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Renato had health issues last i spoke to them and they were in and out of hospital

Like I've said, those that don't get back to me by May 1st will be demoted and worst case scenario, we will just cut the room and redistribute hosts. Their health and wellbeing is out of their control, but if they aren't able to pop in to provide updates now, they aren't capable of organising a room and shouldn't be in the position. If the only time they can spare for the ball is on the actual day, then they can participate as a guest, not a host.

Art Auctions are not against the rules. Donation Contests are against the rules. The main difference between these two. (And the reason why Donation Contests are Banned) is that in Donation Contests you keep the gold from ALL "Bids" and only one person ends up getting anything from it. While an Art Auction only the highest bidder pays and they get the prize. Often times for Donation contests people would even not allow the amount someone donated to be shown anywhere, so you could be donating a large amount a gold to only find out it was less than what someone else already bid.




For this art auction, and to keep things simple. I would say we should have only 1 to 3 artists and each should only do a single piece of artwork up for grabs.



This..... Sounds like a headache inducing way of housing an auction. This sounds like a more complex version of a raffle to start with, which is allowed btw, but generally is not used for selling artwork. Trying to keep track of is someone paid to roll or not would not be easy. And there'd be nothing stopping from someone rolling to see if they win, and then only paying for that roll if they win. It would place a LOT of work on me compared to a simple auction. x.x;



Its as Bro says. I've run Art auctions before, even one for the annual ball in the past. In fact I think Bro took part in that art auction. We had a lot of artists sign up for it, but only like 2 or 3 actually stuck around to deliver their promised work. Which ended in a lot of refunds and apologies.



Umm... If I'm going to run this shouldn't I have final approval of the artists involved? Or are you talking more generalized?



Your artwork is fairly good. I would be happy having you on board for this simply because you've got experience in doing an art auction. Which would mean you'd be far less likely to disappear before finishing your piece of artwork. If you want to do more than one piece of work to gain funds for the annual ball why not consider also making your own art auction (While trying not to have it at the same time as this one of course~ ^.^; ) and donating the funds you make to the annual ball? After all not all fund raisers need to be big.



Feels weird quoting myself~ But I needed an easy to see line break here. xD I didn't answer earlier in the post about how the auction would happen and stuff because I felt like I should address it to more people than just DJ.

I'm thinking 1 to 3 artists doing one full body picture each. The full body picture will be of the auction winner's avatar or OC plus a Kindred of their choice. Each artist will be bidded on individually. As I'll be running the thread I'll keep track of the bids, and when its over I'll inform the artists of the highest bidder for their piece of work. At which time responsibility will shift to them. The artist will collect the funds according to their own rules (That I'll have to post before hand as part of the auction information.) and will work with the auction winner to produce the artwork for them. (Again by the artist's own rules on the matter.) After, and only after, the person has received the finished piece and all the artist's work is done with the piece, the artist will send the funds they collected to the Annual Ball Mule for collection. The reason for waiting until this point is because if for ANY reason your unable to deliver the promised piece of artwork in a timely manner Gaia's rules state that a refund must be given. So this is to avoid unnecessary complications with the funds.

I think that should cover the art auction and I think I answered everything. If any of you still have questions please feel free to ask me them. cat_smile

Ah I understand. :3 Hopefully you won't have to Veto. I'm VERY (Ridiculously) Picky when it comes to art. xD And VERY Blunt on top of it. xD Lol~

I can't help being blunt though. If I'm not I feel like I'm lieing to people which isn't right. I do try to be nice, but I don't sugar coat things. x:

Personally, I already carry a lot of my own weight, just out of habit.
I enjoy having a heavy workload as long as it's not overwhelming.
That's really paradoxical. It's hard to explain, but basically, I already
run a freebies thread and a gold shop and I do RLC inbetween. If I
hold a solo auction, it's going to be for myself. I'm offering to help
with a guild based auction not run my own.

Lawd You wrote a book.
As stated, all of that was suggestions (and believe me, there was booze involved LOL so it's not surprising that my ideas didn't pan out to be as simple as I thought they were at the time rofl )

I have been skirting around and seeing if I can get Kin donated, I'm still waiting on responses from people.

If we do this fundraiser, I do not mind buying one tree killer kin for it, HOWEVER, we would have to make more than what we paid for it, or the fundraiser would be moot.

So ideally: I need you to tell me your Ideal Goal on how much this fundraiser is going to raise.

I understand you will need to get more information more things finalized before you can give me a solid estimate which is fine, I just need it before I can make the decision to clear it with Pasta and Newsies about purchasing the "grand prize" kin for your thread.

Also, this is going to be your event/fundraiser, but if we get this thing rolling, please do not be angry with me if I am breathing down your neck to follow through.

For the gold raised, I ask that all donations you get people to give be donated straight to the Annual Ball mule with the exception of the art auction donations (for reasons that you stated) if it does not overly complicate things.

If not all trades can be given directly to the Annual Ball mule without complicating every bodies lives, then I ask that there be a post in the thread spotlighting all donators, and how much/what they donated to you so we can keep accurate track of that information.

I will be accepting/keeping track of all trades handled at the time on the mule so that I can give accurate updates Pasta and Newsies, and yourself in regards to the fundraisers success and so I can update the kickstart thread.

I'm OCD about information.

Also I'm going to suggest affiliations with other Kin Give away threads, that way we can get some PR on the Ball with their threads (and the kickstart) and they can get some PR with us too, to build more of a relationship with the up coming ball as there has not been any publicity to it as of it and we can build repertoire.