silent auction?

[kehouse]

can anyone please give me an idea as to what you have bought at the silent auctions, and what prices you paid?
thanks

karen

 

[Doctor P]

We paid $85.00 for a basket filled with DCL merchandise--some trading cards, a small backpack, a small soft cooler, a few coozies, a small pair of binoculars, a pin, a luggage tag, etc.

 

[inkkognito]

We purchased a picture of the ship with the Disney World in the foreground. I can't remember how much we paid, but I think it was less than $100. We were the only bidders, and I remember thinking it was quite reasonable. I tried a couple of times to get a copy of the picture from 5650, which started at either $200 or $250...can't remember which. Each time, someone else bid higher and it was too painful to go higher than that! With the other picture we bought, we placed our bid toward the end and no one else topped it so we got it at the reserve.
Barb

 

[GUNER]

This May I bid on a Steamboat Willie desk clock. I think I paid $100 for it. It was worth it as my son is an avid Mickey fan especially Steam Boat Willie. The clock was the only thing that I really liked at the auction.

 

[tvguy]

I must be cheap. I thought the minimum bids on all the items were too high!!!!

 

[Karel]

I thought all the minimum bids were high too. There's a lot of things I liked which started out above my price range.

That being said, my husband bid and won the navy blue cruise line cardigan. He was the only one to bid for $40. It's really nice even though it's too big for me and has cruise line buttons. I'm a playground aide and it will be nice in the winter time when I'm standing outside!

 

[kehouse]

thanks for your response
sounds like some great stuff. now it sounds like i need to budget a little more money.

karen

 

[paulcrsb]

I've bought a couple of framed signed pictures for about $100 ea. I thought they were worth the price.

Paul

 

[DrDO]

My wife and I purchased a 5 yard bolt of material that the color vests in animators palate are made from for $100. We collect animation art and have about a dozen Disney pieces. Thought it would make great pillows, accents, etc for the room.

 

[CRSNDSNY]

We bid and won a DCL dining menu collage. It is now proudly displayed in our dining room. I think our bid was around $100...although I'd have to look back at our onboard account receipt. Nobone else bid on it so we were fortunate to get it for the starting bid.

 

[tylerbug]

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but...what is a silent auction and where do I get information of it?????????

 

[Verandah Man]

Donald "Ducky" Williams was cruising the same week as us on 8-21-04. Several of his drawings and paintings were up for bid on the Silent Auction. I was bidding on one painting but stopped after the bidding price went over $500.00, that painting finally sold for $750.00. I was able to be the top bidder on another one of Ducky's paintings, which sold for $280.00. The painting looks very nice on our living room wall.

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Originally posted by Verandah Man
Donald "Ducky" Williams was cruising the same week as us on 8-21-04. Several of his drawings and paintings were up for bid on the Silent Auction. I was bidding on one painting but stopped after the bidding price went over $500.00, that painting finally sold for $750.00. I was able to be the top bidder on another one of Ducky's paintings, which sold for $280.00. The painting looks very nice on our living room wall.

That sounds neat Andy....did it come framed?

There was another item I wish we had bid on during our honeymoon. It was some sort of casting for the ship and part of it was in the shape of a classic Mickey. Hubby's business is castings, so I think he would have liked to have had that. We've been watching out for it again onboard ever since.

 

[Verandah Man]

Originally posted by CRSNDSNY
That sounds great, Andy....did they have it framed for you at the time?

Yes, it was already framed. I took the lithograph that we were given on our cruise that Ducky painted for the special San Juan and Antigua cruises to A.C.Moore and am having that framed to match the painting that I won at the silent auction. I already have a space for that on our living room wall.

 

[jenlovesdisney]

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but...what is a silent auction and where do I get information of it?????????



Tylerbug~ if no one else answered this already (by the time I post) a silent auction is where they have the items laid out somewhere with the starting bid set for you. You then place your stateroom number on the bidding sheet and if you are the winning bidder you will receive a call and you have to pay by a certain time. Barb has good info on her site (that is where I have gotten most of my info!) it is **********************.

But I have not been yet so this is info acquired on this site, Barb's site, and in the books I have read.

 

[pogopossum]

we cruised sep 7, and though i didn't bid, some of the items that were up included restaurant booster chair starting at $40 bid, a captain's hat signed by capt. tom which i think started at $100, a framed navigational chart map with the path of the cruise marked by the navigator starting bid $300, the ap color vest material starting at $100, and quite a few photos and lithos from special cruises starting at various amounts, an ap dessert plate, and other items from on board the ship. $40 was the smallest start bid that i remember.

 

[tvguy]

Originally posted by tylerbug
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but...what is a silent auction and where do I get information of it?????????

Outside the entrance of the Walt Disney Theater, they display a number of items. They remain on display until the next to last day of the cruise. There are clipboards next to each item, and if you want to buy something, you put a bid on the clipboard with your name, cabin number and amount you're will to pay. Of course your bid has to be higher than the highest one on the clipboard to "win" the auction and the right to purchase that item.
Our cruise they had a captains hat signed by Captain Tom, and map of your cruise route, the copy you are buying will be signed by the ships navigator with the exact times you were at each landmark on the map, glasses, plates....mostly what I like to call "dust catchers"....you know, the stuff in your house that has no function, but you have to dust frequently.
Since my wife has already covered every square inch of wall space in our house with something, we didn't have a place for any of this stuff, so didn't bid. Heck, my wife even has stuff hanging on walls behind doors that were rarely close. I keep telling her I paid good money to have those walls textured, if I had know you were going to cover it all up with stuff I wouldn't have paid to have them textured!!!!