Hi Sherry,
Yes, to follow up to your comment, we do remove promotional posts. We think the reason our Message Boards and Facebook communities are such a success is because PTO leaders and volunteers can be comfortable knowing these channels are intended only for a free sharing of information with peers.
If our community needs information about vendors, we have many resources on the site, including our Yellow Pages, where they can go to get sales information.
Hi Kelly,
I'd like to post your question to our Facebook community as a way to get your additional responses from your peers. So, I'll post the link to it as soon as it goes live.
Vendors are unable to toot their own horn on this listserve without getting the post pulled (even when touting a free resource ...) but perhaps I can toot someone ELSE's horn. I'll test it out with this post.
You might enjoy www.SchoolAuction.net. Over the years I've referred it to a number of my smaller clients and they've found it simple to use and understand.
Unlike some of the other less expensive packages, the tool offers enough flexibility and options that it doesn't force you to make dumb mistakes. (There are too many idiosyncrasies in some competitive tools for me to explain this comment fully here, but just know that once a group decides to get smart about running an auction, the software must "work with you." Some packages don't; you can only do things 'one way,' and it's not the best way.) Additionally, the company offers several different levels of investment, which you can peruse on their site.
Hi all,
We are having trouble making a decision on the auction software we want to use. Some of them just seem to have way to many bells and whistles because we did everything ourselves in Excel to start. We need to handle the online auction side and sell tickets and that's about it. Advice?
Thanks
Kelly
