The most important detail you need to know about the 2025 Cancer Gets Lost Online Charity Auction is that every cent raised in this auction will be donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation!

The LRF funds cutting-edge research to find cures, and provides vital education and support services to those affected by lymphoma. We selected the LRF to receive 100% of our auction proceeds this year in honor of my brother and all families that are or have been affected by blood cancers.

Auction Dates & Details

The 2025 Cancer Gets Lost Online Charity Auction will open on August 15 at 8:15am ET! The auction closes on August 23 at 4:15pm ET, numerically - one at a time! IF an item receives a bid in the final minute the listing is open, bidding will extend for 2-3 minutes. This will occur up to 3 times before a final bid is declared the winner.

CGL Charity Auction REGISTRATION

*PLEASE read all registration instructions and shipping restrictions below BEFORE registering. Thank you!

Registration for the Cancer Gets Lost 2025 Online Charity Auction opens on August 3 at 8:15am ET, and you may register at any time from then until right before the auction closes at 4:15pm ET on August 23. Once Registration opens, everyone will be able to view all CGL auction items, and start bookmarking their favorites!

We will share the Registration link HERE when it opens! After you click on that link, look for the Get Approved to Bid button in the upper right corner of our auction page.

After you register to bid in the CGL charity auction, you’ll see this message: Auction Approval Pending. We appreciate your patience, as we must approve each bidder individually. This process is necessary but quick, because we must double check that bidders have US shipping addresses for this particular auction. All reg approvals will occur within hours of being submitted, except when we are asleep or traveling!

Please scroll down to read the shipping rules and restrictions before attempting to register for our auction and then contact us if you have any further questions (CGLauctions at gmail dot com).

**IMPORTANT: Please register to bid using an email account that you actually check and use! It has become a challenging issue for us after charity auctions when we are unable to contact a few winning bidders because they never actually check the email they registered with.

Providing Method of Payment When You Register

When you register for the CGL 2025 charity auction on our external host site, it WILL ask you for a credit card. HOWEVER! It is for security purposes only, and neither the site nor CGL will charge anything to your card.

This is the message you’ll see when you register:

“By clicking ‘Confirm Your Information’ below, you agree to allow your credit card to be authorized for $1.00 CAD by ‘LIVE AUCTION GROUP PORT COQUITLA BC’ to ensure your card is valid. This amount will be held for 7 to 30 days before being automatically released.”

CGL Auction: NO Buyer’s Premium Fee!

Most auctions of this magnitude require winning bidders to pay a Buyer’s Premium fee per item, in addition to the winning bid and shipping cost. CGL is covering all Buyers Premium Fees (3% per item), so that you don’t have to! Winning bidders will only have to pay for items won + shipping. This allows CGL to donate 100% of ALL auction proceeds to the Lymphoma Research Foundation!

**PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU REGISTER

We kindly ask that you please only place bids in the 2025 CGL charity auction if you genuinely intend to pay for the items you win and have the means to do so. Unfortunately, we’ve experienced fraud with almost every CGL auction - which is terrible because the funds promised by winning bidders are then NOT donated to the cancer charity we’ve designated to receive all proceeds. If you win an item in our auction but fail to pay for it after, you will no longer be allowed to register for and participate in any CGL charity auctions.

FYI: after you submit your registration information, IF our auction host site notifies us that you’ve failed to pay for an item in a previous auction on their site (CGL or otherwise), your CGL 2025 auction registration will be denied.

* We ask that EVERYONE also please read the Terms & Conditions and Shipping Restriction details below BEFORE you register for our charity auction.

CGL Charity Auction Terms & Conditions

Disclaimer: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL ITEMS IN THE 2025 CANCER GETS LOST CHARITY AUCTION ARE SOLD IN “AS IS” CONDITION, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
Cancer Gets Lost cannot be held accountable for any delays in shipping due to customs or carrier delays, weather or unforeseen circumstances outside of our control.
There are NO refunds! 100% of the proceeds from the 2025 Cancer Gets Lost Online Charity Auction are being donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

What is a Fiscal Sponsor and what does it have to do with this auction?

CGL is a 501c (3)-sponsored organization. We operate under the umbrella of our Fiscal Sponsor FJC, A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds. They are a 501c (3) public charity that provides management of charitable giving for small organizations like ours. FJC oversees all of the financials for Cancer Gets Lost, they collect tax-deductible contributions made via CGL, and then disburse final auction proceed checks to designated cancer charities on our behalf. FJC has earned a top 4-star rating on Charity Navigator!

Regarding tax receipts from FJC: if you win a CGL charity auction item and the difference between your winning bid and the starting bid of the auction item is over $250, you will receive a tax receipt. For example, if your winning bid is $300 and the starting price was $10, you’ll receive a tax receipt for $290. Please note: FJC mails out tax receipts to the mailing address you provide us with, usually 2-3 months after the auction ends.

Post-Auction and Payment Details

After the auction ends, if you’ve won an item, CGL will email you an invoice within 24 hours that includes detailed instructions, our specific payment link, and your shipping cost! Please do NOT attempt to make a payment anywhere before you receive your CGL invoice.

The only acceptable method of payment for CGL auction items is PayPal, which must be made directly to the CGL PayPal account using the Donate link on this website (which directs winning bidders to the only CGL PayPal account, managed by our fiscal sponsor FJC, A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds). Please NEVER attempt to make a payment for a CGL auction item on our external auction host site or anywhere else.

If you don’t have a PayPal account, you will be able to pay for your auction items using a credit card via PayPal.

Payment for the auction items you win is expected in full within 7 calendar days of the day you receive an email invoice from us.

ALSO! If the name on the PayPal account you use to pay for your auction item is NOT your real full name (i.e. a nickname or name of business), you must let us know! CGL does not have access to our PayPal account, nor are we able to see any addresses associated with your PayPal account. Our fiscal sponsor FJC sends us a report of payments made to our PayPal account but requires that they match the REAL FULL NAMES of winning bidders (for tax receipt purposes)!

Shipping AND Mailing Addresses Please!

After you receive your invoice for items won in the 2025 CGL charity auction + shipping costs, PLEASE email us BOTH your shipping and mailing addresses! We must have your mailing address for tax receipt purposes.

Realistic CGL Shipping Timeline

Shipping will take place in waves, over 3 weeks’ time in September. I am quite literally a party of one and responsible for the packaging, labels, and shipping of hundreds of auction items!

In addition, people are still experiencing longer-than-usual shipping delays due to many events that are out of our control, so I really appreciate your patience.

SHIPPING Logistics

The shipping cost of every item/package will be included in each individual auction listing. If an item requires a special box (i.e. framed artwork), we note additional shipping costs.
ALL CGL auction packages will be trackable and insured. We will email you your tracking numbers once your items are packaged and ready to ship.
Most packages and boxes of any size + all poster tubes will be shipped via UPS Ground.
Most small flats (photos, small prints, etc.) and smaller packages will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail, unless the winning bid is over $500. If so, they will be shipped via UPS Ground.
All scripts and high value auction items/packages with winning bids over $500 will require an adult signature upon delivery. That is an added expense that CGL covers for you.
If you win more than one item, we will combine them together in one package. The exception is small and large posters, which will have to ship separately in poster tubes. PLEASE NOTE: when you win multiple items, your shipping cost will increase in order for us to fit all into one box or when we have to ship poster tubes separately.
Shipping costs are real prices; CGL does not mark up anything. In fact, we always underestimate final shipping costs and wind up covering ALL of the extra costs as a result.
We do not charge you for boxes or packaging, JUST the shipping cost.
With the environment in mind, CGL ships out auction items in primarily repurposed boxes. While the outside of your packages may not always be perfect, it’s what’s inside that counts!
When possible, posters will be placed inside of poster tubes, and then inside of cardboard poster boxes. We prefer double protection because of too many damaged and destroyed irreplaceable posters and prints in auctions past. The only exceptions will be the few oversized posters, which will ship in extended sized poster tubes only.
IF you live within an hour of the Boston MA area & want to save money on shipping, we can arrange a drop off in person! Let us know if you’re interested.
Each auction item will be accompanied by a CGL CoA (Certificate of Authenticity).

Shipping Insurance & Irreplaceable Auction Items

As you know, almost all of our CGL auction items are either rare or 1-of-a-kind. Some are absolutely irreplaceable. There is always a risk that a package might get lost or damaged in transit (which is entirely out of our control). If that happens to your auction item, we will have to reimburse you for your donation. Which means that CGL has to subtract that amount from the grand total we’re donating to the Lymphoma Research Foundation. So, we package everything up as securely as we can and hope for the best after items are shipped out! 99.5% of the time, CGL auction packages arrive in perfect condition, as intended. :)

In addition, although each auction package will be insured, if something happens to it – the carrier only reimburses us for a tiny portion of its value. We have never recouped the entire cost of a package that was damaged in transit. If we were to add insurance to auction packages with the actual Final Bidding Prices, there is no way y’all would pay for shipping! Prohibitively expensive is an understatement.

We Have to Give Back!

After all winning bidder payments have been verified by FJC (our fiscal sponsor) AND all auction packages have been received, 100% of the proceeds from the 2025 Cancer Gets Lost Online Charity Auction will be donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation! This usually occurs 2 months after our auction has ended.

If you’re not interested in participating in our online charity auction but would like to kindly make a small donation to the LRF, we appreciate your consideration! You can either donate via their site directly or via CGL, and we will then designate that 100% of your contribution will be included in our final post-auction donation to the LRF (if you make a donation in any amount between now and October of 2025).

CGL Transparency

Full disclosure: I fund and run Cancer Gets Lost myself. I am a full-time volunteer and have neither kept or earned any money raised in CGL charity auctions (nor plan to). CGL is a true labor of love; I am deeply proud to have dedicated my life to fundraising for myriad cancer charities!

Thank you for registering and/or supporting CGL!

Thank you so much for your interest in the 2025 CGL Online Charity Auction, and support of CGL’s cancer charity fundraising endeavors! With this auction, your contributions to the LRF via CGL will make an impactful difference for blood cancer survivors and their families, as well as those researching cures. We are all tremendously grateful for your kindness and participation!

If you have any auction questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out (CGLauctions at gmail dot com).

Cheers,

-Jo

Jo Garfein (Co-Founder, Cancer Gets Lost)

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