Volunteer Lee Chung-chieh (李忠潔) on Thursday posted an appeal on Facebook, saying that the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) Songshan Air Base Command had placed an order on Aug. 29 for 1,900 moon cakes for a Mid-Autumn Festival event. The organization had not taken a deposit on the order because it trusted the base command, he wrote. However, on Monday, the day before the order was due, the command called to lower its order to 900, citing insufficient funding. Within three hours of Lee’s message being posted, the 1,000 moon cakes sold out, with baseball player Yang Dai-kang (陽岱鋼) posting that Lee could send him a private message if the moon cakes did not sell out. Lee later posted another message thanking the public for its kindness.

Source: Taipei Times September 11, 2016 15:56 UTC