Re: [AGA-sc] AGA2K4 Auction Crash Question

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

I'll keep saying this until until the cows come home: 

We should run as much stuff through Silent and Live
Auctions as we can, until the items run out -- best thing
in the world would be to have the whole thing end earlier
rather than later in the day. 

Vent:

This year, they dumped stuff from the Silent into the Live
Auction -- what idiocy! Dumping the silent auction stuff
into the live auction (because it was perceived by GWAPAs
as not bringing in enough money in the Silent auction),
that just meant more stuff was up for sale later in the day
when most folks had gone home -- it meant the stuff went
for next to nothing in the Live Auction because the live
auction had too many goods, too late, when there were too
few people around.

How not to run a business: have lots of goods still for
sale after the buyers have gone home.

Btw, I wonder how the closing of the books is going. It's
been a month since the convention and I'm not expecting
anything as comprehensive as I produced last year.

sh



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

> 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
> > >>
> > >
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