Auction

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

I am resending this, becuase, though it did get through to the list
yesterday, it was buried under Neil's accidental inclusion of the entire
digest which featured Mike's accidental quote of the previous day's
digest. Folks, PLEASE BE CAREFUL.  I could set up the list to
unceremoniously reject all mail that quotes the digest; you'd just get it
returned to you with no explanation.

          -- yesterday's mail --
My opinion on this matter:

Splits are definitely a larger pain to track on a normal auction.  When we
do this locally, it requires at least one other person, and the total is
always different on our sheet than it is on the seller's (thankfully, most
aren't grumpy about it .... but there's always one person).  I don't know
how a silent auction runs from a technical perspective, maybe it's easier
to track everything, but if Mary says "I would need X other people to help
run the table" and X other people don't volunteer, then we should let her
run it any way she wants.  Bottom line.

That said, I might be able to contribute some auction software I wrote for
running our local club's auction.  It tracks splits quite nicely.  It
would probably need to be slightly modified for silent auction use, but
I'll bet it could work if I knew the rules.

If we CAN do this from a technical and personel standpoint, I am in
agreement with Neil that we certainly don't need the money at this point,
and if the object is to get plants traded, then a split is nice.  And
advertising a nice split like 80/20 is a very good enticement.

  - Erik

PS: Everybody, PLEASE remember to either trim the rest of the digest from
your reply, or just compose a new message.  Thanks.



-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com