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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

^ A real-life auctioneer . . . awesome. We didn't have a real-life auctioneer.

At one club, you got X amount of tickets (auction bucks) when you paid admission. Sometimes you had to trade drinks etc with others to get their tickets so you could out bid someone . . . politics and bribery were common place when two Doms started a bidding war and all their friends show up donating more and more auction bucks to their cause. It was really quite fun sometimes.

I don't classify as a "real" auctioneer, either, but I tend to think that I hold My own. [;)]

The way that I've put on this event is to have a gambling portion for the first part of the evening. Everybody gets their amount of fake money at the door. From there, they can try to make more by playing at the card tables. (Poker and such.) The dealers make sure the gamblers have opportunities to get more money. (Being a card dealer is a way for folks to participate who don't want to be involved in the auction part.) As host, I've gone through the crowd offering X amount of bills in exchange for an answer to a trivia question or producing a certain kind of toy.

It can be a ton of fun. Everybody is on the same page about negotiations and that it's just temporary. Still a very fun game to play if people are interested in role play for a night.

This is the kind of event that really sells itself. The more people get into the buzz about making up their slave characters and costumes, the less you have to do as far as advertising and such. Lots of work in other areas though.