Great idea Bernie,

 

I am planning to bring some stuff for door prizes but I like the idea of using them for the auction.  I have a few Geocaching 101 t-shirts, a couple of ammo boxes and some other stuff too.

 

I've been to several 'silent' auctions where you have a sheet of paper by each item and people walk around and write their name and how much they will bid on the sheet.  You can bid on any item as often as you like so what happens is you usually have a person standing by something he/she wants as the ending time approaches and counters any other higher bidders.  This keeps going on until a set time and then the highest bidder wins it.  The nice thing about this is that it eliminates the time spent that one person has to take to auction off one item at a time.

 

Either door prizes or auction items, I'll bring them.

-----Original Message-----
From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bernie
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:43 AM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Picnic Auction

-   Are we still having the auction? As we discussed before, it will put a few bucks into our kitty at absolutely NO COST to us. I would be willing to take charge, but don't expect too much. I have a very informal plan in mind. Lay your donations on a specified table and have a "secretary" log the items in or better yet, log it in yourself.. During the auction, the secretary makes a note (on the sheet where the items were logged in) of who purchased each item and for how much. After the auction is complete, we collect our "winnings". Suggested time to hold this auction would be right after we eat. If it's a go, bring any item (does not have to be cache related) that you are willing to donate. Suggestions are: all types of cache containers, items that could be placed into the cache boxes, fishing and hiking items, advertising items or trinkets (bundled up in to individual baggies). In short, anything that is collecting dust around the house. These are only my thoughts and nothing is gospel. Let me know what you think.  Bernie the Happykraut.
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