I agree, great work.

Am wondering, though, if we will be able to see the bids submitted thus far, as one can in silent auctions IRL.

Cheers,

Mary

Hello and thanks for the comments!!

Just to clarify;

A silent auction is a closed bid auction. this means that it is up to you to determine how much you feel an object is worth, and bid appropriately rather than us predetermining its value. Please go to our website to read about the theory behind the project to see how this fits in with it's overall values.

www.rubbishtogold.com

hope that helps! :)

Thank you very for this helpful update RUBBISH TO GOLD team. As an alternative, would you consider placing some sort of symbol/sign right next to a piece of jewelry to indicate the item has received at least one bid without adding the value of the bid? That way this could still serve the purpose of the project while alerting potential buyers that they may have to step up their game. Thanks for letting us know.

Great project!

While we completely understand people's desire to know what has, and has not been bid on, we feel that to give any indication or marker will affect people's responses to individual items in the auction, potentially causing some items to gain an inflated perception of value while others may subsequently be over looked.

We hope that by keeping the bidding closed until the end of the auction we will encourage each bidder to consider a variety of factors based on how they individually assign value to an object when deciding what to bid, without being affected by the fact it has, or has not, already had a bid placed on it. This we feel is especially pertinent as the exhibition will grow over the next few days and we wish all items to have a fair chance to be viewed and bid on!

I wish everyone the best of luck, what I can say is we have had a significant amount of bids both electronically and in person at the School of Jewellery and we are as excited to see what items are sold as you all are!

hopefully a lot of this will come out in our evaluation once it is all done and dusted!

But we did bring the live-stream "out" so to speak by having it broadcast on a very very large screen (along with an exhibition and information about the project) at the 'mac birmingham', which is a large arts centre that shows art, theatre, cinema etc. This audience most certainly is not a contemporary jewellery crowd, as well as making it accessible to a number of community groups we had been previously working with. 

The feedback from these ought to be interesting!

Now that all the bids are in, when will you be notifying successful bidders? Would also be cool to see the overall results.

When will we find out whether or not our bids were successful?