On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Phil Lacefield Jr. wrote:
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?
I certainly won't participate if it's moved to a Saturday. I know I'm sounding like a broken record... we already devote a ton of time at the normal meetings to auctions, and the general auction is crazy long.
Some items can be sold as fixed-price lots off to the side (wood, maybesome 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.
We've actually done this in the past. We just use the same tagging system as with the rest of the auction, the "cashier-ette" writes down the bidder number on the tag, and it goes into the system with the other items. It can be manned by one dedicated person fairly easily. And splits are just as easy as with the live auction, so long as they're pink-tagged. It is ideal for items like bogwood, because you make it a per-pound price, and ideal as you say, for muggle plants, because you make it a buck a bunch or whatever. The danger of the fixed price table is that it draws people away from bidding, so again, not worth going nuts on it.
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