As awesome as Erik may be at auctioning, I've seen him on Sunday of the convetion... he's cooked. He wears too many hats as is. I think we need to find other alternative for this one. (I'll stand up for him;-) Ehem, of course, this is another good reason for running more stuff through the SILENT auction.<g> Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Olson" <kathy@thekrib.com> To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] AGA2K4 Auction Crash Question > Erik is AWESOME AT AUCTIONING, but not sure you can get him to volunteer > at anything else....now I will likely be mugged for saying that....it is > not biased either! :) > > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, S. Hieber wrote: > > > Oh same in Dallas you might recall. > > Tom volunteered himself for DC, which wouldn't have been a > > problem except there was a shortage of alternatives. > > > > Have to figure out how to word this carefully in the doc > > ;-) > > > > sh > > --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote: > > > >> It was over, IMHO, at that point. The room never really > >> recovered, and > >> kept going on with less people. Larry got back in, and > >> the pace went > >> back to fast, but with a somewhat smaller room. > >> > >> Something for next year: Don't let Tom auction. He > >> doesn't know how > >> to keep the pace fast, and that is the single more > >> important thing with so > >> many items (short of limiting the items, grouping into > >> bigger lots, or > >> extending the time). Hey, probably won't be a problem as > >> he'll probably > >> be wanting a fee now. :P > >> > >> - Erik > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > AGA-sc mailing list > > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > > > _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc