Anthrocon 2009 Charity Auction/Raffle Information (3/09)
Anthrocon 2009 is coming, July 2-5th! Anthrocon's selected charity this year is the Animal Rescue League Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (http://www.animalrescue.org/cms/name/Wildlife+Center). If you would like to donate art or merchandise to the Anthrocon Charity Auction/Raffle, please follow the steps below:
1. Visit Anthrocon 2009's homepage for convention details (http://www.anthrocon.org).
2. Review the latest Anthrocon 2009 Charity Auction FAQ and rules on the Anthrocon webpage in the Events>Charity Auction [FAQ]>Auction Rules section.
3. Contact me at to confirm your participation.
This year's event will be updated and improved from prior years:
- The event will consist of both a raffle and an auction. The auction will be the same format as previous years, but will be reserved for higher-ticket items, and thus shorter. The raffle will be for all other items and will involve inexpensive, purchaseable tickets that can be submitted toward any raffle item. The winners of the raffle drawings will be posted at the charity's table on Sunday.
- The donations display for both auction and raffle items will be at the charity's location in the Dealers Room to make it easier for dealers and artists to make donations and which will be expanded to consist of multiple tables.
- The charity auction will be held in the convention center.
- Uncle Kage will return to auctioneer.
If you have any questions about the Anthrocon 2009 Charity Auction, you can also send them to for a prompt reply.
Hope to hear from you!
The auction has gone over two hours each year and has been physicially exhausting for the auctioneers, increasingly boring for many of the bidders waiting for their item to come up, and more and more difficult to fit on the event schedule. We're hoping to bring it down to an hour or so.
While the plans for the raffle will still result in a drawing for each item, you will be able to tilt the chances in your favor by submitting as many tickets as you want for any individual items. You can buy and submit one or a hundred. My current thoughts are to make them really cheap, like $1 each, but the concept is still evolving. An item that has a hard time garnering the $5 minimum bid in the auction may be more appealing to toss a $1 ticket at in the raffle.
In the end, it may result in you being able to get the raffle items for less than you would at auction. An item may raise $100 in tickets, but you could win it by having only put 20 tickets in and having spent $20.
There's also precedent for success since FA: United also holds a raffle which has worked well for them.
I hope that works out; personally, I'd rather have a longer auction to at least have a better shot at items I wanted vs leaving it to blind luck
Ron