sisabet

This could be great or at the very least interesting, which is also great and sometimes better:

The basic idea of the vid auction is this: a vidder puts up an offer to make a vid to order, with whatever conditions she feels are appropriate -- e.g., listing what fandoms she'll work in, how the song will be chosen (both parties should be happy with the song, but beyond that, either one can be responsible for coming up with suggestions), how much input the bidder gets to have into clip choices -- and then we hold an online auction, with the proceeds to go to the con.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/vividcon/9598.html

I get a lot of emails, although not as many as I used to, with vid ideas - and I consider all of them, but rarely ever have I made a requested vid. I think "Closer" might be the only one. I've also been on the other side where I have wanted a vid made and I have wanted a particular vidder to do it and I have harped and begged and groveled until it was done (Thanks Wendy!!)

This is like taking out the strong-arming and replacing it with bidding. And I am getting good a bidding with all my eBay experience and all. I won a book over there.