NPBid has developed dramatically since our last update. We have gained numerous items and have developed an important deal with a local clothing store selling New Palestine High School Football gear. So far, we have improved our list of potential donors as well as been in contact with the majority of them including Pacers, Ball State, and other colleges in the state. Guedel Design Our biggest project lead so far has been with Guedel Design. Guedel Design is a local team store for our high school football team. We first contacted them for the sole purpose of seeing if they would like to donate to our project. However, he countered with an even better deal. He offered us 15% of all proceeds on his online store for the week (10/15-10/21). Having no traction with our project yet, we immediately accepted. This was very important to us because we finally had revenue coming in. As of right now, 10/19, we are set to make around $140 from Guedel alone. The bottom of Blog #2 has a spreadsheet of the current profit we are set to make through 10/18. Dick's Sporting Goods Last week, we tried to go above and beyond. Instead of contacting local colleges and community based stores, we tried top tier companies. To our surprise, we actually got a response. Dick's Sporting Goods has a location 20 minutes away from us and we thought they could be a perfect spot for items. We called them and they had us fill out an online donation request form. A week later, they mailed us 5 packets of coupons, more than enough, and $100 grant to use in the store. On Wednesday 10/17, we left class and journeyed to Dicks to claim our grant and use the money. In total, we secured nine items. An experience we had at Dicks was where we helped a guy save almost $60 using the excess coupons we had. Other Notable Actions Some other notable actions include a trip to the Pacers Fan Jam where we met Kyle Krol, our Pacers contact. He gave us some Pacers items. Some of these clothes are from the 1970's! Ball State has just confirmed our donation request which is currently being processed and sent. Team Image donated 5 items worth around $100 in store. With previous clothing items from the past NPBay, we have accumulated a total of 26 items.
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