Did you like LEGO®s as a child? If you did, you might think it should be included among those great silent auction items to offer.
Wellll, I’m not so sure about that.
They are popular right now, but I’m not sure about selling them in your auction. It depends on the form they take. I think selling it ‘in the raw’ is best, versus gettin’ all fancy schmancy with it.
Watch the video below to see what I’m talking about.
Got any ideas on where to find those custom kits? If so, please post the company links below so we can all learn.
On a whim, I ordered the new Lego “Research Institute” kit directly from Lego to donate to our silent auction at Wine & Dinosaurs: A wine and beer tasting festival, our annual fundraiser at the Delaware Museum of Natural History. This kit boasts all female scientists! In addition, it features a paleontologist (with a dinosaur skeleton!), a chemist and an astronomer. When I ordered it, it was sold out. I figured I’d hold onto it for next year if it didn’t come in on time. Happily, it arrived a week ahead of our auction. We had quite a bidding war going and it ultimately brought in 188% of its FMV of $19.95 + shipping and handling. It was not a huge cash return, but the message was obvious here at our museum, the bidders had a great time (it was actually a family war) and we were not at all disappointed with the winning bid! It was simple, appropriately themed, and added to the fun factor of our event. Go girl scientists!
That’s super, Dawn! I’m not sure I understand what exactly was in the kit, but I suspect it might have offered the buyer the chance to “build” an item (maybe a dinosaur skeleton?), versus the, say, skeleton already being built? If so, I think the toy is most popular when presented in THAT form (“you create it”) versus the “it’s already built” option, which is how the crest was sold in the video. Best to let people ‘play’ with the toy.
And good idea with the item! I like how it themed to your auction.
Hi Sherry,
We had huge success in our Festival of Trees with a Christmas tree full of legos. In fact, the cameraman from WRAL in Raleigh got distracted checking out all of the kits and legos included in the tree when Scott Mason came to film for his Tarheel Traveller show. The tree was very popular with children who wanted their parents to bid on it for them.
I bet it was! And pretty, too, with all the colors. I like that your tree allows the buyer to build something, versus the finished LEGO product already being sold.