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Re: Thoughts on having preferred customers in auctions
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Date: 
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:37:47 GMT
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Jeff Johnston wrote in
> If you want to be nice to these friends of yours, you might want to do
> something like a 'pre-auction'.  Set up a mailing list with all of them on it,
> put on the sets you think they'd like with a minimum price you think is fair
> to you and them, and say 'Best offer in a week gets it.'  Anything that isn't
> sold in that goes into your regular auction.


This is what I've done in the past and it seems to have worked fairly well.
As a rule first I offer stuff to Larry P, then to a list of others, then
I'll run an auction (and Larry will bid :)

Moz



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(...) James has a point. Regarding your idea of giving a discount - I can say that I would definitely feel it was as unfair as any other tactic that would drive up the prices in an auction, and if I knew the auctioneer was going to do so, I'd be far (...) (28 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)

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