TOTC Guernseys - If everyone here gives me a dollar..

[desredandwhite]

Good question Nicko - Mike and I were discussing this earlier today... It certainly doesn't say anywhere if the money is going to the club or not... Probably the usual "improving player facilities" thing

(I would also accept "all proceeds to be donated to the 'improve the quality of SCG catering' Fund" )

[robbieando]

It goes to the club. These things are so popular because the club stand to make a huge amount of cash. St Kilda made a $60,000 profit on their TOTC, while the Bulldogs made $200,000.

So if on average each jumper went of $3000 the club will make over $70,000. The dinner will pull in another $50,000. The jumpers will be presented to the players who make the TOTC so they will make another $70,000 and then the club will get a painting made of the TOTC and prints of this will be sold at $500 each limited to 2000 = $$$$$ and will also auction off the painting which if looking at other clubs would be $60,000. So the club will be looking at making close to $300,000 out of this event.

[blinddog]

When is the TOTC again and are there still tix for it?

[nicko18]

despite the fact that these guernseys will sell way beyond anything i am financially capable of, to know the money goes back to the club makes one's bid limit just that much higher. if the money was going to some charity, as good as that may be, i dont think i'd be prepared to fork out as much (again if i had the moola)

[Mike_B]

TOTC is on Friday August 9 IIRC (the night before we play Hawthorn). I believe tix are still available - give the club a call, they'll know.

On the subject of the guernsey prices - nothing less than $900 now.

[nicko18]

Originally posted by bricon
There is something about this auction that doesn?t seem quite ?kosher? to me. I have bought and sold a number of items on e-bay and I have <b>never</b> seen the amount of bid activity this early in the auction process as this; usually there is an opening bid or two and then virtually no bid activity until the closing hours of the auction. Furthermore some bidders have placed 4 and 5 consecutive bids, which means that individuals are outbidding their <b>own</b> bids, that just doesn?t make sense.

The club has chosen to use a marketing organization to place the guernseys on e-bay, why would they do this? It?s not difficult to register and set up an e-bay account, it would take someone maybe a couple of hours to set up an e-bay webpage for the auction of 23 items. This would cost the club maybe $80 in wages and overheads, why would they pay a marketing organization a commission of maybe $6000+ (assuming a commission rate of 10% of the final sale price) when the e-bay process is so straightforward? Why do we employ marketing people if simple marketing operations like this are outsourced?

This ?auction? has an odor about it.

this is not some normal e-bay auction. there would be thousands of people aware of this and it is highly publicised. i have found that all tv promoted ebay auctions start with extremely healthy bidding, and it continues throughout until a late splurge at the end. they probably pay a marketing organisation for all sorts of things like the phofessional photography , the promotions, the web page design etc. i wouldnt imagine it would cost anything near $6000. maybe they get volounteers to do it or people who work for the club???

i remember big brother doing an ebay auction and the bidding was just ridiculous throughout

[vagary]

cheapest at this point:
$940 for Rowan Warfe
$960 for Nic Fosdike
$1000 for James Meiklejohn

and i can't afford any of them.

[Bron]

TOTC is 9 August. Tickets start at $150 and the closer to the front you get are more expensive (like the PK do). The Club cancelled the R&W auction this year because of the PK tribute and TOTC dinners. These are the big fund raisers for the Club this year. If anyone wants brochures, let me know, we have a stack. I will be going to both and I'll do a report on both, as usual. You can organise a table or just get put on a table with people. At the Guernsey Presentation this year, we found some RWOers at our table (hi Penga).

[penga]

Originally posted by Bron
(hi Penga).

gidday

[desredandwhite]

An update - less than an hour before the auctions close and they are WAY out of my price range.... For $1364 you can get Rowan Warfe. Team guernsey going for $7100, Goodes next best at just over $3000.

[vagary]

Originally posted by desredandwhite
For $1364 you can get Rowan Warfe.

do people really not like rowan warfe?

[robbieando]

Bron,

I was going to put a post out to see if anyone here wanted to get a table together for the TOTC. So people just post here if interested.

[Bron]

I've got brochures if anyone wants to go - PM me your address and I'll snail mail them to you. A RWO table would be good!

[anniswan]

Alot of zero bidders won these auctions, I bet that half of the Guernseys won't actually get sold.

AS

[Reggi]

What do you mean by that Anniswan?

Weren't they genuine bids?