On Saturday, December 4th from 12 PM to 3 PM SWFHR will run a Quarter Auction hosted at The American Legion Post 336 off Bayshore Road in North Fort Myers!
We will accept ticket Pre-Purchases until all seats are full or December 12th whichever comes first.
The Legion has a limited seating capacity, therefore, we have to guarantee the number of patrons. SWFHR has always taken the stance of not requiring fees to participate in any of their hosted events. But in order to identify how many people are truly going to attend, a pre-purchase has been required to guarantee you a seat at the fundraiser. For an initial fee of $15 paid prior to the date of the event you will be guaranteed a seat, receive a roll of quarter’s (at the door, valued at $10), and (2) free bidding paddle rentals (valued at $5). So basically you will receive fair value back at the door with no admission. This allows SWFHR to continue its stance on fees to its supporters.
A quarter auction is a cross between an auction & a raffle where people bid on items using numbered bidding paddles and a rate of quarters per paddle to bid on one item. Unlike normal auctions at a Quarter Auction, you don’t have to increase a bid to potentially win an item. Yet like a raffle, your numbered paddle(s) is like your raffle ticket(s) where if you anti a bid on an item and they call your number you WIN.
The fact that you don’t have to keep increasing your bidding amount, enables people to get valuable items for as little as .25,.50, .75 or $1.00 without spending large sums of money. Quarter auctions are a great way to raise much-needed funds for our communities.
If you’ve never been to one of SWFHR’s Quarter Auctions, here is how they work:
When you arrive, you must rent at least one bidding paddle at the door. Yes, you can rent as many paddles as you like. Each paddle is numbered and has a corresponding poker chip. Once you’ve decided how many paddles you want to rent, we hand you those paddles. Then we pull the corresponding numbered poker chip(s) to your bidding paddles and place them in a tumbler much like a Bingo spinner.
At the start of the auction, our MC will hold up the first item up for bid.
Our MC will ask for a certain number of quarters based on the value of the item.
One of our runners will then pick up the collection bowl at your table and empty the quarters from the bowl and turn them in. Once all runners have returned to the collection point the MC will announce for the tumbler to stop spinning and draw a numbered poker chip. The number drawn must correspond to a current paddle in the air for a winner. If you have that number but didn’t raise that paddle you can not play it at this point. All paddles are to remain in the air until a winner is found. There is no more money to be added, we simply spin and pull until we have a winner. This may take a few times of drawing to do so.
This goes on until we run out of items.
Our Quarter Auctions usually only last about 2 hours and they are a LOT of fun for the entire family!
Each person attending should bring plenty of quarters so that you can bid, bid, bid. Of course, we will have quarters on stand by. If you would like to donate an item(s) to SWFHR to offer up for bid at our next quarter auction or any fundraiser for that matter please contact info@swfhr.org or call (239) 567-4111.
