“Y'all are the top-shelf of everything you do. Our people who take your trips ALWAYS come back to us and say how amazing it was. That's why we keep choosing HGA for our travel auction items year after year.”
Susan Norris, Founder
Rescuing Hope
Live Auction Packages
The biggest single revenue moment of your event happens here.
A silent-auction trip is a win at 1 or 2 sales. A live-auction trip is built to be sold 10, 15, 20, even 30 times in a single multi-winner moment. One Tuscany for 2, sold 12 times. One Porto Portugal, sold 17 times. One Tuscany Villa for 10, sold four times in one moment. That is not a different version of the silent auction — it is a different category of revenue, and it lives or dies on two things: the trips you put on stage, and the auctioneer you put on the mic.
HGA live-auction packages are reserved at no upfront cost. You pay our reserve only on the packages that sold. Every dollar above is upside. Pair the right multi-winner lots with the right benefit auctioneer and a single live-auction line on your run-of-show can net $40K, $60K, or $100K+ for the mission.
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Live auction is where you sell one trip 20 times. Silent auction is where you sell one trip once.
That single sentence is the entire mental model for the live auction. The job of every live-auction lot is not to sell — it's to ignite a bidding war and then be sold to as many paddles as the room will raise. Your auctioneer brings up a Porto Portugal package, the bidding climbs to $4,000, and instead of dropping the gavel, your auctioneer asks "how many of you want this trip for $4,500?" Twenty paddles go up. Twenty trips sold. Roughly $30K of margin landed in 30 seconds, on a single line of the run-of-show.
That moment doesn't happen with a donated trip — donated packages are almost never multi-sellable. It doesn't happen with a generic "vacation getaway" — the room won't compete hard enough for something it can't picture. And it doesn't happen with a volunteer or untrained auctioneer — they'll sell the trip once at reserve and move on, leaving $30K sitting in the room.
It happens when you put a bucket-list, broadly-appealing, multi-winner consignment lot on the screen and you put a trained benefit auctioneer on the mic. That's the entire playbook. The rest of this page is the how.
Multi-winner math: a single lot, real numbers.
- Tuscany for 2 × 12 winners @ $4,500 → ~$24K of margin on one line
- Porto Portugal for 2 × 17 winners @ $4,000 → ~$25.5K of margin on one line
- Tuscany Villa for 10 × 4 winners @ $20,000 → ~$28K of margin on one line
- Three to five lots like these → $100K+ live-auction nights are repeatable
Margin estimates illustrate winning-bid-minus-reserve at typical event-night counts and are rounded for clarity.
The HGA live-auction headliners
Eight bucket-list, multi-winner lots engineered to bid up.
Every trip below is a live-auction headliner: highly desirable, broadly appealing, and built for multi-winner formatting. These are the lots HGA's biggest events build six-figure live-auction nights around — sold 10, 15, 20+ times in a single moment with the right benefit auctioneer.
The live-auction playbook
Fewer lots. Bigger lots. Multi-winner. Engineered to bid up.
The live auction is a different surface from the silent. 4 to 8 lots is the sweet spot. Every lot has to do real work. Open hot with a crowd-pleaser to get paddles in the air. Anchor the middle with two or three multi-winner bestsellers — Aloha Adventure, Tuscany for 2, Porto Portugal — engineered to be sold 10, 15, 20 times each. Close the night on the headline lot — the World Passport, the Italian Ferrari Experience, or the Tuscany Villa for 10. That's the run-of-show.
Every HGA live-auction package ships with a verbatim auctioneer's script, multi-winner trigger language, suggested price ladders, and a recommended live-auction order across the lots you've reserved. Your auctioneer doesn't walk on stage cold.
The playbook, in one column
- Hand-pick highly-desirable, bucket-list lots that the room will compete for
- Build the run-of-show around multi-winner formatting — one lot becomes 10, 15, 20, 30 winners
- 4–8 live lots is the sweet spot — open hot, anchor the middle, close on the headliner
- Use a trained benefit auctioneer (this is the single biggest revenue lever)
- HGA ships a verbatim auctioneer's script + multi-winner trigger language with every package
- Consign the live auction so every dollar above reserve is upside, not cost recovery
Your auctioneer is the biggest revenue lever in the room
Right trips × right auctioneer = $40K, $60K, $100K+ live-auction nights.
The difference between a Porto Portugal package sold once and the same package sold 17 times is the person on the microphone. A trained benefit auctioneer reads the room, knows when to stop the bidding and start counting paddles, knows how to keep raising the price after the first multi-sell, and knows how to close the room rather than chase it.
An untrained or volunteer auctioneer will sell the same trip once at reserve and move on — and the nonprofit leaves $30K–$80K on the table on a single lot. That single decision is the most valuable hour of work your committee will do all year.
We've built a separate sister site to make this easy: charityauctioneerswelove.com. It explains why benefit auctioneers matter, how to vet one, what to ask, and lists the auctioneers HGA has personally worked with on dozens of multi-winner consignment events. Hire from that list and you're starting on third base.
What a great benefit auctioneer does for you.
- Reads the room and times the multi-winner ask correctly
- Knows the price ladder language that keeps the room raising
- Multi-sells the same trip 10, 15, 20+ times with the room still leaning in
- Runs the recommended live-auction order so energy compounds across lots
- Briefed by HGA in advance on which lots are multi-winner and why
- Listed and personally vetted at charityauctioneerswelove.com
Six-figure ceiling. Zero risk floor.
The lot with the highest revenue ceiling in the room has zero risk attached to it.
Every live-auction package on this page is on consignment. Reserve at no cost. If a package sells once, you pay our reserve once. If it sells 20 times, you pay our reserve 20 times and keep every dollar above. If it doesn't sell, you owe nothing. There is no other auction lot that can say that.
Zero upfront cost. Zero risk.
No purchase, no inventory, no deposit. If a live lot doesn't sell, you owe nothing for it. Ever.
Highest ceiling in the room
Multi-winner formatting on every package. One lot can become 15, 20, 30 winners. $100K+ live nights are repeatable.
Auctioneer-ready out of the box
Verbatim script, multi-winner trigger language, suggested price ladders, recommended live-auction order, and direct briefing for HGA-vetted auctioneers.
The HGA live-auction process
Five steps from "we have a gala coming" to "the gavel just dropped — twenty times."
- Step 01
Free strategy call
As long or as short as you need to scope your gala goal, audience, and run-of-show — and to pick the right multi-winner lots.
- Step 02
Auctioneer match
If you don't yet have a benefit auctioneer, we recommend from charityauctioneerswelove.com — auctioneers HGA has personally vetted.
- Step 03
Marketing kit + scripts
Hero photography, package descriptions, verbatim auctioneer's script, multi-winner trigger language, and the recommended live-auction order.
- Step 04
Trips into your platform
One-click TripSync push into your auction software — or our on-staff specialist sets it up on Greater Giving, OneCause, BidPal, Handbid, HelloFund.
- Step 05
Event night → fulfillment
Auctioneer multi-sells. You hand off the winners. We deliver every trip with up to 24 months to book.
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).
Personalized service, 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.
Real results
Real events. Real numbers. Real packages.
Chicago House · Chicago, IL
Chicago House: $24,000 from a custom Euro-Pass and back-to-back Amalfi sales
Chicago House blended a paddle-drop with two live-auction Amalfi packages — turning one custom trip into a single $15K paddle moment, then doubling up on Amalfi for $24K more.
$24,000+
Read the success story
Sandpipers
Sandpipers: $23,870 by selling Punta Cana fourteen times
Sandpipers proved the multi-winner playbook — one Punta Cana package, fourteen winners at $3,500 each, with auctioneer Rossi Morreale running the room.
$23,000+
Read the success story
“I was very hesitant to do it, but that year we sold 9 or 10 items! One HGA auction item alone raised over $13,000 at our benefit auction. All of this is possible due to HGA's team of hospitality, travel, and fundraising experts who are there for you and your supporters.”
Terri Bailey
$13,000+ raised
Live auction works at every event size
Wherever paddles go up, multi-winner lots stack revenue.
Frequently asked
Live auction packages, multi-winner formatting, and benefit auctioneers — answered.
The sweet spot for most galas is 4 to 8 live-auction lots. Fewer than four and you lose the rhythm an auctioneer needs to build energy in the room. More than eight and the back half of the auction starts losing the room to dinner conversation. Within those 4–8 lots, you want a mix: one or two crowd-pleasers to open hot, one or two multi-winner trips engineered to be sold 10–30 times in a single moment, and one true bucket-list headliner to close the night. The total revenue ceiling matters more than the lot count — a single multi-winner Porto Portugal lot sold 17 times can outrun an entire eight-lot run-of-show.
Build the night your nonprofit talks about for ten years.
Bucket-list, multi-winner consignment lots. The right benefit auctioneer on the mic. Verbatim scripts and the recommended live-auction order. Personalized booking assistance with up to 24 months to book. Maximum live-auction revenue. Zero risk to the nonprofit. Nonprofits raise more money with HGA.
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