2013 Service Auction: Pennsylvania Dutch

Auction Results

For auction results, please click on the following links:
Auction results spreadsheet (xlsx)
Auction results sorted by bidder (pdf)
Auction results sorted by offerer (pdf)

Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 16th

Please join us for our 2013 service auction. We're calling it "Pennsylvania Dutch". Our potluck meal will start with a happy hour at 4:30 pm featuring bologna rollups, pickled eggs, pickled beets, apple cider, birch beer, and many favorite beverages. The Pennsylvania Dutch meal will include, sausage & potato, meatloaf, Dutch noodles, ham and cheese casserole, chow chow relish, and many more standard Pennsylvania Dutch foods. Desserts will include shoo-fly pie, whoopie cakes, pies, apple dumplings and applesauce cake. For a potluck food suggestion or a recipe see Varee Var, Nancy Hersch, Jean Davis or Dora Davenport.

New this year and not to be missed is our "theme baskets" raffle. Buy tickets for chances to win the basket of your choice. Many different baskets will be available. Each basket has a value of $30-$50 worth of items that include edibles, drinkable, wearable, and many more valuables. No silent sign-up for these, buy your tickets and choose your basket to take chance to win. We have not done this "game of chance" before, but if you know about "Tricky Tray" or "Chinese Auction" events, you will understand and enjoy. Don't miss this!

Our annual silent and sign-up portion of the auction will continue to be held during our dinner. The live auction will follow.

Admission: $10.00 per person (or $5.00 with a potluck dish). Children are free. Spread the word! Bring your friends, relatives & neighbors. Don't forget your check book and calendar (for those wonderful dinner items)! Free childcare will be available, with activities for the kids.

How can you help with this major fundraising event? Prepare an appetizer for happy hour, or bring a potluck dinner item. Now is the time to assess your talents and gifts. Volunteers will get the first chance to participate in the sign-up portion of the auction. For more details email auction@uuclvpa.org.

What could YOU offer at the auction? If you are planning a specific event, please set a date so people can plan. If the event is for a specific number of people, please tell us. All kinds of offerings are appreciated; such as pet sitting, helping someone for the day, baby sitting, chauffeuring and more. Special items dedicated to the 2014 Coming of Age Class. Fill out the form online here.

To see a catalog that is updated continually, click here.

Spread the word about this event. Bring your friends, relatives and neighbors. Lots of great things will be available. We hope to make this bigger than last year.

How the Auction Works

  1. Get a bidder number
    1. Get your number from the welcome/check in desk as you enter from the Wall Street door.
    2. It is totally necessary that you have a number to be able to participate in the auction.

  2. Silent Auction
    3. The silent auction is an exciting moving target.
    1. This year we will have the items of the silent auction exhibited in the gym. You can start bidding. Just remember the final highest bidder wins.
    2. All the items with the blue sheets are for the silent auction.
    3. You enter your bidder number on the sheet of the item you desire.
    4. Also your name and a bid.
    5. If you are the first bidder, enter at least 50 % of the estimated value of the item as a starting bid.
    6. Someone after you may then come by and raise your bid.
    7. It is therefore important you check your items often so they don't go to someone else

  3. Signup Auction
    1. For this part of the auction it helps to have studied your auction handout.
    2. Check which items you want. They are arranged in numerical order.
    3. Some items may fill in the first 5 minutes. Be there at 4:30pm.
    4. The signup portion of the auction is on the salmon colored sheets
    5. These are items offered at a fixed price.
    6. They may be dinners or other great things.
    7. The number of lines on the sheet correspond to the number of people who can sign up for a particular item.
    8. Enter your bidder number, your name.
    9. One line per person, that means, if there are two of you, fill two lines

  4. Voice Auction
    1. This part of the auction is the most fun and will take place in the community room
    2. Relax, enjoy and bid.

  5. Check out
    1. When the auction is completed, usually around 9pm, go to the cashiers.
    2. Tell the computer person your bidder number.
    3. The items will be tallied in the database and a printed.
    4. Check your printout carefully.
    5. We are all human and there could be mistakes.
    6. Have your checkbook ready to pay the cashiers.
    7. Make checks payable to "UUCLV "- in the memo portion mark "auction"
    8. We accept Master Card and Visa, if the item is above $50
    9. Items such as certificates will be given to you by the cashier - let them know the item # and take the item home.
    10. Don't forget to take home all children you brought.

  6. After the Auction
    1. You may need during the year information that you misplaced.
    2. E-mail Ilse or Dora at auction@uuclvpa.org.
    3. They will get the information to you from the database.

  7. If You Cannot Attend Auction Night
    1. Contact auction@uuclvpa.org for a bidder number
    2. Ask someone to do proxy bidding for you using your bidder number.
    3. Give them a maximum amount you want to spend on an item
    4. Contact your proxy bidder after the auction.
    5. Contact Dora or Ilse to settle your account

  8. Items Still Available
    1. After auction night some items there may be still available
    2. Check with Dora or Ilse about those items
    3. Get a bidder number if you don't have one already
    4. Indicate what you want
    5. Pay for the item by cash or check - see E.7. above