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My guild has a silent auction every 2 years and it is very sucessful with small items like quilted table runners, pot holders, place mats. Pillow cases and aprons do well and quilted totes and bags also. It seems like every one likes small items for gifts.
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Originally Posted by gertz
(Post 5597641)
I am donating one for a silent auction and we are allowed to put the value of the quilt and donation is tax deductible. I am putting $300.00 as the value and we shall see what happend.
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
(Post 5597509)
Aren't we funny sometimes? We're willing to spend $100 on materials and 40 or more hours on a 'donation guilt' - but we aren't willing to write a check out for $50 to the same organization.
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Originally Posted by quiltingshorttimer
(Post 5597565)
Well, I think I've come up with a way to handle all this--my church is having a regular auction and I'm donating a quilt--but I also plan to bid on it at least at the amount that I know it cost to make/quilt. I plan to claim the material and quilting amount on my taxes for charity and feel my labor is my "work of love" and I won't mind bringing home my own quilt if I actually win it! But with regular auctions, I know that sometimes that bigger bid prompts others to also go higher if they really want it--which is what I hope happens!
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Originally Posted by bakermom
(Post 5596211)
well then i guess i'm "stupid" for putting charity above my ego
Let's say someone hires a band to put on a concert. That person says to the charity, "you can have all the proceeds of the concert." The concert cost, let's say $5000 for the band and the venue. We haven't even added in the cost of promotion, which was only about a month prior to the concert. Not enough time. Anyway, the ticket sales were under a thousand dollars. So the concert goes in the hole over $4000; the promoter, who wanted to benefit the charity, was a nice guy, but the charity would have been better served by the $5000 instead of the few hundred that they gained. I know, because I am an officer of that charity. This is a true story. |
Originally Posted by bearisgray
(Post 5597509)
Aren't we funny sometimes? We're willing to spend $100 on materials and 40 or more hours on a 'donation guilt' - but we aren't willing to write a check out for $50 to the same organization.
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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
(Post 5596918)
I feel a whole lot the same way. Plus people that couldn't otherwise afford to pay full price for a lovely, hand made item get a chance to own something nice and help out a cause at the same time.
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Maybe you could put a quilt in with a "reserve". If I were to ever donate a quilt again, I would do that. Some, I would have gladly bought back, rather than see them essentially given away for sooooo much less than they are worth. Live and learn. Think of it as spending $300 to have them get back $75. Plus I can't imagine that if you were willing to spend several hundred on a quilt, the charity wouldn't rather have that than a fraction of that! Up to you.
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The simplest way for a group to handle a silent auction is to allow a starting bid. If someone spent $125 making an item, they ought to be allowed to ask that the $125 be the opening bid. If no bids above that, then the item should return to the giver.
Some items I make wouldn't have a starting bid, but the angel pillow (which I bid $5 on myself and got back) had a $9 pillow form in it. And that does not count the fabric & time. |
Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
(Post 5599144)
The simplest way for a group to handle a silent auction is to allow a starting bid. If someone spent $125 making an item, they ought to be allowed to ask that the $125 be the opening bid. If no bids above that, then the item should return to the giver.
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