Re: Last Night's Auction

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Thanks Clay.  It was really good from my perspective as well.  Of the past
four "computerized" auctions, this went the smoothest.  I think I only
heard about three "Uh...Erik!" panics in the whole night.  We actually
finished EARLY this time, with the final bid being 9:40 or so, not 10:40.

Some fun stats:

Gross income $2923.50, minus $869.40 paid to splits. Net is $2054.10.  

There were 289 lots auctioned in about two hours, which means 2.4 items
per minute!  (Whew!  No wonder we were so pooped out by the end!)

There were 54 bidder cards issued.  The most number of items were bought
by #147, who purchased 30 items, closely followed by #112, who bought 27
items.  Seven people bought more than 10 items.

Nifty Table!

                General         Plant           General         Plant
                2001            2001            2000            2000

Bidders         54              39              57              38

Items Sold      289             231             411             328


So last year, we had about 120 more lots to sell (almost 50% more), which
explains why it took an extra hour.  Likewise, same deal with the 2000
plant auction, which I recall took us past 10 PM.  So it definitely helped
us to keep the number of lots down (especially by combining the "six
packs" of random manufacturer stuff).  It probably also helped that we
didn't have an entire box of Fritz-Zyme and Jungle products.  I think for
any of our auctions to get out on time, it's crucial to keep the number of
lots down below 300 (I remember that the plant auction in 2000 was just
brutal as well).

  - Erik


On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Hess, Clay A wrote:

>   Good Morning,
> 
> 
>        I just wanted to take a moment and thank all of you, that helped last 
> night, for the wonderful effort you put into making the Auction a very big 
> success.  This was one of the smoothest Auctions I can remember, in my 20 
> years with GSAS, and it has to be the biggest one we have ever had too!  I 
> could not believe the amount of stuff we had to sell this year......and the 
> quantity of fish was fantastic!  Looks like we will be sitting pretty good 
> for our budget next year, for guest speakers and such.
> 
>       Thanx again to all of you that helped and made this a delightful 
> Auction and made my job very easy, once more.....~smile~
> 
>       Clay Hess
>       President
> 

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com