It is all good everyone. No harm done, imdabaron; people are bidding early! I knew there were going to be questions, and whoever the donors were obviously know their clacks and the current market, so none of this is exactly shocking.
I'd like to think that people are just putting their max bids in early and letting it fly instead of "sniping" (that is what it used to be called, iirc) at the end. Whether that is because they know the story or not, I don't know.
I chose not to put the "charity" info in the listing because I wanted to keep that just within my GH fam. Plus there are probably hoops to jump through on ebay, and we aren't an official charity. I started out with it just as a t-shirt design help/contest because I needed help from some geeks, but it snowballed into a much bigger giveaway plus now all these letters, packages, donations, etc. Love is love.