Quarter Auction

Well we experienced our first "Quarter Auction" last night. What a trip that was. The local Direct Marketing chapter held a benefit for Breast Cancer Research and we decided to see what it was all about.

You arrive and pay your$2 admission fee, buy door prize tickets and then check out all the items being "auctioned" off. There are 4 sections of the evening and all of the vendors donated prizes. You are supposed to figure out which one you really want and get ready to "bid".

You don't really "bid" you just have to throw your quarters in a bucket to take a chance of getting the prize. If they call your number you get the prize, if they don't....OH WELL....more quarters to the event.

We were lucky enough to get two of the items...better than some who didn't get anything and worse than some whose number seemed to be called over and over.

$40.00 later we were hoping to win a door prize....NO LUCK. Including our dinner the evening was an eighty dollar night.

It was fun, but you learn a lot your first event. There are things I would do differently next time. We did get to pass out a few Dayton Chocolatier cards and maybe next time we will be better prepared to push our own business.

If you get the chance to go to a Quarter Auction, take a roll of quarters and have a good time.