Goofy's Live Action Trading Event... Try this again
Live in person or live in chat?
First, I strongly suggest that you clear this with the Soda Fountain. You wouldn't want people to show up for this only to find out that the Soda Fountain Cast Members have a problem with this and start sending people away. Or, in the event that the Soda Fountain approves this plan, you should find out how many people will be permitted access to the store to participate live for the same reason. You don't want people showing up only to have them be turned away.
Second, once you get things sorted with the Soda Fountain, I think you'll need to find a way to keep track of the bids that you're getting on both ends - i.e. AT the Soda Fountain and on line IN the DPF chat room. You'll need to find a way to do several things at the same time:
1. Keep track of all of the bids IN the Soda Fountain
2. Keep track of all of the bids IN the DPF chat room
3. Find a way to notify all of the bidders in the Soda Fountain of the bids made in the DPF chat room
4. Find a way to notify all of the bidders in the DPF chat room of all bids made in the Soda Fountain
It might not be so bad for those in the Soda Fountain to track the DPF chat bids if they bring their laptops and sign into DPF chat themselves, but those in chat will have no way of knowing what is going on in the Soda Fountain without being updated. Someone probably will have to be designated with this task. The same will have to be done with a leader board at various intervals, if you're going to have one.
Potential problems I might see:
1. People were popping in and out of chat during your last auction, which made things difficult. I think that since you'll be conducting an auction both live and in chat, this will make it so much worse
2. Not everyone will be prepared (especially those offering the pins live at DSF) to provide the Pin Pics #s for their bids. Pin Pics #s will have to be provided for every bid, in order to make things fair and easy to track
3. Establishing a bidding order, both for those in chat and in DSF - and sticking to it
Once again, I'll do everything I can to help make sure this goes as smoothly as possible. Keep me (and the rest of the DPF Staff) updated; remember that we're just a mouse click away.
ok I have a question - so for the people at DSF we need to have pinpics numbers and descriptions?
Do people bring framed sets with them to trade in dark alleys?? Related to this, will people "in person" be limited to trading only what they have on them, or can they make a trade with something at home and mail it to you later? Just wondering, since I'll be stuck in TN watching from afar...
Before you do this, you need to make sure you comply with Calcivil code re auctioners. under cal law you are requredto be bounded and face fines for failing to do so. And you really need to get Disneys permission because they can kick you out and simply stop allowing pin trading if something goes wrong.
Not sure if this would apply as there is no money in exchange. It is actually a trade auction.
If this needs to be done it is not only Goofy Moe who needs to review these bond issues, but the rest of us who have done the auctions here on DPF as well as anyone who has offered a pin through pinpics.
Vicki
What's funny is people who wrote negative comments probably weren't even gonna be there, ha! Oye
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