HOW THINGS WORK FOR THE PURRS GRAND CHRISTMAS AUCTION 2013 This year the auction is for
Feral & Stray Foundation and our target is £1800
That's a lot of money to aim for but we have achieved this and over in the last years and even though times are hard we hope to do it again
This is our eighth Annual Christmas Auction, the first was on organised on Cat Chat way back in 2006, where has the time gone?
Last year we raised an astounding amount
and we hope we can do the same this year with loads of hard work from bidders and the Purrs Staff who I have to thank for their hard work
All the Auction Team are amazed each year at all your generosity Purrs peeps and for this we humbly thank you
I know times are hard for so many but if you are able, please help and support the auction. You can either auction items or be a bidder or both!
It will be great fun as usual with loads of madness over the two weeks and every little bit counts to help the Feral & Stray Foundation help the homeless cats in UK.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUCTION The auction will start on
Sunday 17th November at 1500 hrs and close on
Sunday 1st December at 2000 hrs which allows time for all payments to be made to Feral & Stray Foundation before Christmas and a quick sprint to the Post Office to easily catch the last post before Christmas.
HOW TO AUCTION All postable items or services offered (umm nowt "dodgey" services please
) can be put up for auction. No items can be listed until 17 November at 1500hrs.........when I will say open for bidding or some such phrase
Please spread out items over the whole length of the auction so we have new items coming on each day
Everyone with items to be auctioned, please start a new thread under the 2013 Christmas Auction section (a separate new thread for each item) as follows:
1. The subject of the thread needs to be the name of the item for auction.
2. In the message box you need to give a clear description of the item, with a picture if possible (items sell better with a pic!), the start price if there is one and any other useful information!!
3. Staring Bid £ is optional. -If something is likely to get lots of bids then starting it off at 1p or 99p won't hurt but if something is a bit more specialist eg a microchip cat flap, that might only get one or two people bidding on it so best to start the price off at a realistic level so it doesn't end up going for 99p!
4. It is suggested that where it is not actually a cat related item you come up with a devious and witty way of linking it to cats just for fun but not necessary
5. Post your thread and that's it!
Here's a link to last years auction section so ytou can see how things are done
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/board,137.0.htmlRemember dear peeps that the aim is to sell sell sell..........ummmmmm did I steal that
..............and get as much money as possible for those needy cats that aint as lucky (yet) as our own.
The auctioneers kindly need to to cover the postage and packing costs of the items to be sent to the winning bidders.
Thanks very much.
Royal Mail Postage rates UK prices for each size & weight bracket -see below tables
To work out how much stuff costs to post have a look at this chart - if it's from 0.5cm up to 2.5cm (approx as thick as a DVD wrapped in a jiffy bag) it's a large letter, if it's thicker than 2.5cm it's a packet etc...
This link will take you to a postage calculator from the Post Office website
http://www.royalmail.com/price-finderA certificate of posting must be obtained for any items where the original monetary value is under £41 and it goes by letter or packet post.
With a higher original monetary value, a recorded signed for service and insurance to cover the value should be used. Sadly there is no longer a one price fee for recorded items. Each recorded item has it own price depending on size and weight as follows. (it might be cheaper to use Hermes below!)
If it's over 1000g (1KG) in weight there is no 2nd class post or if it's even bigger or heavier or for some parcels a courier like Hermes is cheaper than Royal Mail and you can get prices from Hermes website -
https://www.myhermes.co.uk Prices start from £4.20 up to 2KG weight.
HOW TO BID Once the auctioneers start threads with the auction items, the bidding can commence as soon as an item is posted. You bid by making a reply post on the thread. (we welcome fighting
and we have excellent smileys in our [more] smileys section for this ie
) Of course you must bid a higher amount than the bid posted before!
The highest bid at
2000hrs ( using the Purrs site clock) on 1st December will be the winner of the item!
All bidders undertake to pay the full amount to Purrs in our Hearts on behalf of Feral & Stray Foundation, and on receipt of the money the item will be dispatched first or second class or Hermes/courier so that it arrives before Christmas, subject to any snail-like posties!
On
1 December at 2000 hrs when the auction ends, there will be instructions on how to send your money to Purrs in our Hearts and how to contact the Auctioneer with your address for your winning item.
That's it!
At the end of each 2nd day we will summarize the top bids for each item and the current winning bidder on each thread or in the best way we can do it
there can be
NO bumping of auction threads cos that's what we do so that all items get the same fair chance.
Not only is this a serious auction for a great cause but it is of course total madness and we expect everyone to act accordingly,
so loads of fun can be had by all!
Good luck to everyone, have a great time, lets see some great items up for auction and may the best woman win! Oooops did I say woman? I meant person , of course
Any questions Just ask in our chattin thread -
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,43951.0.html as this one is for information only.
We have some wonderful items again for your cat and cat lover gifts for Crimbo from our marvellous sponsors (thanks so much to our Sam for all the
badgering contacting the sponsors
) so I am sure you will be grabbing a bargain and helping the needy furbabes at the same time
Lets hope we can raise an amazing amount of money again this year for the needy homeless cats and thank you so much in advance to everyone who auctions and bids.
