Not sure on all the payment choices, i have just used a card.
Approximate scedule:
6 pm: doors open for a one hour viewing. Staff will be collecting names to put them in a hat.
7 pm: Garth draws names for the order of entry. there may be a second drawing of a few names of people allowed to make an immediate choice of a single knife.
7:15 everyone leaves the room. Staff rearranges all the knives from where you had last seen them.
7:25. buyers are lined up in order of the draw. safety warning issued
7:30 buyers enter the room at a safe pace, and grab almost every freaking knife in sight
7:35 the tables are mostly bare, and the trading begins
8:00pm. serious drinking begins
9:00pm the Indiana boys go the Rivergirls (don't ask)
10:00am Friday. People show up at the Busse table at the show, and wonder where all the knives are