This item is for discussion of the Great Grex Auction.156 responses total.
So are there any particular plans for what happens with the money we raise?
Is there some unwritten law about bidding on your own product? (per item #7) actually could unload it, maybe i could scam w.w.w. access out of the deal?
oops, a sentance dissapeared! now where the heck did it go???
Re 1: Hopefully we can use the auction proceeds to get a faster Internet connection. It depends on how much we raise and how much a net connection will cost. Re 2-3: Could you try that again? I'm not sure what you're asking. Yup, you're welcome to bid on your own donation to the auction, but the money you spend on buying what you donated would go to Grex.
I'd like to suggest that when an item has gone a week without any bids, instead of it being immediately sold, maybe the auctioneers should enter a response to let people know this is their last chance to bid. You could just say "Going once..." and maybe "Going twice..." the next day, etc. That gives people a chance to change their mind about bidding; especially if they skimmed an item because there were others they were interested in, and it doesn't sink in until later that they want to bid.
That makes mucho good sense. Thanks!
I was planning on making an announcement six days after the final bid, to the effect of, "Last chance!"
Hey, is there a minimum bid? I just had to ask.. What if I bid 5 cents for the mouse pad and 25 cents for the SVGA card (nobodys bidded yet on these). Well, on one hand anyone could beat those bids and it might get started, but, what if I got the card for 25 cents??!? Maybe you should let people bid anything but if it comes up to be, lets say less than $5.00, maybe you should charge a min. of $5.. So if someone out bids me by $.50, they get it but at least they'd donate $5.. Or something to that effect?? no? Maybe that pad isn't worth $5, but the time and effort and what not... ect.. You get my point, if you could expect at least $5 from everything it'd be worth doing this no matter what you auctioned... See ya..
JWT's point is a valid one, especially when you must consider that, if the successful bidder lives out of town, the item may have to be mailed to that person, and 25 cents won't even mail a letter anymore.
Some of the people posting items have stated minimum bids. It might be a good idea for those people who's items haven't been bid on yet.
(By the way, current bids total just over $300).
If an item must be shipped, who is responsible for paying the shipping and handling?? the donator, Grex, or the buyer?
It would be logical for the buyer to bear the shipping costs, unless the seller was feeling magnamamous. ;)
I thought it was mentioned in the Agora auction item that the seller would be responsible.
Yup, we've been saying that the donator will arrange for delivery, unless it's specified otherwise.
out of curiousity, would it be possible to donate animals? (we hink that one of our guiena pigs might be pregnerant....)
um, have you decided how to inform the highest bidder that the item is now theirs? an email message perhaps? my mom keeps asking if she should send in the dollars for the truffles yet and i keep telling her....i don't know!
Rob or I will enter a response in the item. We're a bit behind on pointing out that bidding is slowing down on particular items. Ideally, we should be entering "going, going, gone" type responses so that people don't forget about items they're still interested in.
I'll sweep through the items and note which ones are approaching the finish.
I wouldn't close an item without give at least 24 hours notice.
PS: According to my notes, high bids currently total $432.50.
um, this may be a dumb question, but, it says in item 1 that when the check gets to cyberspace communications, the donor will arrange to deliver what you bought to you...who is supposed to tell the donor when its time to deliver...grex or the buyer? thanx
popcorn or I will send mail to the donor.
And before that, when I get the check, I'll send mail to popcorn and robh.
Total high bids: $535.95
If my notes are not too scrabbled (which they probably are) total high bids now total $707.75
(i know that a hefty chunk of that is mine...sigh..:)
(we thank you for your generousity)
<<factorials notwithstanding ...<g> >> thank you, eeyore.
Current total: $775.26
It's kind of a stretch to get from here to there, but I wonder if we can break $1000. Anybody else out there have something cool to donate?
Rob, I could donate my heart. ;) (this is in response to something you said earlier. The bidding should start at......? ) ;)
You know, we don't have anyone offering a date with themselves. Didn't I read that such a thing was offered on M-Net?
Er, um, I think that's not exactly what we auctioneer types had in mind.
I'd feel especially bad if nobody bid on that item. >8)
Ah. I see your point.
can we pay in cash? i hope so cause my mom wont write checks for me
I'd really rather not have anyone sending cash through the mail. Can you get a money order?
Maybe you should consult with your other auctioneers before saying that, Valerie... Rob suggested I donate myself not just as a date, but as a spouse. "Be Brighn's next spouse" was the offer, I believe. And, um, no, I'm not willing to donate that. =}
(The suggestion was, shall we say, not entirely serious.)
(Rob just wanted to see how much I'd pay...)
Cash throught the mail is risky in theory, but I've never heard of peopel actually having problems with it, as long as it has something wrapped around it to make it look less like money.
Quite a few people send us cash through the mail, but of course it's at their own risk.
Things definately slowing down. Now at $780.26
They had to slow down sooner or later.
i just wanted to say...that arthurp's truffles are WONDERFUL...
Rob, could you send me an email with the total amount listed for items I wond the bid on? I don't know how to extract that info without having to reread each and every item from beginning to end. TIA I could donate another week's stay here at the farm, but there didn't seem to be too much interest in it except from denise. Maybe it would be more interesting if I donate the stay for while I am not going to be here...like during the summer for a week or during a holiday week?
I can get you that info, freida - I'll send it whjen I get home tonight.
I'll leave it to aruba, then.
Freida, you owe $1000.00. Approximately. Refunds may take several years.
Thanks aruba... I needed that laugh adbarr!
Hm. Harumph! Pray tell. Just what "laugh" is this mountain woman referring to? Not sure at all, am I. We live off the interest. Here in the valley.
Just remember this woman has chickens that need to be fed, and watered and collected everyday. Might be a cool experience.
$789.26 -- Only $10.74 short of $800.
Including robh's purchase of an extra peace-lilly, bids now total $806.26. I think.
I'll be mailing my check for my cookies on Monday... [guess I better go reread the itme to see who's making the cchip cookies [with nuts] and let him/her know where to send them!! :-)
That's Marla (qt314) who offered the cookies.
Denise, do you want them with pecans or walnuts. You just need to tell me which ones, and I will be more than happy to make them. :)
Hmm, Marla, both kinds sound good. How about pecans? And to make shipping easier, I'll be in MI for a few days over the 4th of July holiday--assumuming you're in AA, too, we can arrange a pickup.
Marla (qt314) says that cool. She only asks that you email her a few days before hand as a reminder. :)
Okay! I wond the bid on Marla's whiskey cake and let me tell you IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!! It has the most subtle flavor and I ate the whole thing myself just cause it was so good! (Sorry Val, Jan, Amy and Mike, I didn't think of offering you any while you were here *freida smacks her hand for being such an ungenerous hostess*) I Also want to thank Valerie and Jan for bringing the cake, brighn's books and the plant I got from the auction which Valerie donated. ThePeace lily is a wonderful plant which seems to like my dark living room. It is quite large and even seems to like me! (Thanks Valerie!...I love it!) I also won the bid on Brighn's book and two other phamplets he wrote. One was okay, one was really quite nice and a very enjoyable read and I haven't finished the book yet, but, so far, it is also quite good. Thanks Brighn for donating them!
<bjorn wonders what's taking so long about the shipping of the Grex Mugs he won the bid on>
Bret Weintraub (formerly login zook) has contributed some strategy board-type games, the cool kind. As soon as somebody has sorted out what they are, they'll be available here in the Auction. Hint: There's a still-shrink-wrapped box with Magic the Gathering stuff in it!
<bjorn "walks the plank" off a skyscraper at the sight of the Hint. Needless to say, bjorn dies when the ground kills him>
I'll be getting the games to robh RSN, hopefully a list sooner. No seriously, most games are those strategy simulation board games... like "Starship Troopers", "Third Reich", etc. There's only one thing from M:TG and that is still shrink-wrapped, indicating excellant taste on the part of the previous owner... ;)
<bjorn considers coming back from the dead, but decides its not worth it at the moment - I need to be coerced>
Re 62: Grexstock got in the way of getting the mugs to you, since I've got the mugs and I was out of town. Hopefully I'll be able to run into you at GNO this week and deliver the mugs then.
Gotcha.
GNO is on Friday this week....
Yea, I got llanarth's mail - saved it too. (Look for the guy with the blue face - literally)
Grex recently received some miscellaneous donated computer parts (286 & 386 motherboards, I/O cards, cables, mono monitors). I think we should try auctioning off the better items here. On the other hand, I'm wondering if the auction ought to perhaps end for a while, and be restarted in the future, when a number of things are again available. This would make it more of an "event" than a continuous, ongoing effort. What do people think? Also, one suggestion I'd make for future auction ground rules is that I think the bids should not automatically be finalized by the 7 day time period alone, but should be finalized after one day of "final notice" by an auctioneer (hopefully on the 6th day, but if they miss it, then bids are still open). I think people might be more inclined to make an extra bid if they're reminded that something is about to sell for a great price.
I like Rob's rule, and I agree that the auction would make more proceeds if it was an "event" rather than an ongoing thing.
My rather ragged and scribbled up notes indicate a total of $875.26 in high bids so far.
Whoops, make that $921.26. Wow. If someone outbids Rob on those games, we may make a grand yet.
Re 71-72: I agree that I'd rather have the auction as a special event that occurs once in a while, rather than an ongoing thing. However, people keep donating stuff to be auctioned off, and it doesn't entirely seem right to cloister it away (where?) rather than putting it into the auction immediately.
Yeah, I sure don't want to have to hold on to these games for an indefinite period...
So I finally get here only to find that the place is about to close up. Story of my life ...
I might have something to donate, but I'll have to check some details first. Mostly with TSR.
If you just quit accepting donations after say, Aug. 15, or any other date you set, then it will just be a once a year (or less often) thing. I think it is cool that people are still donating...wish I could think of something else to doante!
Hang on....My brother and I just got here, and we'd be happy to bid on the games!
$957.76
$970.66
Yup, I definitely believe we can break $1000 yet. Cool beans!
$995.20
I will be at GNO tonight. I realize that it is short notice, but it's better than none. So if you can, you can get those mugs to me tonight . . .
As I've mentioned before, my bookkeeping is probably somewhat fractured, but
I think we now stand at
$1,027.76
Cool! We made it past $1000! Re 85: Bjorn -- I just now saw your message. Will you be at the picnic on Saturday? I can bring your mugs there....
probably not, I'm not much of an Early riser. But bring them just in case. I may just show up. Don't count on it though . . .
The picnic is at 1pm. If the weather is nice, it is likely to last into the evening.
Um. Well, I'll have to read the picnic item to find out where to go . . .
It's agora item 34.
$1072.26 My notes are overflowing and over-scribbled. I may need to restart my bookkeeping. I never expected this to keep running so long.
Bjorn, I brought your mugs to the Grex picnic, but you weren't there. Next idea for how to deliver your mugs to you?
Let's see: I have no intention of going to TOP anythime soon. I can't get to GNO, 'cause I'll be at work (unless you wouldn't mind waiting an extra 2, 3 hours.). I occasionally drop into the Rider's Hobby Shop on Liberty - but those are quick and usually unplanned in date . . . Nothing right now, I'll think of something - I hope.
$1094.87
I made some new notes, added things up again, and checked my sums.
So far, we have a total of $1103.52 pledged. $886.76 of this is on items
on which the bidding has closed.
Counting only items on which the bidding has been closed, here are the totals
of what each user has donated to the auction and spent on the auction:
USER DONATED PURCHASED
adbarr 70.00 7.51
ajax 81.00
armada 15.00
arthurp 10.00
aruba 129.00
bjorn 18.00
brighn 42.00
bruin 17.00 5.00
coyote 2.50
denise 91.50
eeyore 25.00 75.00
freida 140.00 101.00
fuzzball 4.00
hematite 6.00 3.00
janc 75.00 23.00
kenb 10.00
marian2 3.00
misha 3.00
natbaird 95.00
nephi 46.00 93.00
omni 30.00
otter 107.75
peacefrg 7.00
popcorn 46.00 2.50
qt314 68.50 28.75
rickyb 53.00
robh 19.51 70.00
scott 41.00
tsty 47.00
wolfe 16.00
zook 7.00
Grex 18.00
Unknown 21.00
Remember, this list does not include items on whicht the bidding is still
open.
popcorn, I have rechecked my McDonald's schedule and should only be 1 hour late to GNO - unless I decide to get out of uniform before I partake. However, I am not precisely sure I checked my work schedule correctly, and I will do so again when I am at work on Thursday to make sure that I piled the 15-minute intervals of grill-work properly. You may be able to give me the mugs then - I'll make sure to either wear my uniform or my Grex shirt so that you can recognize me.
If you're really going to be at GNO, let me know. I don't usually go, but if you're sure you'll be there, I'll go. Don't worry about recognizing each other. We've met before.
Hhhhmmm..Interesting....I think We should set a new goal.....
Let's say...a million? (:>
Yeah - I know I'll be able to make it to GNO - I'll be at most, an hour late.
$1122.01
Jan, do your notes have the items listed? I'm planning on sending a thank-you note to Bret (formerly zook) and if you've already got the numbers for his contributions... (if not, I'll get them myself)
As you noticed, I wasn't at GNO - I had unfortunately copied my work schedule incorrectl, for THURSDAY only. On to the next idea . . .
bjorn, why don't you folks take this discussion to email? Fascinating as it is for the rest of us ...
Ha! I wasn't at GNO either. :) :) :)
(Sorry Dave)
Re #104: Good idea.
Re #102: What numbers do you want, exactly, Scott?
Re 108: What the final total is (will be) for the stuff Bret donated, so I can send him a nice note saying how much he helped Grex.
Nobody was at GNO for long. By the time I got there, they were running some kind of concert, and charging at the door. (!!!)
Sorry we missed you, Rob. When they started looking like they were probably ready to kick us out, we moved it to the roof of Rendez Vous.
I have a pretty detailed item-by-item list. Not at the computer I'm currently at, however.
OK, total high bids: $1129.01 (total on closed items in $965.26) The zook items that have been sold totaled $72. The ones still being bid on currently total $86, for a current grand total of $158. I think several more items will be closing real soon, so I'd wait on the letter for a few more days, till we have a more complete result.
Wow, that's gonna be a very thankful letter! :)
For those looking for a deal, the following items are still available in the auction: ITEM WHAT DONOR HIGH BID 11 Mark Twain Performance blh 0 17 The Electronic Invasion ??? 0 17 The Best Guide to Busin Shareware ??? 0 17 Internet for Windows: AOL Edition ??? 0 17 Using Compuserve to Make you Rich ??? 0 49 Napoleon at Waterloo Board Game zook 5.50 56 Everex 386 DX-20 Motherboard ajax 0 56 Everex 386 SX-20 Motherboard ajax 0 56 386 SX-16 Motherboard ajax 0 56 Pair of Everex 286-12 Boards ajax 0 56 Pair of Everex 286-10 Boards ajax 0 58 Multi-I/O Card Dominant 0 59 One-Port Serial Card Dominant 0 59 One-Port Serial Card Dominant 0 60 Monographics/Printer Card Dominant 0 60 Monographics/Printer Card Dominant 0 60 Monographics/Printer Card Dominant 0 61 Twelve MFM Disk controller Cards Dominant 0 62 10-channel Cordless Phone Sarrica 18.42 63 Apple CD SC Sarrica 0 64 44MB Cartridge Drive Sarrica 0 65 Four 44MB Cartridges Sarrica 0 66 Motorcycle battery Charger Sarrica 0 67 WordPerfect Works for Macintosh Sarrica 8.00 70 SimCity for Macintosh Sarrica 5.00 73 SimLife for Macintosh Sarrica 7.00 74 Disk Drive, Mac, 3.5" asp 0 77 Rose Parade & Breakfast brenner 0 78 Dark Sun AD&D Campaign Game bjorn 0
The last of the items zook donated has been sold. So scott, if are still planning a thank you note for that, the total sale price of zook's stuff was $158.50.
Thanks, Jan.
Total bids now stand at $1156.77
Say, did I end up buying a multi-IO card or something? I never got a "send a check" message on something along those lines.
You did, sort of. It's in the item.
If you want to bring your check to the next board meeting, I'm planning on being there, with a couple other things to deliver to people, and you can give the check to Grex on the spot.
Hmmm....by my calculations I have bought 4 items for a total of $25.50. If I'm wrong, someone please tell me, otherwise I'll mail the check...And who do I have to talk to to arrange pickup/delivery of this stuff?
Once we get the payment, the donor will be notified, then he/she will get in touch with you about delivery.
Speaking of which, do I take the Original Version of Dark Sun and give it to you (robh or popcorn) to give to dm, or do I send it to him myself?
You send it to him yourself, once you get confirmation that we've received the payment.
Got it.
My notes indicate jamie purchased the following: 39 Star Fleet Missions Card Game zook jamie 3.50 41 Air Assault on Crete Board Game zook jamie 11.00 47 PanzerBlitz Board Game zook jamie 6.00 50 Blitzkrieg Board Game zook jamie 5.00 68 S.C. Out Game for Macintosh Sarrica jamie 3.00 That's five items for a total of $28.50.
There are currently no items being bid on. There are a few things left that nobody ever bid on. The list is: ITEM WHAT DONOR 11 Mark Twain Performance blh 17e The Electronic Invasion Unknown 17g The Best Guide to Busin Shareware Unknown 17m Internet for Windows: AOL Edition Unknown 17n Using Compuserve to Make you Rich Unknown 56a Everex 386 DX-20 Motherboard ajax 56c Everex 386 SX-20 Motherboard ajax 56d 386 SX-16 Motherboard ajax 56e Pair of Everex 286-12 Boards ajax 56f Pair of Everex 286-10 Boards ajax 59b One-Port Serial Card Dominant 59c One-Port Serial Card Dominant 60a Monographics/Printer Card Dominant 60b Monographics/Printer Card Dominant 60c Monographics/Printer Card Dominant 61 Twelve MFM Disk controller Cards Dominant 66 Motorcycle battery Charger Sarrica 74 Disk Drive, Mac, 3.5" asp 77 Rose Parade & Breakfast brenner
Most items, however have been sold. The list is: ITEM WHAT DONOR BUYER PRICE 3 Astrology Chart Reading misha hematite 3.00 4 One Day's Work omni freida 20.00 5 A Week's Stay at WV Farm freida denise 60.00 6 Oil Painting of Your Choice freida natbaird 80.00 7 Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies qt314 denise 8.50 8a Homemade Whiskey Cake qt314 aruba 15.00 8b Homemade Whiskey Cake qt314 freida 20.00 9 Civilization II Game ajax aruba 28.00 10 Home Cooked Dinner for Two qt314 nephi 25.00 12 A Paradise SVGA video Card peacefrg kenb 7.00 13a Copy of Brighn's Novel brighn freida 16.00 13b Copy of Brighn's Novel brighn robh 15.00 13b Copy of Brighn's Novel brighn janc 11.00 14 Handcrafted Dreamcatcher otter scott 41.00 15 Porcupine Quill Earrings otter qt314 15.75 16 Homemade Chocolate Truffles arthurp wolfe 10.00 17a Inside the Information Revolution Unknown marian2 3.00 17b The Online Encyclopedia Unknown popcorn 2.50 17c Whole Earth Online Almanac Unknown kenb 3.00 17d Detour: Truth about Info Super Unknown nephi 5.00 17f Usenet: Netnews for Everyone Unknown coyote 2.50 17h Using Computer Bulletin Boards Unknown freida 1.00 17i Internet for Windows: MSN Edition Unknown freida 1.00 17j The Trail Guide to MSN Unknown freida 1.00 17k Web Browsing with MSN Unknown freida 1.00 17l The Underground Guide to MIA Unknown freida 1.00 19a Loaf of Homemade Bread omni bruin 3.00 19b Loaf of Homemade Bread omni robh 3.00 19c Loaf of Homemade Bread omni fuzzball 4.00 20 Two Loaves C-Chip Pumpkin Bread popcorn natbaird 15.00 21 A Pair of Grex Mugs Grex bjorn 18.00 22 WIQB Mouse Pad bruin bruin 2.00 23 C Programming Book robh nephi 12.00 24 Unix Primer Plus Book robh adbarr 7.51 25 Terry Pratchett's Nome Trilogy janc eeyore 75.00 26 Home-Made Bagels eeyore janc 12.00 27 Carrot Cake eeyore qt314 13.00 28 Fish & Coconut Necklace hematite wolfe 6.00 29 Cyrix 386 to 486 upgrade MPU ajax rickyb 53.00 30a Photo T-Shirt or Mug tsty denise 23.00 30b Photo T-SHirt or Mug tsty freida 24.00 31 The Grexbat adbarr aruba 70.00 32 Graphics for Your Webpage nephi aruba 16.00 33 One Dozen Scans nephi robh 30.00 34a A Peace Lily Plant popcorn freida 16.00 34b A Peace Lily Plant popcorn robh 15.00 35 Two Passes to the Movies bruin armada 15.00 36 Performance of "Into the Night" otter nephi 51.00 37 Castle of Magic Board Game zook robh 15.00 38 Feudal Board Game zook coyote 19.00 39 Star Fleet Missions Card Game zook jamie 3.50 40 Luftwaffe Board Game zook robh 12.00 41 Air Assault on Crete Board Game zook jamie 11.00 42 Squad Leader Board Game zook robh 10.00 43 Third Reich Board Game zook dm 8.00 44 Superstar Baseball Baord Game zook dm 5.50 45 Starship Troopers Board Game zook robh 10.00 46 Jutland Board Game zook robh 12.00 47 PanzerBlitz Board Game zook jamie 6.00 48 Modern Battles II Board Game zook robh 8.00 49 Napoleon at Waterloo Board Game zook dm 5.50 50 Blitzkrieg Board Game zook jamie 5.00 51 Marita-Merkur Board Game zook robh 6.00 52 Case White Board Game zook robh 4.00 53 Spain and Portugal Board Game zook robh 3.00 54 Magic: The Gathering Cards zook dm 15.00 55 Musical Entertainment davel aruba 15.00 56b Everex 386 DX-25 Motherboard ajax fredpett 5.00 58a Multi-I/O Card Dominant janc 2.00 58b Multi-I/O Card Dominant scott 2.50 58c Multi-I/O Card Dominant tsty 2.00 57 Orbit VGA card Dominant brighn 5.00 59a One-Port Serial Card Dominant kaplan 2.00 62 10-channel Cordless Phone Sarrica otter 23.50 63 Apple CD SC Sarrica rlawson 2.50 64 44MB Cartridge Drive Sarrica popcorn 6.00 65 Four 44MB Cartridges Sarrica popcorn 1.00 68 S.C. Out Game for Macintosh Sarrica jamie 3.00 67 WordPerfect Works for Macintosh Sarrica robh 8.00 69 Star Trek: TNG Audio Clips Sarrica otter 4.00 70 SimCity for Macintosh Sarrica aruba 5.00 72 RoboSport for Macintosh Sarrica dm 4.00 75a Spider Plant of Rare Variety asp popcorn 2.50 75b Spider Plant of Rare Variety asp robh 3.00 75c Spider Plant of Rare Variety asp qt314 3.25 76 Complete Set of Earth Magazine asp nephi 6.00 71 Victory at Sea for Macintosh Sarrica dm 5.00 73 SimLife for Macintosh Sarrica rlawson 10.00 78 Dark Sun AD&D Campaign Game bjorn dm 6.00 TOTAL 1164.51
On a per-user basis, the following are the totals for each user:
USER DONATED PURCHASED
adbarr 70.00 7.51
ajax 86.00
armada 15.00
arthurp 10.00
aruba 149.00
asp 14.75
bjorn 6.00 18.00
brighn 42.00 5.00
bruin 17.00 5.00
coyote 21.50
davel 15.00
denise 91.50
dm 49.00
eeyore 25.00 75.00
fredpett 5.00
freida 140.00 101.00
fuzzball 4.00
hematite 6.00 3.00
jamie 28.50
janc 75.00 25.00
kaplan 2.00
kenb 10.00
marian2 3.00
misha 3.00
natbaird 95.00
nephi 46.00 99.00
omni 30.00
otter 107.75 27.50
peacefrg 7.00
popcorn 46.00 12.00
qt314 68.50 32.00
rickyb 53.00
rlawson 12.50
robh 19.51 154.00
scott 43.50
tsty 47.00 2.00
wolfe 16.00
zook 158.50
Dominant 13.50
Grex 18.00
Unknown 21.00
Sarrica 72.00
Since it's looking to me like the auction is pretty much over, I've done a little extra work to double-check my sums. If anyone notices any mistakes, please point them out. But I'm pretty confident that I have all this right.
Um, I have no recollection of winning, or even bidding on, this "SC Out" game that I am supposed to have won...I don't think I would bid on it, as I am an all-PC person.... /esp
Wow, I do seem to have bid on it, and a few other Mac games....That's odd. Oh well, I will pay for it.
Many of us got carried away in the frenzy of bidding. :-)
I've already paid for my week in WVa [item 5?], will have to send in a check for the remainder... I lost all of my data when my HD crashed a month or so ago, so I guess I better go reread the items to double check the amounts and where to send payment.
Yes, people should definitely check my sums (though I'm pretty sure I got them right). Scan response 129 for your name in the BUYER column note the item numbers (in the first columns) and read those items. So denise would do "read 5,7,30" to read the three items where she won. A few of the final bids are vaguely ambiguous. For example, I'm not completely sure tsty really bought item 58c.
Re #129: I bought item 67, not robh.
Oops, mixed up my robs. So correct that to:
rlawson 20.50
robh 19.51 146.00
Thanks, Jan, for totalling all that stuff up. I was getting ready to do all that, when I got to this item and found you'd already done most the needed work. Thanks! Robh and I will be freezing the whole conference in about a week....
I would like to add my thanks to both robh and popcorn for all the work they did in putting this auction together. Also to anyone else who played a significant role in the organization and running of this auction. I think it was a lot of fun for all of us and made some good money for grex! HIP HIP HOORAY!
Hey is this still open to new donations? Busy as I am , I do have a cool one (took me forever to think of it, though).
I'm still waiting for confirmation of someone's payment - I need it so I know when to ship him his new property.
I'm waiting on confirmation for payment for most of the games, still.
We need to bug Mark for a list of which things are paid for. Scott -- Nope, we're not taking new donations right now. Is it something you can save until next spring? That seems about the right time to hold the next auction.
Yes, I can donate any time, or hold off indefinately. This would be one of those hand-crafted items that seem to do well.
Mark has probably sent confirmation for any payments received, so items without confirmation probably haven't been paid for yet. Tracking the bids, payments, and shipments for everything is a bit more complicated than I would have figured. Perhaps an auctioneer should update Jan's bid list, add a "payment received" column, and try e-mailing people with possibly unpaid purchases? (I suggest an auctioneer do it only because they might have archived e-mail about what's already been paid for).
Ja, I started out archiving the mail, but then Mark said he had a nice system set up for keeping track of what was paid for. I deleted the e-mail archives to free up disk space.
I still have all the e-mail I got confirming the various payments, but it's split up through three different files. I'll wait for aruba's data.
Yeah, I'll pass on a list of what's paid for just as soon as I get a chance. It's been quite a week...
Thanks Mark.
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Ok, I have finally reported on my findings. The only corrections to Jan's report are: dm's total should be $54, not $49 ajax's total should be $60 eeyore's total should be 0 And the final total should be $1154.51. We have received $856 of that, and are waiting to receive the other $298.51.
Spanks for the Update.
Awaits word on payment to Grex for a certain item, so that bjorn might get it out of his possession.
Which item is that, Bjorn?
As I e-mailed in response to aruba, that would equal confirmation of dm's payment to Grex for the original version of the Dark Sun boxed set I put up for bid.
You have several choices: