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My H2H league has its live draft on Saturday, March 31st. We are spread out throughout the world, so we have to do it online and we use a group AOL chat room. We have done this for years and it works. I'm the commissioner, but I'm also the owner. I've served as the auctioneer each year and it sort of works. If I'm bidding for a player some other owner who isn't bidding will jump in and take over for that player. But the problem is that after the bidding is done for every player, I'm also tracking that player and team in my notes so that I can later copy it to the league site.
I would like to "hire" an auctioneer for the day. I'm asking a lot, I know. The auction will start at 10am ET, but we need you to be online at least 15 minutes before that. We do take a lunch break of about 30 minutes about three hours in, and occasional 5 minute breaks as needed, but when all is said and done we won't be finished until around 5pm ET. Actually, that's when I just cut things off cuz I'm too tired to keep going. But 9:45am to 5pm ET is when you would be needed to be on hand.
What do you get for giving up your Saturday for a bunch of strangers with no benefit to yourself other than observing a "mock" auction, as it were? I mean, if you did this in a hall with a bunch of guys sitting around, at the very least you'd get pizza and beer, right? Well, I'll do this for you:
1. I'll pay you $100 for your time that day. 7 hours, 100 bucks, it helps.
2. I'll buy you a $20 Pizza Hut gift card (or add $20 to your cash if you hate Pizza Hut).
3. I'll buy you the 1-month only membership in the Beer-of-the-Month club (or $34.95 in more cash if you don't drink, or I'll buy you a Pepsi or Coke gift certificate instead).
$100, pizza and beer. It's my attempt to compensate you for your time. Interested? Well, here is what you need to agree to up front:
1. You have to be available on March 31st from 9:45am to 5pm ET. That might not be so easy with so many of us drafting that day.
2. You have to have (or get temporarily) an AOL IM handle.
3. You must have a reliable Net connection. I'm going to have you be the one to track the owners and invite people back into the group chat room if they drop out. You are going to be running the show, so you have to be reliable.
4. You have to be able to keep up a consistent "Going Once", "Going Twice", and "SOLD" timing (typing, of course). The whole point of this is that I'm hoping that by having a separate auctioneer doing nothing but running the bidding, we can move things along more quickly than otherwise. That means it's up to you to keep things moving along, and doing so in a fair and consistent manner. I would prefer someone who has served as a league auctioneer before.
5. I need you to write down the bid results all day, to have a master list of the auction results. I'll be noting things too, but you will have the official list which you will email me when the auction is over.
6. If there are disputes over bidding, I will try to sort things out, but as the auctioneer you will be the final arbiter of results. The impartial judge, so to speak. Can you handle that?
Think about it. If you can guarantee that you will show up on March 31st, and you can commit to stay all day, and you want the fun of observing another league's auction action, and you want the cash, pizza, and beer, send me a Private Message here. If someone I know well volunteers, I'll just go with the person I know rather than the person I don't, but I will consider anyone who will be reliable. If for some reason I get lots of responses (I don't expect that), well I'll just choose the person who seems best for the situation. Thanks!
I would like to "hire" an auctioneer for the day. I'm asking a lot, I know. The auction will start at 10am ET, but we need you to be online at least 15 minutes before that. We do take a lunch break of about 30 minutes about three hours in, and occasional 5 minute breaks as needed, but when all is said and done we won't be finished until around 5pm ET. Actually, that's when I just cut things off cuz I'm too tired to keep going. But 9:45am to 5pm ET is when you would be needed to be on hand.
What do you get for giving up your Saturday for a bunch of strangers with no benefit to yourself other than observing a "mock" auction, as it were? I mean, if you did this in a hall with a bunch of guys sitting around, at the very least you'd get pizza and beer, right? Well, I'll do this for you:
1. I'll pay you $100 for your time that day. 7 hours, 100 bucks, it helps.
2. I'll buy you a $20 Pizza Hut gift card (or add $20 to your cash if you hate Pizza Hut).
3. I'll buy you the 1-month only membership in the Beer-of-the-Month club (or $34.95 in more cash if you don't drink, or I'll buy you a Pepsi or Coke gift certificate instead).
$100, pizza and beer. It's my attempt to compensate you for your time. Interested? Well, here is what you need to agree to up front:
1. You have to be available on March 31st from 9:45am to 5pm ET. That might not be so easy with so many of us drafting that day.
2. You have to have (or get temporarily) an AOL IM handle.
3. You must have a reliable Net connection. I'm going to have you be the one to track the owners and invite people back into the group chat room if they drop out. You are going to be running the show, so you have to be reliable.
4. You have to be able to keep up a consistent "Going Once", "Going Twice", and "SOLD" timing (typing, of course). The whole point of this is that I'm hoping that by having a separate auctioneer doing nothing but running the bidding, we can move things along more quickly than otherwise. That means it's up to you to keep things moving along, and doing so in a fair and consistent manner. I would prefer someone who has served as a league auctioneer before.
5. I need you to write down the bid results all day, to have a master list of the auction results. I'll be noting things too, but you will have the official list which you will email me when the auction is over.
6. If there are disputes over bidding, I will try to sort things out, but as the auctioneer you will be the final arbiter of results. The impartial judge, so to speak. Can you handle that?
Think about it. If you can guarantee that you will show up on March 31st, and you can commit to stay all day, and you want the fun of observing another league's auction action, and you want the cash, pizza, and beer, send me a Private Message here. If someone I know well volunteers, I'll just go with the person I know rather than the person I don't, but I will consider anyone who will be reliable. If for some reason I get lots of responses (I don't expect that), well I'll just choose the person who seems best for the situation. Thanks!
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