After the storm in Germany, a volunteer auctioned his baseball cap.
He donates the enormous income to the flood victims.
Cologne - Markus Wipperfürth is one of the better-known voluntary helpers in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The farmer from the Cologne area is on site every day to help the victims of the flood disaster in Germany *.
He shares videos and photos from the flood area on Facebook every day.
Now he was selling his trademark for a good cause: a used, gray-brown baseball cap.
The cap was contested: 41 bidders submitted 90 bids within three days, as can be seen from the eBay bid overview.
Wipperfürth previously announced on Facebook that 100 percent of the money would go to those affected by the storm disaster in Ahrweiler *.
The agricultural entrepreneur got the idea for the fundraising campaign through a Facebook follower, as he
reported
to the
WDR
.
He offered him money for his cap under a posting.
Storm disaster: Helfer collects donations on Ebay
Then Wipperfürth started the campaign on Ebay for a good cause.
The old cap also brought surprisingly high bids for the provider itself: on Thursday afternoon (August 5), the highest bid was already over 133,000 euros.
This also surprised Wipperfürth, who initially assumed that there were dubious "fun providers", as
reported by
RP Online
.
An examination by Ebay and the Sparkasse would have shown, however, that the offers were serious.
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Farmer Markus Wipperfürth auctioned off his cap in favor of the flood victims of the storm disaster in Germany.
© Oliver Berg / dpa
But then the site was suddenly taken offline because the eBay auction was automatically stopped.
The reason for this was "formal discrepancies in the seller's account," as Ebay
reported
to
WDR
.
Savings bank board member Guido Mombacher from the Kreissparkasse Ahrweiler explained to the
WDR
that the algorithm found the offers too high for an old cap.
The auction could not continue until Friday evening (August 6th).
Cap auctioned for over 80,000 euros: buyer remains unknown
According to the dpa, the last bid on Sunday afternoon (August 8th) was 124,299 euros.
The cap was sold for a little less because the offer was withdrawn.
Ultimately, the farmer was able to collect 80,350 euros for the cap.
Wipperfürth is pleased with the result: “I expected a maximum of 1,500 euros for my cap.
So: Everything is great, ”he said in an interview with
WDR
.
Who had spent so much money on a used cap remained open at first.
The buyer has not yet reported by name.
Wipperfürth then wanted to hand over the trademark to him himself, as
RP Online
reports.
*
Merkur.de
is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
List of rubric lists: © Oliver Berg / dpa
