I haven ' t ever read manga in my device but Kindle paperwhite has an inbuilt memory of 4 gb <| sep |> That ' s like a $ 4 , 000 mo apartment now . <| sep |> While I dont think you ' re entirely wrong , it depends on how much more the public auction would get over the silent auction , and if that ' s enough to offset the cost of the fees associated with any auction house or website . For a pen like this , I ' m not so sure it would be that different , and there could even be instance where you end up with a higher price in the silent auction . I feel with such a highly desirable material , someone interested would bid their absolute max in a silent auction because they wouldn ' t want to miss out . For a public auction you might see that the leading bid is $ 800 so you wait until just before it ends to get it as cheap as possible , and maybe you have to bid up to $ 1500 to win it . But if you came in with the mindset I want this pen , and will bid up to $ 2000 to get it in a silent auction that $ 2000 would be the submitted bid , and earn $ 500 more . Even if it ended up being the same , not having to pay the eBay service fee or whatever allows more to be donated to the cause .