There are times when gifts will come in as gifts-in-kind that the non-profit my later decide to offer as an auction item. There may also be times when an auction item such as a laptop does not get sold at auction and the Organization decides to use it for its own needs. This would mean the auction item would need to convert to a gift-in-kind. When you delete an auction item it also deletes the donation revenue. It would be nice if you had the option to delete the donation revenue or not. Then you could perhaps change the payment method to gift-in-kind.