Re: [GSAS-board] Cash value for auction Plants

["Phil Lacefield Jr." <phil@lacefield.com>]

>>Guys, I would suggest we don't go crazy with the budget -- maybe stick to
what we did last year.  Not to sound too much like Mr. Grumpy here, but with
the plant auction, we have a limited time to move those lots, and last year
we had almost too many lots.  And we've got lots of members growing plants
to sell too.

Would it behoove us to make the Plant Auction a Saturday event, much like
the April sale?  It's early enough in the year that we could probably get it
moved to a Saturday easy enough, which would give us many, MANY more hours
to get it done (although probably only one more would be REALLY necessary).
Thoughts?

>>Some items can be sold as fixed-price lots off to the side (wood, maybe
some very basic plants, etc) to help counter the lot explosion..

I think this is a magnificent idea.  We'd need someone to be a cashier of
sorts, and someone to price all the lots as they come in. Would these items
also be a split pay like the auction, or for donations only?  I'd suggest
that, for maximum profits at the auction side, we put the mundane stuff in
the sale area (hygro, moss, etc.) and put the really juicy stuff in the
auction only.  That way people can pick up whatever bread & butter plants
they need at will, and still pay attention to the unusual stuff in auction
without disrupting the flow.

Phil


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