Re: [AGA-sc] seller rules

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, S. Hieber wrote:

> A fee to move items sounds smart. We might be lucky to have numbered 
> items in the live auction -- whose going to number them and when and 
> whose's going to keep track of which bags are where?. Moving items up 
> might mean walking a bag up to Larry (or whoever is auctioneer) or 
> auction supervisor and saying, I want to bid on this now, here's $2. 
> Which ain't bad.

I already have the pre-printed tags for the items, both donations and 
split items.  Each has a unique number, but I suspect we won't have all 
the donations tagged before the auction (some may get tagged by the runner 
as they bring it to the auctioneer).  I don't think we'll want to have a 
second number printed on the bag.  I like your latter idea much better. 
Take the bag and $2 to the cashier/runner.


> Someone should supervise the bagging of goods, numbering of silent 
> auciton items, the rotatin of auctioneers, operation of the bidding, 
> order of items, etc. I'll take over that but only if no one else steps 
> up.

I have kinda offered to do that too.  At least I think I will need to 
train the volunteers who might not be used to the system I am bringing.
For instance, that whole numbering thing.  The only difference between 
live auction items and silent auction items is *which tag* we tape on the 
bag.

Was there any particular scheme to deciding which items went silent and 
which went live?  That'd be good to know when we're bagging them.

> I'll be watching the money anyhow, or tyring to. I'm not assuming 
> there will be any staff beyond mysef auctioneer (or two) and a cashier. 
> We can settle whether anyone else has stepped up as soon as we want.

There will be people offering to be runners.  Always are.

My list is like this:  2 auctioneers (trade off hourly or so), 1-4 
computer ops (more so early on when they have to check in sellers .. later 
turns into one op recording bids, another acting as checkout cashier), 
silent auction wrangler or two.

   - Erik


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Erik Olson
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