Here is a fundraising opportunity for our club that we would like for you to participate in, if at all possible. Before you roll your eyes, we want you to know that this won’t cost you any more money and may even allow you to make some money!
MySkatingMall.com
“Supporting the skating community”
The fund raising is through the website MySkatingMall.com. 5% to 90% of every sale on this site goes to raise money for skating clubs and teams. It is a marketplace to buy and sell new and used skating items. In many ways, it is similar to eBay but customized to figure skating. MySkatingMall allows skaters and parents to list gently used skating items for sale that they are no longer using. All basic listings on the site are only $1 per item per year.
Now here’s the beauty of the site: MySkatingMall enables our club to make money in three ways:
- When you list an item on the site, you have the option to choose how much of the sale price you want forwarded to our club’s PayPal account when the item sells. The top choice is 87.5%. You can choose anywhere between 2.5% and 87.5% but our hope is that you will choose the 87.5% so that we will have more funds to support our members. If just five of our members sell a $50 item and each has chosen 87.5% of the purchase to go to our club, we will have raised $218.75!
- When you buy an item from MySkatingMall, 2.5% of the purchase price will automatically be forwarded to our PayPal account.
- MySkatingMall has established partnerships with many skating retailers. When our members go to MySkatingMall and then link to these Partner sites, 5% of every purchase will go to our club’s account. The logos and links to participating Partner Stores can be found on the bottom half of the page at http://www.myskatingmall.com.
We hope that you see that our Club can make money from items that you are no longer using and from purchases that you are already making! If you have access to a digital camera and a computer, you will be able to participate in our fund raising campaign.
All users of the site need to have a free PayPal account. Besides that, all we need you to do is shift your purchases to MySkatingMall.com.
Our club has established a free account at MySkatingMall where we are able to track which of our members are participating and what transactions we are getting credit for. That way, you can be confident that our club is receiving the money from your transactions.
Please go to MySkatingMall and register to support our Club! Choose “Figure Skating Club of Memphis” from the drop-down menu on the first page. If you are looking for more information, there are also “How it Works” and “FAQ” links at the top of the MySkatingMall.com homepage that can explain the site in more detail.
Thank you for supporting the Figure Skating Club of Memphis!
