Good morning PAS members,
Awesome Monday to eveyrone!
At the PAS meeting, those who purchased *Year in Space Calendars*, the
calendars are in my hands and I believe you should come get them from me.
Many thanks to Steve Palmer for purchasing enough calendars to save us all
$1.
I will have your $1 attached to your calendar for when you pick them up. If
you can not make this meeting, let me know where you will be that I can
have the calendars with me for the next event we can meet up at.
*PAS Swap Meet*: Bring your items for sale for the Silent Auction or the
Garage Sale side of the room.
Swap Meet: When you walk into the meeting room, the *right side of the room*
is the SwapMeet. Bring your items to the table, display them nicely with
all their accessories, and on a piece of paper (i will have paper and pens
availble), write up eveyrthing you know about your item for sale, with a
starting bid. The idea is to have attendees walk up to your item for sale,
and bid on it. They will leave their first name or initials next to their
bid, and once the meeting concludes, the bidding will also conclude and
then the exchange of money for item will happen. The items on this side of
the room stay where they are until the meeting concludes.
Garage Sale: When you walk into the room, the *left side of the room* will
be the for the Garage Sale. These items will be priced and placed on the
table, or near the table, and the idea is it is a Garage Sale setting. So
the owner can stand by their item and bicker on pricing, and once the sale
is made, the item goes to the purchaser, and doesn't have to wait until the
end of the evening to get paid for and picked up. Pay and take it away.
An example of a Garage Sale item might be that you have some extra filters
you want to sell off, but you don't really need them to be bid on. You
price them at $5 each (an example) and when/if someone wants to buy them,
you wheel and deal right then, sell them off right away. And the buyer has
the opportunity to bicker on price, if you want, unless you mark it as
"Price is firm."
An example of a Swap Meet items / Silent Auction is that you bring an item
for sale, let's say it is a pair of binoculars, and you place your piece of
paper with the description of the item, listing all its accessories, on the
table and a starting bid of $20 (for example). Then, during the night,
bidders go to the table and let's say Jason thinks that's a good deal for
$25, so he places his bid of $25 and his name of Jason "Jason $25" on the
page. Then, Thomas comes along and says, I want them and I"m willing to pay
$30, so his bid goes on the page "Thomas $30." Then maybe "Kathy $40." This
goes on until the end of the meeting in which we see that Kathy won the bit
at $40 and then pays the owner of the Binocs and takes them home with her.
The starting bid should be an amount that you are willing to part with the
item for. It shoudln't be so high that no one bids on it, but yet, not too
low that you feel bad about selling them.
There will be a table at the front of the room with items that the proceeds
go to PAS. And a box will be on the table to collect the monies for PAS. On
the honor system, put your donation to PAS in the box and take your item.
Some items that will be up there will be Older Year in Space Calendars that
were purchased, paid for, but never picked up, and some astro photos
donated to PAS by a previous guest speaker. Please donate the amount
requested for these items, and if no price is listed, the donation amount
asked is a minimum of $1. It all goes to PAS, so help the club by donating
a little cash to PAS. If you have items to donate to PAS and want to add to
this table, feel free to and put a price on it if you think PAS should get
a little more than $1 for that donation. Unmarked items will be listed as
$1 donation.
I need, at the meeting, at 6:30pm for set up, some strong gentlemen to help
me rearrange the room.
We want 3 tables along the wall on the left side
and 3 tables along the wall on the right side
I need 2 tables at the front of the room, one along the
wall at the front left (opposite side of the teachers desk) but along the
white board
and one more table at the front of the room at a 90 degree angle maybe
(check with Suzanne on the placement of this table) from the white board
out to the audience. See attached drawing.
Bring a snack to share, or donate to the snack fund.
I appreciate all help I can get.
Remember, we have dinner this night at Chili's prior to the meeting. To
attend you have to RSVP by NOON on Thursday. So, if you are attending, and
so i can put in the reservation, please RVPS with me soon enough that I can
get you a seat at the PAS Table.
Terri, Event Manager
See attached room set up
for where to put your Swap Meet items
and your Garage Sale items, as well
as your donated to PAS items.
And especially see the attachment if you plan
to help me rearrange the room prior to the start of the meeting. Many
thanks to all my helpers!
--
Good friends are like stars. You don't always
see them, but you always know they are there.
Terri Phoenix Astronomical Society <http://www.pasaz.org/> Event Manager
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Meeting Room Layout for Swap Meet.pdf
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