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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