Re: [GSAS-board] Plant auction

["Seattle_Aquarist" <Seattle_Aquarist@comcast.net>]

Hi Erik, Phil, et al,

I'll wade in with my 2 cents worth; why not let the members decide?  We
could either do an e-mail survey or an informal hand showing at a meeting
for their input.  That would increase the probability that the board would
make a decision that the majority of the members supported.

The pluses to a Saturday Plant Auction is the possibility of increased
attendance and the resulting additional revenue for the club.  The question
does need to be asked, do we need the additional revenue?

The negative is giving up a day on the weekend day (which I value as I am
sure the rest of us do) and the likelihood that it would involve more work.

Roy


-----Original Message-----
From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com]
On Behalf Of Phil Lacefield Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:32 AM
To: 'GSAS board members and alumni'
Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Plant auction

>>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.

Now see, I don't get that.  Isn't that the whole point of the Feb meeting is
a plant auction?  And if it's grown to the point where it needs to be
longer, and our only choice is Saturday, why wouldn't we want to move it
there?  The auctions make us a LOT of money, as we've seen, and the more
money we have the more cool speakers we can fly in from elsewhere. I think
our membership really digs the auctions, both the after-meeting ones and the
big ones, simply looking at the attendance proves this.  Why not give the
membership more of what they want? And who cares how long the auctions are
if the items up for bid are good, everyone's happy AND the GSAS makes money
to support things throughout the year?

>>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.  

Sounds like a winner.  I'm all for it!

Phil


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