HOME“Lost time is never found again.” - Benjamin Franklin
About
A Time Auction is a live auction of quality products and services, except instead of bidding with money, people bid with volunteering hours. For example, you might bid 30 hours at the local animal shelter in order to get a digital camera.
When we say live auction, we mean it. There’s a fast-talking professional auctioneer, auction signs, and heat-of-the-moment decisions. To date, we’ve raised over 7,000 volunteer hours at two events. The first event was in Kingston in 2007 and the second event was in Vancouver in 2009.
How the Event Works
First, you arrive at around 6:00p.m. and begin looking at all the wonderful partner charities that have set up booths. You also take a look at all the donated items that you could potentially bid on and win.
You walk up to our friendly registration desk and we take down your name and contact information, and then we give you an auction sign with a number on it. A big number. Something like 792. And it’s printed big too. We also give you catalog of all the items up for bid. Then you are ready to auction!
When the auctioneer starts asking for bids for the item you want, just put up your number in the air. If you win the bid, jump up and say “Yes!”.
After the auction, you will contact any charity or not-for-profit to start volunteering. Perhaps it’s one of the organizations you met at around 6:00p.m. at the Time Auction. Once you finish the hours you bid, you contact us, we’ll verify that you did your hours, then we’ll give you the item that you won!
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