From what you've said, this sounds like a single lot of 2 tickets. It might be an idea to require the winner of the bid to name (in private to you) both people on the tickets to prevent secondary auctions springing up. I'm actually vaguely interested in this (though I suspect the price will go too high for me), so I'm going to post a link here to the details:cjdemooi wrote:The eBay idea wasn't going to work. However, as I've been asked repeatedly to put a pair of tickets up for bidding, I'm going to offer a mini auction on this forum instead!
The lot is 2 tickets for the entire evening, at a starting price of £50. Place your bids below so everyone can see what's going on and the winning bid will be the last received by the end of Wednesday 25th August (with an 11.59pm time stamp on the posting)
5% of all proceeds go to charity and 5% go to Women's chess in the UK so 2 good causes to start with.
http://howardstaunton.com/staunton2010/ ... lcome.html
Wednesday 25th August gives enough time for me to try and remember what I'm doing on 8th September (it is a Wednesday). The Staunton Society website doesn't say what time the event and dinner starts (you might want to get that fixed), but the blog here does give the times:
http://chesscircuit.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... unton.html
Reception at 5pm, departure ("carriages") at some point after 11pm.
Starting at 5pm on a weekday is something people need to know when bidding for something like this. Hopefully what I've posted above will generate interest in the auction!