Chattin thread for our 2012 Auction - Chat ere and ask away if ya have any questions

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Yes where is it? 14 mins in and cant find the thread 

[Witchling86]

Help can't find the auction

Panicking ... don't know where it is! 

Me too 

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

Help can't find the auction

Panicking ... don't know where it is! 

[angelinajolly]

Help can't find the auction

[Tiggy's Mum]

Can you post a link to the board where the auction items need to go please? Lots of different threads and child boards dotted around has got me 

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

come on then ... 3:00 ..!!!!!

[Tiggy's Mum]

This site might help with postage costs for larger items:  http://www.parcel2go.com/

I have also used www.interparcel.com and www.parcelmonkey.co.uk in the past 

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

This site might help with postage costs for larger items:  http://www.parcel2go.com/

[Tan]

Aaaaaaaare Ya ready? 

Countdown to Our Annual Auction starting at 3pm Today!! 

There's loads of fantastic goodies from our sponsors      Grab a great bargain for Crimbo!!

Never forgetting the reason we do this and that's to help all the needy furbabes at Paws In Rescue who need our Help to care for the babes that are not as lucky as our own 
So lets make this a great auction for the cats 
 


Hope everyone has tons of fun and i expectin to see loads of
 

Thanks so much  in advance to all who will put up items and all who will be bidding.  without you wonderful lot we couldn't do this for the cats so my heart goes out to you all. 

[Tiggy's Mum]

I bid £5 for the gorgeous Willow! She looks bouffed to perfection there 

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...



I've worked out my auction stuff already and am knocking a bit off the postage that the bidder pays (auctioneers kindly pay to post the stuff they have donated out of their own pocket and then the bidder pays postage too which is an extra bonus to the amount raised) to try and encourage bidding - as an example who wants to pay £2.70 postage for some ping pong balls (very light, comes in the 0g-750g bracket, but thicker than a DVD so would cost £2.70 to post). By reducing the postage 'paid' by the bidder it will hopefully encourage more bids 

As for a start price, again this is just my personal opinion, but 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 (I believe we have one donated by SureFlap again this year), 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!

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Willow is gorgeous are you sure she is not in the auction 

Starting bids dont have to exist and usually dont on small value items, for more expensive things its really up to you, £1, 5 etc You just need to be sure the starting isnt too high and putting off peeps from bidding.

[Puffball (Louise)]

Been snapping away (rather inexpertly) on my new phone trying to get pics for my auctions but they are all way oversize so i'm using imageshack to try and link them... this is a test of a non auction related pic of Willow



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Guess I'll have to package up my items and hit the post office to find out postal costs of the bulkier ones but how do you decide on starting bids? I had a wee shopping trip at lunch time to a place that sells some really cool cat fridge magnets which I'm hoping you guys will love

Edit - Yay the pic worked

[Tiggy's Mum]

Oh yes, less is most definitely more with a Purrs style auction

I'm on my phone at the mo but will try and track down an example thread when I'm on a proper computer!

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

Very good point Gill about keeping the bids going in small increments.   The best part of the auction is the    

[Tiggy's Mum]

Zara looks positively overworked 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Sorry  I have duplicated some of the info in Tans Chrissy auction post, I was going backwards thro my unread posts as is my want 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Oh yes and make sure you give Zara the credit when you post the items for bidding 

The auction is great fun and certainly the fighting talk.........Like 1p from me..............got you LOL

For newbies I should just mention maybe  that cos the auction lasts two weeks items need to be drifted on over the two weeks so we nave new things every day and 1p bids are often the way to go until the last few days cos we like the fun to continue until the last mad day, epsecially the last mad hour.

You know a bit like ebay except much crazier cos I think we had about 200 items last year and they all finish at exactly the same time and like ebay, the Purrs clock will be the decider as to who gets the winning bid in time by the last second, one second too late and you lost it mayte 

Maybe Helen can dig out a good link to one of the really funny fighting threads from last year?

[Witchling86]

My friends cat Zara helping us make my contribution to the auction in fact Zara has said she is taking all credit for these two items 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Roll on the 18th  

We've been chatting a bit here too...

http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,41812.80.html

[Tan]

Think the title says it all   

You cant chit chat on the bidding threads as they are just for fightin  so this is the place for all ya chattin and questions about our 2012 Auction. 

Chat away and if ya need any help on anything just holla