McKenzie Flyfishers’ Annual Auction

Online bidding opens March 16, 5:00PM

Bid from home online or Join us at The Wetlands where all auction goods will be on display, available to take home.

Bring your smart phone so that you can bid at the meeting. Tech help will be on hand if you need it.

4 ways to support McKenzie Flyfishers and get hold of cool stuff:

  1. Bid online from a long list of Trips, Gear, Fly Boxes and Infundibula;

  2. Buy Raffle tickets online for one of three baskets of goodies;

  3. Make direct money donations online; and

  4. Bid on the Silent Auction at the Board of the Flies. (This option available only at the Wetlands.)

Before the Auction: Register as a bidder.

Click this link: Auction Registration or type MFF2026.fundraiser.bid into your browser address bar

Once you’re on our Auctria MFF 2026 Auction Website Home Page

  1. Please click “Register”. Either fill in the information requested or confirm what is there from last year. You may need to update your password

  2. At the credit card page, enter your card info (it is secure), and this will make checkout super-fast and easy. You may also “skip this step” and handle payment later.

Once completed you will receive an email confirmation with an Access Number unique to you. PLEASE SAVE YOUR ACCESS NUMBER

Auction Event Timeline:

Post-Auction Activities

• Friday March 20 on Liar’s Lunch: Drawings to see who wins $100 cash—One Donor and One Winning Bidder.

• Auction team arranges for delivery or pick up of auction items not taken home from the meeting.

Terms and information you need to know

*Bid Group – We used to have all bidding end at the same time. This year, there are 3 Bid Groups, i.e., some auction items will close at 6:30, some at 7:15 and some at 8:00. Items not won will carry over to the next group.

Maximum Bid – Enter the maximum $ you are willing to bid on an item, Auctria will start your bid as low as it can, but still be the high bidder. If you are subsequently outbid, Auctria will bid for you as needed, but only up to your maximum.

Extended Bidding - The most grumbling we heard in past years is from members who were outbid in the last few seconds before bidding close (aka sniping), leaving them no time to rebid. Active this year is Extended Bidding, which will keep an item open for a couple of extra minutes when a bid has been made for the item in the last 60 seconds. If you’re paying attention, you will have time rebid to win.

Payment Options – If you entered your credit card in registration, payment is automatic and you will be able collect your winnings right away. You may also pay by cash or check, which will take a few minutes longer.

Many thanks to our generous Donors!

  • Also known as “automatic” or “proxy” bidding, Maximum Bid enables you to set the highest dollar amount you’re willing to bid on a given item, and then sit back and allow Auctria to keep you from being outbid… but only up the maximum bid you specified. 

    • What if someone bids more than my Maximum Bid? - Auctria will alert you by email or text message that you have been outbid. So, if this happens and you decide to increase your bid even more, you will have the chance to do so, but you should not delay if the bid closing time is near. (See Extended Bidding below.)

    • Will Maximum Bid raise my bid needlessly? - No. Auctria will bid for you (the automatic or proxy function) but only enough to keep you on top. For example, you see fly rod you want, the opening bid is set for $75 with $5 bid increments and you’re willing to buy this rod for up to $150. You set your max bid a $150. In this case Auctria will place your bid at $75. When someone else comes in and bids $80, Auctria will automatically increase your bid to $85. This series of actions will continue until the bidding goes beyond $150, in which case you will not win the fly rod without going in and bidding more. 

    • How should I think about Maximum Bid? - If you enter a maximum bid and you truly would not go above that amount, then you should not be too upset if you get outbid. You would have been outbid anyway, even without using Max Bid, if you were not willing to go above the amount you set. 

    • Bottom line - You should enter your true Maximum Bid amount, be happy if you win and sanguine if you’re outbid. 

  • No one likes to be outbid in the last seconds of an auction, with no time left to rebid higher. Extended Bidding solves this problem. We set our Bid Extension rules such that, if a bid is made in the last 60 seconds of an auction item, the bid close time for that item will be extended another 2 minutes. This will give competing bidders time to battle it out to the end, and not be “sniped” by having no time to up their bid. Theoretically, this could go on forever; however, the chances of that happening are virtually nil. At some point the bidder willing to make the highest bid will win the auction. In practice, this is typically after one or two extensions.