Auction Packages on Consignment

Nonprofits raise more money with HGA.

HGA auction packages are the single highest-revenue, lowest-risk item your fundraiser will run all night. Reserve them at no upfront cost. Pay our reserve only on the packages that sell. Sell most premium lots to multiple winners. Stack a Vacation Station silent table, a couple of Vacation Passports, the $100 and $250 Golden Ticket raffle, and a curated set of bucket-list live lots — and watch your gala, golf tournament, or auction outperform every prior year.

Maximum fundraising potential. Minimum risk to the nonprofit. Zero. Every dollar above our reserve goes to the mission.

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The single most valuable item in your auction has zero risk attached to it.

Most fundraisers leave the highest-revenue lot in the room untouched because the model behind it scares finance. Buying premium auction inventory upfront puts the nonprofit on the hook. Donated items don't bid up. So committees compromise — a gift basket, a restaurant certificate, a hotel weekend — and walk away from the six-figure live auction they could have run.

Consignment auction packages from HGA solve both problems at once. You get marketing-grade travel donors actually compete for — Tuscany, Mykonos, Fiesta en Mexico, the Italian Ferrari Experience — at no upfront cost. You pay our predetermined reserve only on the packages that sold. If a package doesn't sell, you owe nothing and we take it back. Nothing ever lands on the nonprofit's books.

That is the whole pitch. The auction lot with the highest revenue ceiling in your event has zero risk attached to it. Whatever your event is — gala, golf tournament, online auction, raffle, school benefit, faith-based fundraiser, hospital foundation evening — these auction packages set you up for success and minimize your risk to zero.

Risk-free consignment, in one paragraph.

Your nonprofit reserves as many auction packages as it wants from our catalog at no upfront cost. Your guests bid the night of the event. After the event you pay our predetermined consignment cost only on packages that actually sold — and you keep every dollar above that cost. No purchase, no deposit, no inventory, no risk.

No purchase, no deposit, no inventory on the nonprofit's books.
Multi-winner formatting on every package — one lot can become three or four winners. No blackout dates.
Average HGA event reports a 3x lift on live-auction revenue per package.
100% of revenue above our reserve goes to the mission. Every dollar.

Silent auction strategy

Set your silent auction up for success: appeal to the whole room.

The silent auction is a public surface. Every donor walks past it. Every donor scans it. The mistake most committees make is putting out a few items that appeal to a narrow slice of the room — a bottle of bourbon, a spa weekend, a single destination — and watching half the donors keep walking.

The fix is the Vacation Station: a curated 6–10 trip silent-auction table built for one purpose, to put something in front of every donor profile in the ballroom. A mix of beach, Europe, golf, domestic, and adventure on one branded display. Multi-winner formatting on every package, so the same trip can be sold two, three, four times. Sign-up bidding open all night so donors return to the table during cocktails, dinner, and the live auction.

Same concept as a Passport, expanded into a whole table. It is the single best-performing silent-auction format we ship.

The Vacation Station playbook

6–10 curated trips on one branded display (the Vacation Station playbook)
Appeal to every donor profile — beach, Europe, golf, domestic, adventure, all out at once
Multi-winner formatting on every package — the same trip can be sold 2, 3, or 4 times
Sign-up bidding open all night — donors return to the table 3–4 times
Bid sheets, signage, and the table layout provided in the media kit
Pair the table with one or two Vacation Passports — the highest-yielding silent items we sell

Why Passports work

One auction item, every kind of donor in your room
Beach, Europe, golf, domestic, adventure — winner picks after the event
Bidding pool 2–4x deeper than any single-destination lot
Multi-winner formatting available on most Passports
Built for silent auction, raffle, and live auction
Vacation, Premier, World, Caribbean, Euro, Golf, Sports Passports

Passport strategy

Passports: one item, every donor in the room.

A single-destination trip loses every donor who's already been there. A Passport contains every kind of trip — beach, Europe, golf, domestic, adventure — and the winner picks the destination after the event. Same risk-free consignment model. Same media kit. Same multi-winner formatting.

The bidding pool is 2–4x deeper than any single-destination lot because every donor in the room sees a trip they'd actually take. They are the highest-yielding silent-auction items we sell, and they ladder up beautifully into a live-auction headliner (the World Passport, in particular, bids out as a stage lot at almost every gala that runs it).

Golden Ticket strategy

The $100 Golden Ticket. The $250 Golden Ticket. The World Passport prize.

The Golden Ticket is the highest-margin single line on the night. Sell 100–300 tickets at $100 each, draw one winner, the winner picks a bucket-list trip from our catalog. Layer the $250 tier on top for sponsor-table leads and top donors. Use the World Passport as the headline prize so every ticket holder knows the winner can go literally anywhere. Same risk-free consignment model — pay our reserve only on the prize the winner picks.

The $100 Golden Ticket

$15K–$50K of high-margin revenue, stacked on top of every other line.

Sell 100–300 tickets at $100 each. Draw one winner the night of the event. The winner picks a bucket-list trip from our catalog. You only pay our reserve on the prize the winner ultimately picks.

Turnkey marketing kit: poster, signage, promo video
Works as a raffle or drawing — your call
Pair with the World Passport as the headline prize
Most events add $15K–$50K of high-margin revenue

The $250 Golden Ticket

A second tier for sponsor-table leads and top donors.

Layer a $250 ticket tier on top of the $100. Same drawing. Bigger prize. Sponsor-table leads, board members, and top donors gravitate to the $250 tier — and the same Golden Ticket line on the night now stacks two prize tiers at once.

Sold to top donors, board members, sponsor-table leads
Bigger headline prize than the $100 tier
Same risk-free consignment — pay reserve only on the winner's pick
Stacks the same drawing line into two revenue streams

Live auction strategy

Highly desirable. Bucket-list. Multi-winner. Engineered to bid up.

The live auction is a different surface from the silent. Fewer lots, bigger spotlight, higher ceiling per item. The job of every live-auction lot is to ignite a bidding war and stack revenue on a single moment — paddles up, the auctioneer on pace, the room watching.

That means the lots have to be hand-picked: highly desirable, bucket-list, broad-appeal items the room will compete for. Fiesta en Mexico. Tuscany. Mykonos. The Italian Ferrari Experience. Lots that can be sold multiple times so a single line on the run-of-show can become three or four winners and three or four times the revenue.

You won't sell as many lots as you do in silent — 4 to 8 is the sweet spot — but each one is engineered to bid up. And because they're consigned, every dollar above your reserve is upside, not cost recovery.

The live-auction playbook

Hand-pick highly-desirable, bucket-list lots — Fiesta en Mexico, Tuscany, Mykonos, Italian Ferrari
Use multi-winner lots to ignite bidding wars and stack revenue on a single item
Verbatim auctioneer's script + recommended live-auction order shipped with every package
Open with a crowd-pleaser, anchor the middle, close the night on the headline lot
Fewer lots than silent — 4 to 8 is the sweet spot — but each one engineered to bid up
Consign the live auction so every dollar above your reserve is upside, not cost recovery

Why consignment changes the math

The auction lot with the highest revenue ceiling in the room has zero risk attached to it.

Read that line again. The single biggest revenue lever in your entire auction — premium consignment travel — costs your nonprofit nothing if it doesn't sell, and pays out our predetermined reserve only on what does. There is no other auction item that can say that.

Zero upfront cost. Zero risk.

No purchase, no inventory, no deposit. If a package doesn't sell, you owe nothing for it. Ever. The cleanest fundraising paper your CFO will see all year.

Highest revenue ceiling in the room

Multi-winner formatting on every package, no blackout dates. One Tuscany lot, four winners. One Fiesta en Mexico, three winners. Average HGA event reports a 3x lift on live auction.

Turnkey + done-for-you

Marketing kit, auctioneer scripts, TripSync push, software specialist on every other platform, and white-glove winner fulfillment with up to 24 months to book.

The HGA Process

Five steps from "we have an event coming" to "the gavel just dropped."

Strategy, packages, media kits, software integration, and white-glove winner fulfillment — all included in the consignment model. Your committee is done at the gavel.

Step 01
Meet your dedicated consultant
Every nonprofit gets a dedicated HGA fundraising consultant — a partner, not a sales rep — who learns your event goal, audience, and venue.
Step 02
Build the package mix together
Your consultant works directly with you to shape the lineup — live lots, silent items, a Vacation Station, the right Passports, and a Golden Ticket setup. No proposals; just a partner helping you build the night.
Step 03
Full digital marketing kit
Hero photography, descriptions, auctioneer script, bid sheets, signage, Golden Ticket poster + promo video — built and sent as digital files.
Step 04
Trips into your platform
ClickBid → one-click TripSync. Greater Giving, OneCause, BidPal, Handbid, HelloFund, anything else → our on-staff specialist sets it up.
Step 05
Event night → fulfillment
You hand off the winners. We deliver the trips. Up to 24 months for guests to book. Your team is done.

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After the sale

Sell the trip. Hand us the winner. You're done.

Send us the winner's name, email, and phone — that's the entire hand-off. Within 24 hours, a dedicated HGA booking specialist reaches out and your team is officially done. No itineraries, no follow-up emails, no "did they ever book?" anxiety. Your nonprofit gets the credit; we do the work.

Hand-off in one email

The only thing the nonprofit owes us is the winner's name, email, and phone. We submit the trip and contact them within 24 hours.

Dedicated booking specialist

Every winner gets a real human at HGA — same name, same inbox, from first call to wheels-down.

2 full years to book

No blackout dates. Winners have 24 months to lock their dates (not to travel — to book).

White-glove, start to finish

Our in-house booking and customer-service teams handle every detail. Donors brag about the trip — and about the way the nonprofit treated them.

Sell it as many times as you want

There is no cap on how many times a package can be put in front of bidders — same night, next event, every year. Reserve once, sell again and again. The nonprofit only ever pays the consignment cost on trips that actually sell.

Auction packages for every kind of event

Whatever your event is, these packages set you up for success.

Gala, golf tournament, online auction, raffle, school benefit, faith-based fundraiser, hospital foundation evening, animal welfare event, corporate CSR auction. Same risk-free consignment, same catalog, same fulfillment.

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Frequently asked

Auction packages, answered.

A consignment auction package is a premium item — almost always a bucket-list travel experience — that your nonprofit reserves at no upfront cost, displays at your live or silent auction, and pays for only after the event, only on the packages that actually sold. There's no purchase, no deposit, no inventory on your nonprofit's books, and no fee if a package doesn't sell. It's the cleanest fundraising paper your CFO will ever see, and it's the engine behind almost every $1M+ gala HGA touches.