Re: [AGA-mcm] Fwd: SFBAAPS: AGA Program Proposal (fwd)

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

There's that word, "hogwash," so rarely helpful. But the
blame is mine for putting my own thoughts poorly, indeed,
wrongly. You might disagree with the view but I believe it
merits valuation greater than porcine surfactants.

We *could* do *other* stuff well if done on Sunday but I
sincerely, no utterly doubt that we can pull off the
auctions well and have any other stuff focus on at the same
time. It's possible but it's a lot to ask, especially if
there isn't any good system of auction process and cash
management. The auction has a small window of time
(irrespective of the number of auction items) in which it
can move items in a financially relevent way. Yet, it's
financial performance it crucial to the pricing sturcture,
and therefore, in turn, attendance. The auction is as
important to how the convention works as the hotel deal or
very nearly so. The AGA has had some really big snafus with
auctions. It's not like we have auctions "down" yet. We
could, but we don't. And we don't know what track record
this team will have because we don't even know who the team
is yet.

I would rather see focus on doing the auction really well
rather than doing additinal things on Sunday and risking
big probs or ho-hum sales or panels.

But as you say this is all just details. I don't even know
if I can afford to go to this convention.

sh


> . . . As for "the auction is all that can happen on 
> Sunday", to
> quote Wright 
> Huntley, "hogwash!"  We swung Amano's demo Sunday morning
> in 2001, PLUS 
> the panel discussion (gak!).  In 2002 we did the panel
> discussion before 
> the auction.  Yeah, the auction workers don't get to see
> it, and they'd 
> have to schedule it in a different room, but it might be
> doable.
> 
> But those are just scheduling details.  Move the
> introductions to Friday 
> night & reduce to 10 minutes each, knock off or move a
> speaker, problem 
> solved!

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