Now that it's all done, what did you think of the Grex auction? It brought in about $1100 of income to Grex. It gave a lot of people who don't do JCC sales a way to support Grex. Also, I thought it was fun. I suppose it goes without saying that anything that brings $1100 in to Grex is a Good Thing. I'd like to know what we can do to make the next auction even better. Did you join the auction conference? If so, thanks! If not, what would have convinced you to go look at it? If you joined the auction conference, did you donate and/or bid on anything? If you did, thanks much! If not, what would have convinced you to do it? Thanks again to everybody who donated something to the auction and everybody who bid on things in the auction. A special big thanks to Mark Conger, for doing lots of extra treasurer work, to Rob Argy for dealing with lots of auctioned-off stuff from Grex's JCC pile, to Jan Wolter, for keeping running totals and other statistics, and extra-big thanks to Rob Henderson, for many things, including doing an amazing job of keeping track of which items were available, closing, or sold.31 responses total.
(This item is now linked from coop 105 to auction 79.)
I believe that this conference was run just fine as it as. I had only a little trouble actually receiving the item I bid on, and donating was easy. Though I do think it might be better if merely entering the item of donation were permissible.
No more group items ??? those were confusing. Maybe I'd have donated some money if I had some money to donate. But I'd be more likely to buy a membership if I did. Stil I thought it as run pretty well, and I'm glad it masde so much money, and I think you should definitely do it again next year.
The auction was Great! I just wish I'd had something cool to donate. Thanks to Valerie and Robh for doing this. :)
I didn't join, 'cause I thought it was tacky.
I missed it, since I was catching up on other conferences. All the things I would have bid on were sold by the time I caught up. I'll definitely tune in for the next one!
Re 3: Definitely! Having one item with a bunch of Stuff was confusing. Next time we'll put the Stuff into separate items.
I liked it. Unfortunately, I didn't have anything cool to donate, but I bid on lots of things (all of which I got outbidded on, meaning that I was able to increase the amount of money that went to Grex without actually having to pay anything. Cool!).
Heh. I still have money to pay . . . A copule hundred dollars, I think. (Yipes!)
ooooh, thakxx for the reminder .. ahve to go read auction again. from what i remember, it was great!! thankxx to all who kept reading ...
hmmmm, missed a thing or two by my absence and a +$0.50 late bid that was let stand. oh, well.
I still owe $7.51 for a book, but paid all else.
Hmm, I participated!! And will be going up for my week in WVa this fall sometime, I hope! Though I didn't send in the rest of my payment for my other items yet--too much else going on and I forgot til just now. I'll see if I can find the address yet again [I still owe $31.50] and assume I will get my remaining items after I send in my $$. Sorry about the delay!!
The address to send payments to is:
Make your check payable to Cyberspace Communications and
send it to:
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Thanks!
It was great. The group items were hard to follow. It was fun, and I would have bid on an XT if Steve had put it up. ;) The stuff doesn't have to be cool in your eyes. Someone will want it...
true, true. I enjoyed following it.. saw a few things I would have bid on, but got there too late. oh well. I'll have to keep up on things better next time.. There will be a next time, right? Oh, a suggestion for group items: put each thing for sale in it's own seperate item, even if you have two of one thing. better to have a few more items to read than having to try to sort all of them out...
I think multiple identical things in the same item works fine. Lots of people would be confused by separate items, accidentally getting two of them when they only wanted to be sure to get one, and if the users followed the opitmum strategy (always placing your bid in the item with the lowest current high bid), then it would end up being almost exactly the same as a single item, only more difficult to follow.
I'm still waiting on confirmation of someone's payment, sos I can ship the item he won to himm.
I'm waiting on several payments for these games that are still sitting here in my living room.
We need to sit down with the various lists and figure out who still needs to send in money for which items....
i JUST heard fro freida ... i'm guessing i wil send the pics back to her even though someone wanted to see them first ... oh, well.
Yup! Freida finally made it back after being in MD working on the mural for 6 weeks! Robh, have your sis give me a ring or write me a letter or email me about what kind of painting she would like to have. Or she could send me several photos which could be incorporated into a painting...remember to tell her that I do not do people yet! Otherwise, anything else is okay. Denise, please feel free to let me know when you would like your week's stay...I'm looking forward to it! I thought the auction was run really well and I was happy I could donate and purchase stuff to help out grex. I agree that there should be no multiple listings...like with the books. Each item should be seperate...yet, I also agree with janc, that like items should be listed in the same item. I had lots of fun participating in the auction! BTW, robh, your sister could look at my paintings on the web...nephi scanned some of them in for me and you can see them at http://mike.accessus.net/pics/freida If anyone does look at them, you will have to let me know what you think! GREAT JOB on the GREAT GREX AUCTION! Again, thanks!
Freida! welcome back. I looked at a few of Mike's scans. Those are big scans. i didn't have time to d/l too many, but I really liked the 3-d cinder block effect that I saw in #20. Cool. What an interesting treatment.
I looked at a few. My impression: nice artwork, but the photographer needs to learn about lighting and glare.
I think those are scans of pictures frieda took. I don't think she is a professional photographer, but I also think she was in part trying to capture the reflections. One of the aquatic murals is on the wall of a swimming pool, so there are reflections off the water that dance across it in wave patterns, which frieda thought was a neat effect.
all the d/l scans failed although the failure was nto realized until the images were opened after the d/l.
(Sorry scans were so big. I did that so there would be more bits to work with if they ever had to be altered, which is something I though was imminent. They do show *lots* of detail otherwise lost, though . . . )
The ones I looked at looked good to me.....
They were beautiful scans. I think the lighting needed work, though; the internal flash on an SLR just isn't up to big jobs or shiny surfaces.
to d/l i'll have to use a less loaded b0x than grex.
<nephi topples over laughing at the thought of someone considering Grex as a site to download those several megabytes worth of images> You *would* have to have some patience to download those to Grex. 8^) They load pretty quickly from a T1 though . . .
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