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Know-how for anyone organising an auction night, from planning to settling up.

Silent auction bid sheets are dead: what replaced them

Paper bid sheets could not show a price, warn an outbid guest or close a lot fairly; here is what replaced …

Bidding is back-loaded, and a hard ending cuts it off; here is why the close decides so much of your total …

Hammer price, reserve, increment and buyer's premium in plain English, plus which of them a charity evening…

Practical rescues for auction lots with no bids: fixing the price on the spot, bundling, second-chance roun…

How proxy bidding actually works, with real numbers, the mistakes guests and organisers make, and the edge …

Why a live total and bid feed change how a room bids, how to choose the goal and the type size, and the fou…

A field guide for first-time volunteer auctioneers: the script per lot, bid ladders, pacing, stalls, the ha…

How phone bidding works at a charity auction: scan a QR code, bid in the browser, get outbid alerts. What o…

What a first-time charity auction guest needs to know: how silent and live bidding work, what a bid commits…

Running one yourself?

Setting it up costs nothing, and you can rehearse the whole evening before you decide.