OVAS Giant Auction 2016

[daworldisblack]

Great job organizing guys - it was a blast helping out again as an Auctioneer. Mad props to the other auctioneer Rob for keeping at it after no sleep the night before! I came home with some stuff even though I promised myself I wouldn't and looks like most people got some good stuff as well!

[sanny]

Well organized, lots of beautiful fish, plants and decor. I truley enjoyed it along with my sister who came with me and set up her very first aquarium.

Also, big thanks to Limmer (Peter) for being so helpful when I had a couple bags leaking and for providing me a box for tranporting my stuff.

[fischkopp]

Glad to see the positive response. Thanks everyone!


Some fun facts for this years auction:

657 items were registered, not the 1000+ items we had 10 years ago, but 7.5% more than the previous year.

Sales prices are up 25% compared to 2015! The average price per lot was $9.14.

Only 15 items didn't sell (11 of them had a minimum bid), 48 sold for minimum bid.

The majority of lots were fish with 317 items (48.2%). They fetched an average price/bag over $10, with the highest bid going for $44 - a discus.

Plants contributed 154 items (23.4%), averaging at a whooping $7.60 a bag. A large java fern got the crown at $28.

Dry good item made up about 20% of the auction, they also account for 80% of the not sold items - with the remaining unsold items being fish bags with a minimum bid >$2.

We had 33 vendors registered at the auction. Unfortunately, we didn't do a good job at tracking how many showed up to buy items, but we ran out of the 100 bidder card that were prepared. We better print some more next year!

Cheers,
Robert Hemp
Auction Chair

[limmer]

Here are a few Pictures from the auction.

Fluval Raffle Prizes.

Raffle Sales

Auctioneers

Buyer

Crowd

Table Items

More Table Items

Kitchen

[zenins]

Good to see the photos