Well, they had only 18000 pledges for November 5th, but 37000 actual donaters (a little less than double), with an average donation of a little bit over $100 (I think like $103). So if December 16th is a little less than double the pledges, say 60000, with an average of 103, that’s $6180000. Not counting the fact that his supporters had the opportunity to save up much longer for this one.
Well, that sounds reasonable, I hadn’t followed the previous money bomb to close, wasn’t aware the actual number of donors was so much higher than the pledges. I’d just add that he will probably have a lower ratio of actual donations to pledges this time because not only did people have longer to save up, they had a greater chance of hearing ahead of time about the donation event.
So 31,000 pledges, maybe he’ll get 55,000 donations this time, and a slightly higher average donation, let’s give me 10% higher, $114, and we’re looking at 6.2 million.
Not bad for a donation drive, but the $10MM goal is still far off.
All in fun, a bit of mental aerobics instead of repairing my snowblower today.