"Any members coming here to promote fund raising of an obvious self serving purpose will be banned and NEVER allowed back. You want to help - Make the check payable to Red Cross. I am disgusted at those wanting to make a profit from this tragedy. This is not open for discussion, I will close this statement - grief earns a far different direction then this." all "profits" are going directly to the ones who need it - not the vendors or the store! not one single penny is being kept for any reason!!! and vendors aren't just donating items either, but money from their store that they'd already made before this happened!! the only ppl profiting from this are those who need the aid. i asked for this relief fund so that we could help those in nyc and wash. dc. - how else was a canadian, grief stricken and sickened by these terrorist activities, to help? we couldn't even walk across the bridge to donate blood. the only thing we could do was offer money.... if we had the liquid assets available, we'd have given directly to the red cross too, but then, if we had the liquid assets available, we would be putting all our creations in freestuff!! this seemed like a good solution, motivated only by the desire to help, not out of some machiavellian plot involving greed! okay. there have been some survivors rescued, which is wonderful news :) and a silver lining to the dark cloud of the PA crash is that apparently, the passengers died as heroes. slight comfort, but very laudable! they were all any parent could ask for!