[Deptheads] Auction

[Eric M. Aldrich I]

I've added Dean Taylor to the mailing list. Dean is a veteran of the PolyCon mailing list, so nothing here will shock him :-)

Our goal is to finish the auction by 1 pm. This time that did not happen. Slips are available starting Friday! And we started on time, sorta -- blame Karl for bringing his lots up at 11:05 or so (thankfully he only had 7 lots) ;-)

I don't know if this was an aberration or not. The place was packed, so we might have to move (though I think Gamex won't be as bad, so we should be fine then).

It also hurt that reg had to close down early due to Tracy having to leave -- that hosed Chris and myself at the end and made Tanya stuck with Keith which meant she couldn't do some of the stuff she does at the end to help clean up. 

The two combined affected the dealer room, payouts of all sorts, and then teardown. We made it out of our room at 6 pm. Thankfully a couple of people stepped up and worked their tails off at the end (that'd be Neil, Dean, Eric N, whom despite his being under doctors orders to take it easy dealt with the truck on both ends, and Mark who had a kid in the hospital and still came out to help us unload at the storage unit) so we got the truck loaded and to the storage unit before it closed.

Starting earlier might need to happen. I can take this up with Alfonzo. I guess we're just getting old -- I remember these things going on for 4 hours or more for several years before ebay -- and we were fine then.

Eric

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:44:59PM -0800, XH - RJ Held wrote:
> Or could it be moved earlier?   Slips available Sunday, drop off 8-9:30am
> Monday  Starts at 9:30 over by noon?
> 
> No matter what the limiting lots would help. If the auction runs long, it effects dealer room, reimbursement, dealer dollar payouts, etc.  
> 
> RJ  
> 
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 16:33, Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it is time for multiple auctions again. Or perhaps another type of auction for some games? Perhaps a silent auction for mini sets? Perhaps a blind-bid auction for some board games? These could be fun events.
> > 
> > On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:21 PM, "Eric M. Aldrich I" <ealdrich at penguinlust.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I should add, the whole reason the auction was moved to Sunday night was that it was dying. It's not dying at all now, and is in fact alive and well. It's an anchor event, and we need to have one on Monday. Mega board games do not appeal to everyone.
> >> 
> >> What we do need to do is limit the lots. 200 is about all we can take. Paul Tevis sucked up 51 this last time and Alfonzo 46. While I don't think it will be as ugly at Gamex (Paul swears that's the last big pile for a long while), we had a 3-hour marathon this last time and it was tough on all of us who sat through the whole thing. We did try to break it up by game type this time just to see how that worked.
> >> 
> >> Eric
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:07:00PM -0800, Eric Burgess wrote:
> >>> Big fan of it going back to a nighttime event. Let Monday be MEGA events and a big shopping day.
> >>> 
> >>> On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:24 PM, XH nday- RJ Held <strategicon at the1ring.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> And for my next can of worms:
> >>>> I also had comments about the auction going back to a late night auction.  I can think of several NO reasons, but there are some yes, including not losing all those people during XH hours, and eliminating the dealer dollar hold that happens until after the auction. People would have no reason not to shop right away Monday. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thoughts?
> >>>> 
> >>>> RJ
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