Welcome to the 2024 online auction for St. John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT. This annual event raises money to support our mission and ministries in the parish and our community.
The auction is open for bidding from Friday, December 6 at 8 pm through Sunday, December 15 at 8 pm.
BIDDING: All bids must be placed online, on this Bidding Owl site. The parish staff is unable to place bids on your behalf or to provide more than basic technical help. To bid, you will need to create a Bidding Owl account. Click on the "Bidder Login" bar in the upper right of your screen, or click on the the "Bid" button for an item you're interested in, and you will be prompted to set up an account. (Note: If you registered to bid for last year's auction, you may use the same login credentials you set up at that time.) The software will assign you a random screen name, so your identity will not be known to other bidders. For all auction items, you have the option to set a Maximum Bid, which means that if others bid on your desired item, the software will automatically raise your bid up to a maximum that you set. You will receive emails from the site informing you if you have been outbid.
PAYMENT: If you are the winning bidder for an item, you will receive an automated email after the auction closes with the winning bid amount. Please don't use the Checkout button that is included in the automated message, as we do not have online payment set up through this site. You may pay by cash or check (mailed, dropped off, or put in the offering plate - please mark all payments clearly as being for the Online Auction so we apply payment correctly), or you may call or stop by the office during office hours to pay by credit card. PAYMENTS ARE DUE BY 12/31/2024. If we do not receive payment by that date, we will offer the item to the second highest bidder.
PICK UP/DELIVERY: All pick up and delivery of auction items is done locally. We cannot ship items. We will contact all winning bidders with instructions for how to get the item or service that you won.
Thank you for your support of St. John's!