Anonymous wrote:Any auctioneer will tell you that the whole point is to get people's competitive juices flowing so that they part with more money than they would otherwise. So, essentially, the school holding the auction is leveraging the worst traits of its parents to benefit itself the most. Frankly, I congratulate the schools for bending avarice, greed, one-upmanship, self-centeredness, ostentation, and pride to positive use. Making bidding anonymous would defeat the whole point, and would no doubt severely diminish auction revenues.
I also applaud the people who donate to their schools without making a big show of it. That is how I prefer to do it myself. But a school has to have multiple approaches to fundraising using a variety of motivators to ensure that they are not leaving any money on the table.
LOL ... yep, the schools do the live auction because they know it works. And the participants do it for their own reasons as well. And for those who find this whole spectacle unappealing (as I do despite the fact the money benefits scholarships), it is a very simple thing to just stay home and contribute to the school in myriad other ways.
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