The list of items that will be offered in our fundraising auction Saturday evening will be mailed to all registered convention attendees this week. It will be a pdf, so anyone should be able to open it. Keep an eye on your in box for an email with an attachment from Bill Thompson.
We’ve never held our auction after dinner before, so this will be a first. Given that auctions aren’t allowed in the public library, and our other afternoon will be spent on a tour bus, the time to try it became now!
Anyone registered for the convention is pre-registered in the auction. You’ll be able to pick up a bidder number that night.
We’ll also want to make some decisions that night. For example, a dinner table might be a challenging place to keep pieces you win (“Shall I set this on your dessert plate, or in the butter?”), so we may use the display tables to hold things instead of putting them immediately in your hands. We’ve also been offered a few donations that were not incorporated into the auction database in time. Let’s stay flexible and not rule out finding a way to make them available while we’re all together.
And lastly, payment options. The Oz Club is in between long-term auctioneers as Bill steps down after 20 years(!). Jim Rutter has graciously stepped up for this summer, but is not signing up for the long haul. One side effect is that as of this writing, we’ve not found a way to accept direct credit card payments. Cash, checks, and PayPal payments are currently our only options that night.
Questions? Email OzConvention@OzClub.org.
