Customize Your Own Gavel Group Auction
Starting at price
INCLUDED IN ALL AUCTIONS
Pre-Auction:
- 10,000 custom world-wide solicitations
- Pick up & storage of auction items in Gavel Group’s temperature-controlled warehouse
- Bundling of auction items, including suggested start bids & increments to make the most revenue for non-profit
- Complete auction item descriptions written for bid sheets
- Packaging of all auction items into envelopes, boxes/bags & brought to event
- Displays created for silent auction items & easels brought for artwork, mannequins for jerseys, etc.
- Dedicated auction (800) phone number, PO Box & email address used by Gavel Group to handle auction item inquiries & resolve post-event questions/issues & any auction item needs on behalf of non-profit
- Suggestions for event timeline & order of live auction items & program
- In-person brainstorm meeting to devise wish list for potential auction items
- Venue walk-through meeting to confirm equipment & logistics, as well as to strategize auction table placement, guest flow, etc.
- Web microsite for auction providing proxy bidding capability
Day Of Auction:
- Complete setup & teardown of the silent auction
- Provide bid stickers with guests’ names & bid sheets with patent-protected barcode technology on colored paper by category
- Gavel Group’s proprietary iPad check-in system-secures & encrypts guests’ credit cards to have on file for purchases & includes confirmation of e-mail addresses & cell phone numbers
- 3.75% flat rate guarantee credit card processing with no additional fees featuring American Express, Visa, MasterCard and Discover
- Patent-protected Green Button at check-in that offers guests the ability to add 5% to their total spending to help underwrite event costs (Add $750 to quote if eliminating this feature)
- Text messages sent at the close of the silent auction to both non-winners & winners detailing purchases or telling them they didn’t win, thus their budget is free to participate in the donation appeal & live auction
- Processing of all credit cards real-time into the non-profit’s account
- 10-12 auction staff members to manage all aspects of the auction
- Professional auctioneer who will call the silent auction & conduct donation appeal & live auction
- Forms created for guests to sign for donation appeal & (3) Gavel Group recorders to cross reference ensuring no donations are missed
- Cashiering of guests at tables including distribution of all silent and live auction items to winning bidders
Post Auction:
- Complete auction folio emailed to guests listing all purchases at event
- Dropbox file sent that includes electronic copies of: item certificates, bid sheets, complete auction item text descriptions, winning bidder folios, & auction reports
- Donation receipts emailed to donors of auction items within seven days post-auction
- Detailed post-auction analysis of data
- Item fulfillment for Gavel-secured items
- Donor and winning bidder support for up to one year post-auction
- Debrief meeting with CEO & Account Executive to review event
Custom Fee Details:
Gavel Group earns 50% of the selling price of Gavel secured Items. Gavel Group Is eligible for a bonus of 25% of the Increase in the live auction and/or donation appeal. 10% if first-year category, the 3.75% credit card rate excludes any transaction fees, interchange fees and surcharges and allows use of American Express, Visa, Mastercard and Discover. Gavel Group is paid 25% of the 5% buyer’s premium (green button) as a licensing fee.
“À LA CARTE” SERVICESAuctioneering:
Book your auctioneer through Gavel Group, starting as low as $1,000!
Solicitation:
Send requests to around 10,000 businesses, $2,500
Gavel Express:
Gavel sends 6 personnel to manage the check-in/check-out and cashiering and provides bid sheets and personalized bid stickers for the silent auction. Gavel Express offers the real-time credit card processing at 3.75% flat rate, the patented Green Button at check in and the patented bar code technology, $3,500
(PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS) TESTIMONIALS Jamie Lee Curtis
“I attend many charity events on a regular basis and know when I see that The Gavel Group and Larry Zucker are involved, that the auction will be well run, the check-out will be seamless and that the quality of the items will reflect well on the nonprofit and their ability to raise money. I appreciate how Gavel announces the silent auction and how they conduct the live auction, keeping things fun and light and not allowing them to drag on.”
Dana White, UFC President
“The best auctioneer in the business is Larry Zucker. Any time I’ m at an auction, I tell the organizers that they should be using Larry Zucker and The Gavel Group if they want to make more money. When I staged a charity event in Las Vegas, the first call I made was to Larry Zucker and The Gavel Group. If you’ re serious about putting on a great, successful auction, Larry is your guy.”
Boys & Girls Club of East County
“Gavel Group’s services helped us realize our staff’s true value. The Gavel Group was easy to work with, eager to meet our demands and requests and raised more money than in previous years. Gavel enabled our development staff to step away from auction preparation and establish new relationships with sponsors/donors. In addition; the community based volunteer support {encouraged by Gavel) acquainted members of various organizations with an opportunity to learn about the Clubs and enabled the Clubs to eliminate overtime costs for line staff that had worked the auction.”
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