Ryan Alford
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He came to the office.
There was a
Big publicity and real dog and pony show about the auction and making it special.
We got a lot of publicity.
It didn't sell because I had a reserve.
It didn't sell.
That didn't matter because I got a lot of eyeballs.
I got a lot of registrations.
We did $800,000 in our first auction.
Everything sold tremendously.
There was a hurricane in the middle of it.
I stopped the auction.
That was Hurricane Sandy.
And we said, okay, I donated $50,000 worth of merchandise that I had.
We auctioned it off to the Red Cross and just generated a lot of publicity.
I just tried a lot of things.
I did a deal with DuPont Registry.
You know why?
They sell really expensive cars.
People with money, I figured, go there.