gatordad
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My kids go to a private school, and they were having a fund raiser silent auction, dinner thing, for some school improvements.
Both my wife and I are active and involved at the school, so I converted a nice cocktail game to a 60 in 1, game was in 9.9 condition, really nice all the way around and donated it to the school for the auction.
I was really worried because of the limited exposure the event had that it would pull what it was worth, so I made a deal with the principle to buy it back at 600 (basically what I had into it) if the bids weren't there.
We arrived a little late and it was at 450 so I placed my 600 bid and drank, talked and had dinner.
With about an hour left on the auctions the Principle ran across the room and said to me did you see what its at now?
I walked over and it was at 1600, with the final 10 minutes of bidding there was a crowd around the game with all the women dragging the husbands to look at it.
I'm happy that I did that I feel great that it pulled that kind of cash for the school.
Final winning bid 2600
Had to share.
Both my wife and I are active and involved at the school, so I converted a nice cocktail game to a 60 in 1, game was in 9.9 condition, really nice all the way around and donated it to the school for the auction.
I was really worried because of the limited exposure the event had that it would pull what it was worth, so I made a deal with the principle to buy it back at 600 (basically what I had into it) if the bids weren't there.
We arrived a little late and it was at 450 so I placed my 600 bid and drank, talked and had dinner.
With about an hour left on the auctions the Principle ran across the room and said to me did you see what its at now?
I walked over and it was at 1600, with the final 10 minutes of bidding there was a crowd around the game with all the women dragging the husbands to look at it.
I'm happy that I did that I feel great that it pulled that kind of cash for the school.
Final winning bid 2600
Had to share.



