Paul can you ask the nursery school to try to take bids by phone? I will mail them a 20 dollar check. And if I win I will not make you go anywhere, I will fly out to Palo Alto. I am sure many others would appreciate this option.
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#12Most likely a bargain in comparison to the lunch with Warren Buffett that recently went for a whopping $2.63 million.
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#13Can someone in the area be my proxy and bid for me?
I'm wondering this same thing for myself. I don't want to give the school a fixed number. I want a live body that can call me. I might go over my "limit" if it's within reason at the last minute...
I think it is a silent auction. So you go in and put your bid. So it is not going to be like what I believe you imagine.
I am not sure whether 1. you know what others have bid(my guess is this would be the case to raise more money from charity's point of view) 2. you can bid again.
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#14Paul can you ask the nursery school to try to take bids by phone? I will mail them a 20 dollar check. And if I win I will not make you go anywhere, I will fly out to Palo Alto. I am sure many others would appreciate this option.
According to this previous post on the topic (by one of the volunteers at the school) if you want to bid but can't be there in person then you can contact them:
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#15Can someone in the area be my proxy and bid for me?
I'm wondering this same thing for myself. I don't want to give the school a fixed number. I want a live body that can call me. I might go over my "limit" if it's within reason at the last minute...
Yeah, most silent auctions for charities will have items on tables and a paper/clipboard in front of each ... as you mingle at the event, you can check the highest bid and raise if you'd like ... could be wrong though
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#16Seems kind of ... hrm ... odd to propose it as a chat about your startup. I think it'd be fun to do lunch with PG, but would much rather range over a wider group of topics - life in Italy, fatherhood, tech trends, languages, politics (hate seeing it on this site, but like everyone, I'm interested in it), and this that and the other thing.
Seems reasonable to me. For the silent auctions I've attended, barbers contribute haircuts, masseuses contribute massages, dentists contribute teeth whitening. PG's profession is advising startups, so that's what he put up for bid.
If you won the teeth whitening but wanted to engage the dentist in a conversation about sports or society or the state of the dental profession, he'd probably go for it, but it's not odd that he offered his expertise to the fundraiser.
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#17This is a great way to increase the value (or beneficiaries) of altruistic acts. Maybe that startup Skyara should make this one of their use cases, where people with specific domain knowledge could offer lunches and donate the proceeds to charity.
Note: I have no affiliation with Skyara and hadn't even heard about them until I read this HN thread a couple minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874982
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#18Site idea: leaders in their field volunteer their time for lunch. People bid and also pay for said lunch. Winning bid goes to designated charity. Perhaps have one auction per day. Could be anything from someone like PG to head of marketing at a major sports team, to notable chefs, writers, etc.
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#19Site idea: leaders in their field volunteer their time for lunch. People bid and also pay for said lunch. Winning bid goes to designated charity. Perhaps have one auction per day. Could be anything from someone like PG to head of marketing at a major sports team, to notable chefs, writers, etc.
yup just what i was talking about, see below
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#20pg, are you ready for the possible
"Why didn't you pick me for yc?! (sob)"
awkward lunch?