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Badmike
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:30 pm

Prufrock wrote:My Auction Strategy:

When in direct bidding war with British Acaeum members I will:
1) remind them who WON that other war some 200 years ago.
2) offer them copious amounts of BEER
When in direct bidding war with Canadian Acaeum members:
1) explain to them that no one cares about hockey
2) sing the "lumberjack" song
3) offer them copious amounts of BEER
When in direct bidding war with Aussie Acaeum members:
1) first assess the chance that they brought one of the continents many poisonious man-killing critters with them:
A) if I think they did bring one of the nasty creatures: give up
B) if I think they did not: offer copious amounts of BEER
When in direct bidding war with fellow American Acaeum members:
   1) get Alan to pull their hands down
   2) if it is Stratochamp: give up
   3) if they should be anyone of the many Texans: tell that I would allow their "wonderful" state to actually succede from the Union of the United States if they would simply give up.
   4) if it is Badmike: offer case of Redeye Cafe Bacon Cheeseburgers
   5) offer copious amounts of BEER
When in direct bidding war with anyone NOT an Aceaum member:
   1) expect other Acaeum members to "take care of the situation"

If all else fails: slip Frank a fifty "for an order of a dozen snickerdoddle cookies"

Martin

Honestly....

Sounds about right. :wink:

I'd drop out for less than a case....maybe a half dozen.

Mike B.

"THE MORE YOU THINK ABOUT WHY i DONE WHAT i DONE THE MORE i LAUGH" Cougar
"The Acaeum hates fun" Sir Allen
"I had a collecting emergency" Nogrod
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Badmike
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:51 pm

ExTSR wrote:About a decade ago, when the collectibles were on Saturday night, I realized that the heavy hitters were sitting on their money all thru Fri/Sat. Plus we started getting a LOT mroe collectibles, so much so that they demanded more time.

I thus started the Friday Night Supers -- the best/rarest collectibles in the entire 11,000+ piece auction -- and it worked great. Any duplicates, runners-up, etc. got put into a Saturday Night collectibles run, which also worked great.

Nowadays there are so many semi-collectibles (print-run monochromes, for example) that we run those on Thursday night, along with some less-than-top-quality white boxes and non-TSR RPG rares (tho some of the latter might otherwise qualify for the Fri/Sat sessions).

So there's a lot of really good stuff up EVERY night.
But Friday night is where the Ultras appear, especially in the Finale.
I'm bringing one item for the Finale. I'll tell ya when the time is nearer.

F

Well, it was the first Gencon I've attended, but IMO dividing up the rares and having the ultras Friday night worked GREAT. I thought you had better attendance and the items went for the highest possible price. My only complaint was the auction running overtime late Saturday caused a few items to go for less than what I thought, but as long as they don't have a ridiculous Spawn car to shill this year :roll:

, it should be much better and run on time. The amount of time wasted on trying to sell that thing TWO nights was just nuts.

For all out there, the auction is truly one of the great spectator sports at Gencon. I attended the nightly auctions Thursday through Saturday and although I bought a mere handful of items, and nothing over $20, I was absolutely riveted each evening as (inevitably) two or more Acaeum members went at it mano a mano. Truly great entertainment! And Frank does a masterful job, I hope he's once again handling the rares this year (particularly since I should have a few items going this year and Frank gets the best prices!).

Mike B.

"THE MORE YOU THINK ABOUT WHY i DONE WHAT i DONE THE MORE i LAUGH" Cougar
"The Acaeum hates fun" Sir Allen
"I had a collecting emergency" Nogrod
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Johnson
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:24 am

Oh cr*p.

The airline we intended to use has gone out of business.

Heres trawling the flight pages!

Cheers,
malc

killjoy32
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:41 am

lawrenson wrote:Oh cr*p.

The airline we intended to use has gone out of business.

Heres trawling the flight pages!

Cheers,
malc

DOH! malc - there should still be loads of flights available mate.

Are we nearly there yet?

sauromatian
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:52 pm

lawrenson wrote:The airline we intended to use has gone out of business.

Just be glad you weren't in the middle of a flight with them when it happened.

Prufrock wrote: 3) if they should be anyone of the many Texans: tell that I would allow their "wonderful" state to actually succede from the Union of the United States if they would simply give up.

Hmm, that sounds fair. Offer accepted.

Johnson
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:34 pm

Hi,

so, are any of you lot in this video then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_mlloaUOkQ

Cheers,
Malc

Plaag
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:45 pm

lawrenson wrote:Hi,

so, are any of you lot in this video then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_mlloaUOkQ

Cheers,
Malc

Well I didn't see myself in that.

ShaneG.

I reject your reality and substitute my own

killjoy32
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:56 am

nope i am not on it either - thank god!

sheesh some big folk on that!

Al

Are we nearly there yet?

grodog
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:20 pm

ExTSR wrote:Still awaiting Character Selection from:
Center_Stage_Hobbies
Grodog
NetRodent*

Preferences sent

Allan Grohe (grodog@gmail.com)
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Badmike
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:34 pm

killjoy32 wrote:nope i am not on it either - thank god!

sheesh some big folk on that!

Al

Please kill me before I get man-boobs like that guy in the green shirt

Mike B.

"THE MORE YOU THINK ABOUT WHY i DONE WHAT i DONE THE MORE i LAUGH" Cougar
"The Acaeum hates fun" Sir Allen
"I had a collecting emergency" Nogrod
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Kingofpain89
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:06 pm

Badmike wrote:
Please kill me before I get man-boobs like that guy in the green shirt

Mike B.

I'll have to remember to bring my gun to our next D&D session. You are already pushing a C-cup Mike.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

killjoy32
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:41 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:
I'll have to remember to bring my gun to our next D&D session. You are already pushing a C-cup Mike.

Are we nearly there yet?

ExTSR
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:33 pm

Update... Update... Update...

TIME SLOTS:

Some have not yet responded (see below), but at this point the tentative schedule is starting to look like:

Red Team Friday 2-6
Green Team Saturday 10-2

TEAMS

One change in Team Membership has been approved:

Rabbit_67 has been moved to the Green Team, trading with
NetRodent (moved to the Red Team).

MIA -- Need Info!

I still don't have characters from:

Center_Stage_Hobbies
NetRodent

No time slot preferences from:

Blackmoor, Center_Stage_Hobbies, Killjoy, NetRodent

For Sale?

Although I'm putting this adventure into the auction, it'll be a donation for Charity, and will thus be sold off Saturday 6-ish, well after we're done playing. So there. ;>

F

Blackmoor
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:49 pm

ExTSR wrote:Update... Update... Update...

TIME SLOTS:

Some have not yet responded (see below), but at this point the tentative schedule is starting to look like:

Red Team Friday 2-6
Green Team Saturday 10-2

TEAMS

One change in Team Membership has been approved:

Rabbit_67 has been moved to the Green Team, trading with
NetRodent (moved to the Red Team).

MIA -- Need Info!

I still don't have characters from:

Center_Stage_Hobbies
NetRodent

No time slot preferences from:

Blackmoor, Center_Stage_Hobbies, Killjoy, NetRodent

For Sale?

Although I'm putting this adventure into the auction, it'll be a donation for Charity, and will thus be sold off Saturday 6-ish, well after we're done playing. So there. ;>

F

Ok so my personell E-mail is on the fritz right now. Anyway Frank I have true dungeon fom 1:30 to 3:30 on saturday, can we find a little different time slot, perhaps start at 9:00 instead of 10:00?

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

killjoy32
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:50 pm

frank: time slot, i am quite happy to just fit in with the rest of the majority of my team dude.

Al

Are we nearly there yet?

ExTSR
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:25 pm

(bump)
(so I can find this next week for more announcements)

Kingofpain89
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:30 am

According to the Gen Con newsletter I got in my email the other day, Tom Wham is going to be there this year. Glad to hear that. I mentioned it to Al last night and I think he about wet his pants. I guess he is happy to hear about it too.

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. - Homer Simpson

grodog
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:17 am

I'm back into the "iffy" attendee category, alas.

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