-9502-fba618638700

I ran an auction for a registered charity earlier this year, which Trade Me approved, and I personally handed over the cash,

and had this first line of auction

~~~~~~~~"Trade Me approved Charity Auction"~~~~~~~~

You may want to tick one of the donate options that are on the last page when making a listing too. They don't have Westpac, but if there is a success fee it might mean something goes to one of the listed charities too.

Thanks flossy63, I'll get in touch with them.

Kia ora Narlene, thanks for posting. Yes, get in touch and the team will see what they can do to help.

Wonderful, thank you Lucy, I have filled out the form that flossy63 suggested.