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Me, an idea? Amazing.
I've been mulling over the auctions I've observed or participated in, and got to thinking, which is how people tell me ideas happen.
Often, our generous members bid more than the auctioned item is worth in the open market, precisely because they are generous members and it's for the good of AW. However, that means that members on a budget--and that's a lot of us--are priced right out of the auction.
What would you all think of a sale rather than an auction, where someone agrees to provide up to a certain number of the same item, all to be sold for some affordable price? (I was thinking somewhere between five and ten dollars.) That way, members of limited means could still get something at a nice price and feel that they, too, are helping to support AW.
Food comes to mind--a batch of cookies, caramel corn, toffee, etc. split several ways isn't much more effort, really.
A small or simple handicraft, for the handy and crafty, might be do-able in multiples. Put on some good music and make yourself a little one-person assembly line, and these tasks can go pretty fast. Trust me, I once made 36 refastenable dolly diapers in an evening.
Gently used books might be nice. It wouldn't be hard to put together a Mystery Readers' Mystery Book package.
Photographic prints have been popular at our auctions for a reason. We've got people who do some great work. Is it a lot harder to pick one image and make five prints than to make one? (I dunno.)
What else might we provide in multiples that we'd gladly just sell for a low cost?
Maryn, who looks silly in this thinking cap
I've been mulling over the auctions I've observed or participated in, and got to thinking, which is how people tell me ideas happen.
Often, our generous members bid more than the auctioned item is worth in the open market, precisely because they are generous members and it's for the good of AW. However, that means that members on a budget--and that's a lot of us--are priced right out of the auction.
What would you all think of a sale rather than an auction, where someone agrees to provide up to a certain number of the same item, all to be sold for some affordable price? (I was thinking somewhere between five and ten dollars.) That way, members of limited means could still get something at a nice price and feel that they, too, are helping to support AW.
Food comes to mind--a batch of cookies, caramel corn, toffee, etc. split several ways isn't much more effort, really.
A small or simple handicraft, for the handy and crafty, might be do-able in multiples. Put on some good music and make yourself a little one-person assembly line, and these tasks can go pretty fast. Trust me, I once made 36 refastenable dolly diapers in an evening.
Gently used books might be nice. It wouldn't be hard to put together a Mystery Readers' Mystery Book package.
Photographic prints have been popular at our auctions for a reason. We've got people who do some great work. Is it a lot harder to pick one image and make five prints than to make one? (I dunno.)
What else might we provide in multiples that we'd gladly just sell for a low cost?
Maryn, who looks silly in this thinking cap
I'm not getting in that argument.