Re: SILENT AUCTION - OSLG
Hello Gus,
I am wondering if you may be opening a can of worms. Different ISPs send
out all of thier E-Mails at different times and on different schedules.
If some people place their bid at 9:59 EST there is no guarantee that
you will recieve it within the hour even. How will you make the final
determination? Are you going to take the final E-Mail that you "recieve"
at 10 am EST or the final one that was "sent" by 10 am and could you
tell the difference. Could get ugly.
Just a little concerned for your safety Gus, No problems if the seeds
turn out to be duds, but if they produce the new record..........well,
lets just say that I would be looking into Kevlar suits and armored
cars. I have heard that people have gotten a little "Roughed up" over
some "questionable" compost. I hate to hear what they could do over
some seed deal that goes sour. Just look at what the penalty is for
Pumpkin Humour. Beware.....BEWARE!!!!
Mark
Gus Saunders wrote:
>
> Yes, I guess all of us don't know what a silent auction is. Usually it is
> a piece of foolscap where you make a bid for an object and place the amount
> and your name on the foolscap. someone else comes along and if they want
> to make a better bid, they just write what they bid and put down their
> name. And on, and on, until the time limit when the last bid is accepted.
>
> Try and visualize Farmer Gus standing up there with a mike and a gravel and
> 2 seeds in his hand looking for auction bids on 2 seeds. Growers will
> start bidding and the seeds will be sold to the highest bidder. Everyone
> bidding and all those gathered around will know who was, and is bidding and
> what they are bidding and who had the final bid and what they paid.
>
> This time we are doing bidding on the Internet. If you are interested in
> owning and then planting the two Ciliberto 697 seeds, make a bid by sending
> an Email to pumpkins@mallorn.com and saying "I bid $30.00 for the two
> Ciliberto 697 seeds - Frank Frankster".
>
> All of us now know Frank Frankster has bid $30.00 for the 2 seeds. If you
> want to bid on the seeds and value them more; you up the bid and say "I bid
> $35.00 for the two Ciliberto 697 seeds - Sally Sangster"
>
> And on, and on until at 10:00 a.m. EST Thursday, 12 March when the final
> bid at that time will be the accepted bid and that grower gets the two
> Ciliberto 697 (94) seeds.
>
> All the best!
>
> Gus Saunders
> Ottawa-St.Lawrence Growers
>
> http://infoweb.magi.com/~farmrgus/
>
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