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Sad Silent Auction Winners – In Legal Terms - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: There are so many ways to create problems for one’s self when fundraising. One kind of problem with a lot of potential fallout occurs when you are auctioning a service in return for the highest donation. In this case submitted as a question to Mark Pestronk, a lawyer specializing in travel law, a travel agency donated a trip complete with a list of restrictions but the nonprofit who auctioned the service did not disclose the restrictions. Now the donor who placed the winning bid is angry and the travel agency (the other donor) feels hung out to dry.