Re: [AGA-mcm] [AGA Convention Feedback] (fwd)

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

At best, the silent is too popular to not do it and at at
worst it's too controversial to not do it. 

The two best organized silent auctions I've seen -- not
that I've seen a lot -- were AGA 2002 and NJAS 50th.

You know how the former went. the latter was in the hallway
outside the speaker rooms (don't ask where the vendor room
was for that show!!).

All the traffic back and forth to/from the talks marched
right past the goods. Excellent way to market.

I'm not sure if someone bringing a lot of plants is bad
from a financial or time perspective. It could depress
prices individually, but that doesn't mean less total
revenue. I'd like to see the breakdown on the auction sales
this year by seller. In Dallas, Ben's plants averaged about
in the middle of the range of the average price of other
sellers' goods despite having brought 50 plants -- the
volume did not appear to depress prices.

When Roger cleaned up at the Houston convention, it was
with a noe half dozen or two bags of marsilea. He was the
highest avg. earner for the 2002 auction, iirc.

I say, run silent run deep (wtih items)

sh
--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:

> > > Obviously different people have different views on
> the
> > > silent auction.  I
> > > still like it best.<g>  I'm not sure, owever, that it
> > > should be going on
> > > during the main auction.  That _is_ confusing.
> >
> > But if it's run in another room, people have to give up
> one
> > one or run back and forth. I like the NJAS method of
> doing
> > the silents all through the convention in the lobby or
> > hallway areas. And then the live runs without any
> > distractions. It hknk that best of all possible auction
> > worlds.
> 
> Oh, I didn't mean do it somewhere else DURING the live
> auction... that would
> be even worse than it is now.  I would have it at a
> totally different time.
> I actually REALLY liked the way we did it at the first 2
> conventions.  It
> was a social hour, with a cash bar and nibblies.  People
> really mingled, had
> some very amusing "wars" over heavily contested plants,
> and everyone had a
> great time.  One table closed out every 10-20 minutes, so
> there was always
> something going on.
> 
> But then, if it were up to me, I'd do the WHOLE auction
> that way ;-)
> 
> > I was toldk Ben brought between 70 and 90 -- even more
> than
> > last year!
> 
> Oh, OK.  If that's happening, yes, we have to put a limit
> on it.  We just
> don't have enough buyers to support that!  I'd probably
> put a 2 bag per
> species limit on, though, before I limited lots in
> general.  If you've got
> someone who's got a lot of unusual species to share, we
> don't want to stop
> them.
> 
> Karen
> 
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