Re: [GSAS-board] Plant auction

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

Thanks Erik.  Its cool you have all that available like this. 

Clay


Clay Hess
787 Fuselage Systems Integration Manager and Team Leader
425-931-4322

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To: GSAS board members and alumni <gsas-board@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tue Jan 05 10:59:25 2010
Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Plant auction

Sure Clay, always happy to crunch more data...

April Auction, Check-ins:

10-noon:        56 
noon-1:         22      (first hour)
1-2:            3

Plant auction, Check-ins:

Before 7        39
7-8             16      (first hour)
8-9             1

Nope, nothing to see here folks.  The vast majority checked in before 
the auctions started, and there was a trickle in the first hour, but 
essentially no stragglers after that.

   - Erik

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Hess, Clay A wrote:

> I am not sure the histogram is complete.  Do we monitor when people show up 
> too?  Because I do know the audience changes over time in both directions.  
> New people show up, other people leave.  Just an observation.
> Clay Hess
> 787 Fuselage Systems Integration Manager and Team Leader
> 425-931-4322
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com <gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com>
> To: GSAS board members and alumni <gsas-board@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Tue Jan 05 10:21:13 2010
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Plant auction
>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Phil Lacefield Jr. wrote:
>
>>>> 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?
>
> I am stating that *I* care how long the auctions are, and that I will not
> participate in a second Saturday auction.  I am not even sure I have the
> stomach to participate in the one in April this year.  I really don't want
> to rehash it, but it's a lot of work, and *not* every member is interested
> in sitting around for 5 hours.
>
> I attribute the increased attendance at the auctions to the increased
> publicity for them, not to the increased hours.  You have to look at the
> attrition over time to really get a good picture of whether folks like
> "more".
>
> Here's a rough histogram of when bidders checked out at the
> April auction:
>
> hour of auction       # of checkouts
>
> 11:00 hour    6
> Noon hour     3
> 1 PM hour     3
> 2 PM hour     13
> 3 PM hour     8
> 4 PM ~ 4:45   16
> stayed to end 24
>
> And in last year's plant auction:
>
> begin - 7:59          4
> 8:00 - 8:59           14
> 9:00-9:43             14
> stayed to end (9:44)  22
>
> Only 1/3 made it until the end last April.  Lots of people trickled out in
> the second half.
>
>   - Erik
>
>

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