Sir Robin Bear Winner Tells Fan About Her Experience

The winner of the Sir Robin Bear, who has asked to remain anonymous, gave stripedshirt from Clayversity a summary of her exciting experience! This summary was posted by Rainlover at The Clayboard:

Posted by stripedshirt at CV:

Overnight, the winner of the Sir Robin Bear responded to me. This person requested to remain anonymous, but was willing to share the experience of the bid, and I have permission to do so. It's a wonderful recap.

Read & enjoy:

I have never taken part in anything so exciting! I had talked to the young man that was handling my bid there a couple of times during the day and it was all I could think about all day long. I was the top pre-bidding leader, but knew that amount was not going to be enough to put Sir Robin to the top where he deserved to be. During one of my conversations earlier in the day, I had agreed on a top of $6,000, but had said if it got near that amount, I would want to be notified. I had been given a time that they projected Sir Robin's bidding would start and I understood it would be near the end.

As the evening wore on, I was getting nervous as it was a few minutes past the time I had expected Sir Robin's auction to begin --- and then the phone rang! I am not sure the exact amount the bidding was at when I received the call --- I think $5,000, but all I know I was quickly saying yes, to $6,500 and just kept saying okay to each figure quoted to me. At $15,000 I almost stopped, and told my phone contact, "wait" and then said go for it. I must admit I was relieved when I was told they were giving the final warnings and it looked like I might have it at $17,000. Then yes!!! I cannot describe the joy I felt to know our Sir Robin Bear made it to $17,000. I do not know who the other bidders were, but I hope we made Clay proud. My phone contact was very excited and so was I.

All I could think about was Clay Aiken deserved to have his Sir Robin bear go for the highest amount. Clay has given us so much these five years and this is just a small way to add to the awareness of how important Clay Aiken is to all of us. I am asking stripedshirts to post this for me and when I have received Sir Robin (the bear), pictures will be taken and posted.

Our Sir Robin Broadway Bear will then be donated to BAF for their next gala.

Wow, what an extremely generous fan to make certain that Sir Robin got the top bid and who then will donate it to the next BAF Gala! Clay fans are amazing!