More than 133,000 euros – the great success of his unusual fundraising campaign on Ebay surprised Fluthelfer Wipperführung himself. After an unplanned stop, it should now continue.
The online auction of an old baseball cap from flood helper Markus Wipperfürth has been “automatically” stopped, according to Ebay, but is to be continued.
“We are still in contact with the seller and support him in putting the offer back on the eBay marketplace as quickly and correctly as possible in order to enable this extraordinary fundraising campaign to be successful,” said an Ebay company spokesman on Friday when asked by the dpa. Unfortunately, the offer was “automatically terminated by our system for security reasons due to formal discrepancies in the seller’s account,” the company explained.
By Thursday afternoon, more than 133,000 euros for the worn cap of the farmer from near Cologne had been offered on the Internet platform, before the page suddenly disappeared from the network. It was initially not available on Friday morning either. “Setting up a correct seller account” could take “a certain amount of time”, according to Ebay. The auction was originally planned to last until Saturday morning.
Wipperfürth has been working as a helper in the Ahrweiler region in Rhineland-Palatinate, which has been particularly hard hit by the flood for weeks. More than 400,000 subscribers now follow him on Facebook, where he provides daily information about the situation in the crisis area and about his work. The flood helper received further public attention with the online auction. Several media had reported.
He doesn’t want to keep the money from the auction. “The proceeds will only benefit the flood victims in Ahrweiler,” he said on Thursday. In his videos from the flood area, the entrepreneur had also criticized the role of the authorities and urged them to withdraw. That had earned him encouragement from the “lateral thinker” scene on social networks, but he distanced himself from it: “I have absolutely nothing to do with lateral thinkers.”
According to Wipperfürth, he did not expect such a great response from the auction. «I thought that might add up to 1,500 euros. I would never have thought that so much money would be offered. ”
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