How to Submit Auction Items
Please read Guidelines carefully: you as the seller have more responsibilities in this kind of auction than in other auctions we've enjoyed at UUCE.
Categories:
Services, Entertainment, Dinners/Food, Cool Stuff, Vacations, Family Fun, Auction Traditions, and "Items too big for the garage sale"
Sellers: SUBMIT this information until June 30, 2009, (bidding starts on June 13th) and in the following order:
(Tips: This is not a "form" so
1. Highlight and Copy the information in the outline below.
1. Click auction09@uueugene.org to create email message window on your computer.
2. Paste the info you just copied into that email message window.
3. Respond to the requests for info (or just write your information in this order).
4.
In your email message, erase (backspace over) angle brackets (after filling in your information and before sending).
5. Verify that this address is in your TO field: auction09@uueugene.org then click Send.
Sellers provide responses to this information (outline):
Category -
Descriptive TITLE -
Further Description - # seats/items, limitations if any, Photos,
Dates/Times, and setting a date/time NOW for group events may work best.
Offered by Donor Name and Phone Number
Minimum Bid per seat $ OR Fixed Cost per "Seat" $ (See** below)
Bidding Closes Monday July 6, 8pm unless seller states otherwise
Seller email address
MOST CURRENT BID -
BIDDER -
[Bidders - when you respond to an offer, click on the Seller's email address, then mention a shortened name of the item you want to bid on, its formal Bid #, the amount you want to bid, and your name and email address. Questions by phone to the Seller are fine, but bidding itself is limited to email.]
** THUS the website could record:
Bid Number #25
One seat at a Recital & Critical Explication of "Jabborwocky"
My home, Xpm on Aug. XX, 2009. No Literature Majors allowed. Maximum 8 people. Refreshments.
Offered by Gil Osgood 484-1180
Bidding: $15.00 per seat, fixed bid: first eight will win a seat at this price,
two seats max
per bidder
Bidding Closes Monday July 6, 2009 at 8pm sharp
Send Bid to: gil's@ddress
Most Current bid: $45.00 for three seats to Person A (and two UU friends)
$30.00 for two seats to Person C (and wife)
$15.00 for one seat to Person D
$30.00 for two seats to Person B (and husb)
(Note that hypothetical Person E who also bid $15 was too late to win a spot at the table, but those with lower incomes are almost guaranteed a spot if they are early enough. And the Seller, seeing how popular his/her item was might consent to offer two whole dates and invite the second batch of bidders to participate in that one.)
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Bid Number #25
One seat at a Recital & Critical Explication of "Jabborwocky"
My home, Xpm on Aug. XX, 2009. No Literature Majors allowed, Maximum 8 people. Refreshments.
Offered by Gil Osgood 484-1180
Bidding: $15.00 per seat, minimum bid: eight highest will win
a seat at this price, three seats
max per bidder
Bidding Closes Monday July 6, 2009 at 8pm sharp
Send Bid to: gil's@ddress
Most Current bids: $60 for two seats to Another Person ($30/seat)
$20 for one seat to Someone Else ($20/seat)
$75 for three seats to Mary Somebody ($25/seat)
$30 for two seats to Someone Else ($15/seat)
(Note how these are the high bids for this event - they are all different. If the winning bids went higher, lower income folks might not be able to participate. If at this lower figure, they perhaps would.)
√√√ If Sellers wish to make changes in their auction item
to favor one method over another, please reply to us by
Friday evening, the 11th. Bidding opens on Saturday the 12th.
√√√ See Guideline #6 for use of Auction Angels
if you will be unavailable for part or all of the Auction.
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Sellers: PLEASE forward your winning bids each day to the auctioneers at
auction09@uueugene.org
Auction Committee will assign a number to your item(s) and upload it. We will also upload bids to the website daily so all bidders can see who is leading in the bidding.
Every day, verify for yourself that your Seller and Bidder information is properly uploaded onto the Auction page.
Both Bidders and Sellers may wish to keep track of their bids on the downloadable and/or printable Auction Log and check in on the website daily to see how the bidding is going. If you use an Auction Angel to help out, be sure to register them at auction09@uueugene.org, and that the Angels know how to calculate the winners.
Bidding opens June 13th, 2009. Last day for adding items to the auction is June 30. Final date for bidding is June 6th at 8pm.
Individual "seats" for any event offering individual places must be priced by seat within the posting by the individual offering the event. The seller can chose to set a fixed price per seat — or a minimum price per seat. The former allows more participants with smaller incomes to participate, the latter may bring in more money for the fundraising event. If selecting competitive bidding, please indicate how the winners will be determined (such as, "the top eight bids will be selected"). If you select a fixed price per seat, then please set a limit of two or three on how many seats one bidder can purchase. (Offering to cater an event is fine, but that offer belongs under the SERVICES category.)
All proceeds go the the UUCE general fund to support church activities.
Questions to: auction09@uueugene.org
Betty Hosokawa, Alex Crider-Phillips - Auctioneers
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