A Selection of Music CDs

Feb 8 05:21 UTC 1999

Donated by Trisha Patton (beeswing):

Trisha has donated the list of CDs below.  All are in good condition; she says 
she has just outgrown them.

Here's how the bidding will work (thanks to janc and kaplan for the idea):  
Instead of bidding on individual albums, people will bid on the right to 
choose CDs from the pile.  When you bid, say how many albums you're bidding on 
and what the price is per album; so for instance, the bidding might go like 
this: 

  A: I bid $2.00 per album for 3 albums
  B: I bid $2.50 per album for 4 albums
  C: I bid $3.00 per album for 3 albums

Note that the price per album must increase with each bid, though the number 
of albums need not.  If the bidding ended after the above series of bids, C 
would send in $9 (= 3 * $3) and then choose 3 albums, B would send in $10
(= 4 * $2.50) and choose 4 albums from what's left after C's choice, and 
finally A would send in $6 and choose 3 from what's left.

Note: Don't bid unless you're willing to send in money!  The second, third, 
etc. highest bidders will have to send in money too, even though the albums 
they most wanted might be taken by a higher bidder.  So there is a great 
incentive to win, but by bidding you agree to send in money even if you don't 
come in first.  (Of course, you don't have to pay if there are so many bidders 
above you that all the albums are spoken for.) 

I don't want anyone welching just because they didn't come in first.  Keep in 
mind, as with all auction items, that this is a charity event.  :) 

Minimum bid is $2 per album, and the minimum number of albums you can bid on 
is 3.  (This is to help cut down on the number of packages Trisha has to send 
out, and the number of payments your auctioneer has to track.)  The two-CD set 
counts as two albums. 

Tracy Bonham: "The Burdens of Being Upright"
Sam Phillips (female): "The Indescribable Wow"
U2: "Zooropa"
Shakespeare's Sister: "Hormonally Yours"
Travis Tritt: "Greatest Hits"
Amy Grant: "The Collection"
Amy Grant: "Unguarded"
Amy Grant: "Heart in Motion"
Amy Grant: "House of Love"
No Doubt: "Just a Girl" (single)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones: "Let's Face It"
Marty Stuart: "Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best"
Tori Amos: "Me and a Gun" (Live single)
"Woodstock Diary" -- a collection of musicians from 1969 Woodstock, Joplin,
  Hendrix, etc
Edie Brickell: "Picture Perfect Morning"
The Beatles: "Past Masters vol. 1"
Shania Twain: "Shania Twain"
The Doors: "Best of The Doors" (2 CD set)

response 2 of 26:

Feb 8 17:42 UTC 1999

I bid $2.50 per album for 3 albums.

response 4 of 26:

Feb 8 20:51 UTC 1999

$3.50 each for 3 albums

response 6 of 26:

Feb 9 00:24 UTC 1999

$4 ea for 3

response 8 of 26:

Feb 9 01:51 UTC 1999

Yay. Way the by, if you need to e-mail me, please use my main address:

TPATTON@CC.MEMPHIS.EDU

I use backtalk here, and do not check my grex account very often. I 
check my main address twice a day usually. 

response 10 of 26:

Feb 9 14:36 UTC 1999

That's right.  Dan, I'm afraid you have to bid on at least 3 albums, so the
bid in #7 in not valid.

response 12 of 26:

Feb 10 02:19 UTC 1999

Oh, I missed that rule.  FIne, $4.50 for 3 albums.

response 14 of 26:

Feb 10 13:54 UTC 1999

Current bids are:

orinoco  $4.50 per album for 3 albums
rosie0   $4.00 per album for 3 albums
devnull  $3.50 per album for 3 albums
aruba    $3.00 per album for 3 albums
otaking  $2.50 per album for 3 albums

response 16 of 26:

Feb 16 19:16 UTC 1999

Thanks, Scott emailed and told me how. It's done! Can I yell anyway 
though? :)

response 18 of 26:

Feb 17 21:15 UTC 1999

Since I lost the bid on the Griffith book...

I bid $5 per album for 3 albums.

response 20 of 26:

Feb 24 23:54 UTC 1999

OK, Trisha's albums are going once to:

otaking  $5.00 per album for 3 albums
orinoco  $4.50 per album for 3 albums
rosie0   $4.00 per album for 3 albums
devnull  $3.50 per album for 3 albums
aruba    $3.00 per album for 3 albums

response 22 of 26:

Feb 26 09:44 UTC 1999

$5.50 per album for four albums

response 24 of 26:

Mar 6 20:58 UTC 1999

(hurry up, the CDs take up soo much room on my desk!...)