vindy500 Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Try netdeal.co.nz Charlie, you just need to sign up, no fees to list it but theres nothing on it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Trademe "Living Arts Charity' List: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trademe Auctions: luke. - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=174646510 imsweet55 - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pets-animals/Dogs/Collars-leads/auction-171314062.htm norfgurl - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Jewellery-watches/Necklaces-pendants/Bead/Other/auction-171353403.htm guzziman - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pets-animals/Fish/Decorations/auction-170400540.htm alien4 - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pets-animals/Other/auction-171355357.htm guzziman - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pets-animals/Fish/Fishbowls-tanks/auction-171469255.htm Mystic Vampyre - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=171527326 Mystic Vampyre - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=171548385 dewey01 - http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=171807398 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NetDeal Auctions: Mystic Vampyre - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=435 KayCee - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=433 KayCee - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=434 Mystic Vampyre - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=437 Mystic Vampyre - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=438 (something very different!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listed here incase you would like to bid on something to help also. Will add more to the list once more goes up. Anyone has anything to add, just pm or email Mystic ([email protected]) and I can add it to the list. Thanks all for your kind donations! Lucid & Mystic, and Living Art and all the Animals at the Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedazzled Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 but theres nothing on it.... There will be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquab Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 I've ( Guzziman) just listed a 1ft tank on TM proceeds going to Living art. Every little bit helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Thank you Aqua, have added it to the list. Anyone has anything to add, just pm or email Mystic ([email protected]) and I can add it to the list. Lucid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Okies, Mystic's hoping she has done this right: (first time so yeah) Just trying the site out and hoping the Auction might help also. Netdeal: Mystic Vampyre - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=435 EDIT: Added to List. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Has anyone heard how Mark and Caroline are doing? I am assuming they are either rushed off their feet responding to people and enquiries, trying to organise legal stuff etc., or they are simply worn out and trying to recover. If anyone has heard, it would be good to know they are OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 As far as we know they are doing ok, very busy but ok. Waiting to hear back from them but trying not to push them as I know for a fact that they are still rushed off their feet, and will get back to us as soon as they can! They need a Holiday! Still writing letters and sorting some stuff out to help. Starting up some Auctions etc as others are. NetDeal seems good so far, just hope we are understanding it as its very different from Trademe. Lucid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Thanks for that. I imagine that they are incredibly busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Once everythings sorted we should fundraise for a holiday for them :lol: :lol: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannet Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Has anyone heard how Mark and Caroline are doing? I am assuming they are either rushed off their feet responding to people and enquiries, trying to organise legal stuff etc., or they are simply worn out and trying to recover. If anyone has heard, it would be good to know they are OK. i have just been down to the park to see them and there computer has got a virus from an email somewhere they not 100% sure, they have a techy onto it so hopefully mark will be back on here soon. they ant to say thank you for all the suport that every on is giving them. they have had alot (i mean alot 100+ phone calls of people offering support) there is another piece in the BOP times again today telling the people of tauranga that now is the time to help, thanks. Gannet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Thanks for the update Gannet! Much appreciated. Lucid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Bay Of Plenty Times - News Report: 11th-hour reprieve city animal park. 15.08.2008 by Alison King A last-minute stay of execution has meant a Tauranga wildlife park can look a little further into the future. Just 90 minutes before Living Art Wildlife Park was due to go under the hammer, owners Mark and Caroline Paterson received news they had four more weeks to pay back a $250,000 loan. It took several hours of conference calls and the help of a good friend to make sure the park would survive a bit longer. "It was like a miracle," Mr Paterson said yesterday. "I was up until 4am putting together our case and just hoping. I was dreading the conference call _ I've never done anything like that before." The conference call yesterday was between a High Court judge and lawyers for a finance firm calling in the $250,000 loan. The couple also owe another firm $450,000 but that loan isn't being called in. "The judge saw part of my point of view and said we needed to put some money forward to show good faith." Mr Paterson said he had had no idea where to go to find the money _ $20,000 _ but a friend came through at the last minute with an offer. "It was an immense relief. I can't believe how nice some people are in this world. This guy helping me out was mind-blowing." The couple hope a subdivision at the back of the property will come through before the loan is due. They said they were open to offers before the paperwork was finished, just to be secure in the knowledge the park was safe. Since the Bay of Plenty Times put the Patersons' plight in the spotlight, the couple said they had been overwhelmed with the generosity of so many people. One couple, who Mr Paterson said looked as if they had nothing to spare, brought around a food parcel. They have taken some of their animals to other farms for grazing and Sanitarium gifted more Weet-Bix after hearing the couple were eating it for dinner. Within hours of setting up a trust fund in place to look after the animals' welfare, a $5000 donation had been received. The trust fund is at National Bank account number 06-0491-0064112-25. Link: http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3781770&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minchton Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Here is a suggestion that I have pinched from another site. People on this site had to raise money and as a result they were having to sell off their prized collection. The suggestion was made that instead of actually selling they put each item up for sponsorship, either totally or in part. Maybe Mark would like to consider something like this. How it would work is that Livingart list a number of their animals at suggested retail value. Those wishing to sponsor would then "purchase" i.e that is sponsor the animal. For example, say they were to put up a sulpher crested cockatoo, estimated value $1200. This could then be sponsored for the total amount or in order to cater for us lesser mortals be split into smaller amounts. Therefore Cockatoo becomes $1200 or 24 shares at $50. Another example, Red eared turtle, value $45 total or 2 shares at $22.50 each. It is quite amazing how much this could raise. The amount sponsored is a once only, not an ongoing thing If Mark was willing to go along with this I would be more than happy to keep running totals and keep the forum advised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Otago Daily Times - News Report: Tauranga wildlife park gets second chance. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 News: National A Tauranga property housing a wildlife park has been withdrawn from a forced auction after its owners were given extra time to try and repay debt. The Living Art Wildlife Park, owned by Mark and Caroline Paterson and home to hundreds of animals and plenty of debt, was to go under the hammer yesterday. But with financiers breathing down their neck, Mr Paterson today said the couple had won a High Court injunction on the sale going ahead. They now have a one-month stay of execution to allow them to pursue a sub-division development on their property and raise money. Mr Paterson said publicity in the local Bay of Plenty Times about the couple's plight had sparked plenty of positive reaction and the couple hoped to raise enough money to put a big dent in the mortgage. They have also had someone donate money to set up a charitable trust and bank account so people could donate money towards a goal of turning the park into a zoo. "We have to work hard in the next month to get everything in place to make it happen," Mr Paterson told NZPA. He said the park was initially set up with the intention of creating a zoo for Tauranga, along with being a place where injured or unwanted animals could go. But it became a financial struggle after a while and debt got worse when the couple had to go to finance companies rather than banks to keep the place running. A miserable winter and tough economic times, including finance industry woes, had inflamed the situation. Link: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/17981/tauranga-wildlife-park-gets-second-chance 3 News/Campbell Live: Wildlife park dream over for Tauranga couple. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 6:59p.m. In 1994, Caroline and Mark Paterson bought a piece of land in Tauranga to start a wildlife park. They did so to give something back to the community - a place for kids and adults to visit. Today, the park is home to turtles, rare skinks, bearded dragons, waterfowl, pheasants...the list goes on. Once, up to 200 people a week came to see them but not any more and now a large loan they took out to buy the park has been called in. So, the park goes up for auction tomorrow, leaving the fate of the 600 animals up in the air. It wasn't meant to be like this. The big plan was to turn the park into a recognised wildlife park that would bring in the crowds, and revenue. But the playground is incomplete, the picnic area empty, and the snack bar, nothing more than a shell. Link: http://www.3news.co.nz/TVShows/CampbellLive/Stories/tabid/817/articleID/66899/cat/41/Default.aspx Video Link: http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/CampbellLive/tabid/367/articleID/66899/cat/41/Default.aspx#video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markoshark Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Here is a suggestion that I have pinched from another site. People on this site had to raise money and as a result they were having to sell off their prized collection. The suggestion was made that instead of actually selling they put each item up for sponsorship, either totally or in part. Maybe Mark would like to consider something like this. How it would work is that Livingart list a number of their animals at suggested retail value. Those wishing to sponsor would then "purchase" i.e that is sponsor the animal. For example, say they were to put up a sulpher crested cockatoo, estimated value $1200. This could then be sponsored for the total amount or in order to cater for us lesser mortals be split into smaller amounts. Therefore Cockatoo becomes $1200 or 24 shares at $50. Another example, Red eared turtle, value $45 total or 2 shares at $22.50 each. It is quite amazing how much this could raise. The amount sponsored is a once only, not an ongoing thing If Mark was willing to go along with this I would be more than happy to keep running totals and keep the forum advised. Actually, i'd be keen for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 New type of Listing from Mystic: Mystic Vampyre - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=438 Couldnt figure how or where to do this type of 'Auction' so is the best we could come up with. Hope that helps also. Lucid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedazzled Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 New type of Listing from Mystic: Mystic Vampyre - http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=438 Couldnt figure how or where to do this type of 'Auction' so is the best we could come up with. Hope that helps also. Lucid They are looking great Lucid If Mystic has any problems with that site tell her to PM me and I will try and help her out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedazzled Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=434 http://www.netdeal.co.nz/detail.asp?id=433 2 more auctions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucid Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 They had already been added to the list! Cheers! Mystic found them already haha. Thanks for all your help, waiting to hear back from the site owner also. Lucid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfax Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 ok heres another idea, could we organise a working bee to help get the park back on its feet. it looks like they need help with the playground & snack shop etc. is anyone up there able to approach some of the business's for donations of wood etc?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfax Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 maybe another idea for us "lesser mortals" would be to sponsor an animal but do it for the life of the animal. a small payment each month to help with the cost of feeding etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott16 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 bit out there but what about contacting 'what now' the tv programe and getting them to host from the park get all the kids going to pay a small amount to get in to the park to be on what now maybe? plus doing that would get the park on tv again so people can see how great it is and more people may go. just another idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_Shannon Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 i like the sponsor idear if we pick an animal or get given one then have a bord up saying who has what. maby more of the locals that come to the park might be intrested in doing it a small amount each month/week will help out a lot in the long run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broms2 Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 I would be keen on a working bee if wanted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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