[SJAAboard] suggestions for our next auction

[Robert Armstrong]

Gary,
Obviously, you were not watching me that carefully at the end of the action, 
and you were so irritable that I stopped trying to talk with you about what 
I was trying to do.

Anyway, if you had noticed, I was watching each of the buyers as they picked 
up their items. I did not necessarily accompany them to the item, but I 
watched them go to their purchase.
In  two instances, I redirected persons to the right item, several times I 
partially followed buyers towards their items. I did not see any instances 
of persons scurrying off to take other purchases.
Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Mitchell" <wb6yru at aenet.net>
To: "Business list for SJAA board of directors" <sjaaboard at sjaa.net>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SJAAboard] suggestions for our next auction


> Rich N wrote:
>
>> Dear SJAA Board:
>>
>> One thing I noticed yesterday toward the end of our SJAA auction
>> was the lack of security for the items sold.  While we may have been
>> lucky, once again, it is far too easy for someone to pick up items 
>> someone
>> else has purchased and just walk away.
>
> That's where the runners were supposed to come in.  They weren't
> very effective this year in general.  And did you notice, none of
> them were helping the auctioneer during the auction either.
>
> I suggested to Rob that we didn't do a good enough job before hand
> explaining what to do.  Rob suggested what we really needed was a
> floor boss.  Mike Koop used to do that and he kept everything
> moving smoothly.  Rob or I could do it, but we're already hugely
> loaded down at the registration table.
>
> The auction was pretty much a two-man show, us two at the reg.
> table.  (Not counting the auctioneer, but he works only during
> the auction itself.)  It needs to be a three-man show.  We need
> a floor manager, someone who knows what all needs to be done and
> will run around staying on top of things.
>
> Gary
>
>> *  We need to be more effective in getting a few more SJAA members 
>> involved
>> in running the auction.
>>
>> *  We need to be more careful about controling who is removing items 
>> after
>> the auction, both items sold and items that didn't sell.
>>
>> *  It would help, IMHO, if our people working the auction had some 
>> inexpensive
>> stick on badge to make it easier for buyers, and our own people, to 
>> recognize who
>> should be controling access to sold and unsold items.
>>
>> *  Right after the last item is auctioned off, we should rope off at 
>> least the area
>> containing the smaller items sold to limit access to those items.
>>
>> *  I suggest we have SJAA auction people in the sold item areas so that 
>> they can
>> make sure the right items are picked up the buyers.  The buyer can have 
>> items on
>> their receipt checked off by one of our auction helpers as the buyer 
>> comes up to
>> pick up their items.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>>
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