Live Game Auctions

Placement of Your Tags

To avoid damage to items and assist the staff with check-out, here are some suggestions on attaching tags to items.

Scotch tape or low-tack tape should be used.

Anything still in shrinkwrap can have the tag taped on anyplace.

Magazine bags are recommended. Any item that will fit in one should be placed inside, and the tag taped to the outside.

Books with slick covers (Palladium, for example) can have the tag taped on the cover. Please use scotch tape or low-tack tape for these.

Boxed items or delicate books can have a strong rubber band or length of string put around it. Place the tag under the band/string, and then put a piece of tape over it onto the tag. This keeps the tape off the item, avoiding damage.

When possible, completely tape both short sides of the tag. (It is not necessary to tape around all four sides of the tags, as this slows down removal at the register.)

Consignment Store or Live Auction?

The fee to put items into live auction is slightly more than putting them in the consignment store. However, putting an item into live auction doesn’t guarantee a higher price, and sometimes you will get a lower price.

If you have a good idea of the value of an item, or it is a less desired item, then it is best to put that in the consignment store, putting your prices starting at the top price, and then lower prices for subsequent days. Make the price for the last day a price you would take as the lowest price rather than have to take the item home.

If putting the item in the live auction, it is often best to put it at $1.00 with no reserve. It is the job of the auctioneers to get the best price, and it is easier to get people to start low and go up in price, rather than start at a higher price. Sometimes, if two identical items are put in, one at $20 to start and the other at $1 to start, the one that started at $1 goes for more because more people had time to get involved in the bidding.