Katy Auctions

I love supporting local Katy Auctions. I always support local elementary schools by donating personal training sessions to help them raise money for anything they want to raise money for. Katy is my home, my community, and I want to do everything I can to support it. But lately, I’m wondering if others in the Katy area that donate to auctions really understand the point of it. I’ve had two bad experiences lately with auctions. I won’t name any names or businesses, but if you are a business that donates to auctions consider a few things.

1) Don’t donate something that you give away for free on a normal basis. If you list on your website that you are giving away a certain item to everyone that gives you their e-mail address, no one should pay money to get it an auction. Because the moment they see that they paid for something they could have had for free, you lost the respect of that individual.
2) If someone wins your auction item, they shouldn’t have to pay for something to use it. My wife recently won something.  We paid for it, outbid everyone else, and was ready to redeem it, only to find out there was a catch.  It turns out that she had to purchase something at the store in order to get the raffle item.  Now I can understand if she had to purchase something in order to use it on what she won, but this wasn’t the case.  She just had to buy something, completely unrelated to what she won, just so she could be put in their computer system to redeem the prize.  This makes no sense to me, but if someone can explain it to me, please do.

With all that being said, I am donating to some local auctions.  I donated personal training sessions to the Katy Chamber Gala recently, I am donating to Bonnie Holland Elementary, and I have another auction I will be donating to soon as well.  I almost always donate several personal training sessions to these auctions.  (By the way, if you have a fundraiser that you would like a donation for, let me know.  I’d be glad to help.)  I never discount my personal training sesssions, but sometimes you can get a great deal on a block of personal training sessions with me when you go to one of the auctions.  So bid on them when you see them, and let’s raise some money for some good causes.  I look forward to helping the winners of the auctions get in great shape, and I can assure you, you will get your money’s worth.