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Announcing Bill's Monorail auction
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lugnet.market.auction
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:21:48 GMT
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Announcing Bill & Doug's Monorail Auction
Or: Bill and Doug's 11th Excellent Adve^H^H^Huction.
THings have been pretty busy here, but at last I get this started.
Included here are 6990, 6991, and two 6399s, as well as other track.
I have attempted to detail the condition of each set carefully,
use the 'describe' command to check on an item's condition.
Erik Wilson and his brother Rolf have most graciously made their
auction-bot program available, and I have set it up for this auction.
The address of the auction-bot is: auction@mrfws1.innovation.com.
Mail for the auction must be sent directly to the auction-bot,
with the words "monorail auction" in the SUBJECT line.
The most important commands to get started are:
name <name you want to be known by in this auction>
describe *
help
The short form of help is appended below.
For those that have trouble with e-mail syntax, or are just more
comfortable with the web, I introduce:
A WEB INTERFACE TO THE AUCTIONBOT!!
Point your browser to:
http://mrfws1.innovation.com/~auction/index.html
There you can see the results of my previous several auctions,
as well as the current status of the "monorail" auction.
I'm sorry but the web-based bidding tool is still broken. I hope to
have it fixed someday soon. Probably after I move to a different
server.
Attached is the complete description of the lots.
Happy Bidding!
-Bill Katz
billk@wald-kramer.com
-Doug Finney
dfinney@wt.net
Really short help:
To get a decription of all of the items in the auction, send the message:
describe *
to place a bid, the format is:
bid i0110 $1.00
^^^^^
This is the code listed in the results of the describe command.
help commands gives the complete syntax that the auction-server understands.
__________________________________________________________________________
There are several different help files that can be requested
by sending mail to auction@mrfws1.innovation.com with "monorail auction"
in the subject line and one or more of the following lines
in the body of the message:
help
returns this short help message
help rules
returns the auction rules including how to settle up your
auction account and where to send payment.
help commands
returns the long description of the auctionbot commands
help auctionbot
will return (when we are finished woking on the program
and writing documentation for the auctionmaster program)
information on how to obtain and use the auctionbot program
help faq
will return the currrent version of the frequently asked
questions list for the auctionbot program and monorail auction.
help auction
will return all the help files listed above plus some
extra information about the system used to create the
lot identifiers for LEGO pieces.
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Here is an example of a first message to the auctionbot
name Silverhammer
alias joe@whitehouse.gov
bid ZA0170 1.50
des cf*
obs cf*
start obs
sk0370
sk0470
sk0570
pn0110
py1010
end
help auction
update
This message establishes the bidders "name" as Silverhammer
(which cannot be changed, easily at least), establishes a
second email address from which bids may be sent, places a bid of
$1.50 on item ZA0170, requests the immediate return by email
of the complete descriptions of all castle minifigure lot,
places all of those same castle minifigure items on the
bidders observation list, also places sk0370, sk0470, sk0570,
pn0110 and py1010 on the observation list, asks for the return
of the whole help file immediately by email and also the status
of all items in the bidders current observation list (includingw
item ZA0170 and all castle minifigures). The first lines
in the observation list may look something like this:
CF1070 n Cross Ax Footmen (4) - ----- $4.00
CF1181 n crossed ax knight (1) 1 Gustavus $2.25
Explanation of Fields
CF1070/CF1181 lot identifiers
n no "quick sale bid"
Cross Ax... Short descriptions
(typed in by different people!)
- no opening bid yet
1 going once
(nothing in this space denotes a
bid made 24-48 hours ago, not
including weekends)
----- no bidder yet
Gustavus name of current high bidder
$4.00 bid to open
$2.25 current high bid (by Gustavus)
rk0040 50.00 n 6347 monorail accessory tracks and points New in sealed box
additional track elements and two points for the monorail sets 6399,
6990, 6991.
rk0010 40.00 n 6347 monorail accessory tracks and points Used, with box
additional track elements and two points for the monorail sets 6399,
6990, 6991.
rk0140 150.00 n 6399 airport shuttle
the set is used but should be complete (maybe some suitcases missing),
box is damaged and has no plastic inlays anymore, original directions,
stickers mostly complete this is the monorail set for your town layout.
rk0240 300.00 n 6399 airport shuttle
New in box, end seals intact. Glue holding top flap to back of box
dried out, and flap is loose.
This is the monorail set for your town layout.
rk0340 50.00 n 6921 monorail accessory set
New in sealed box; Box in excellent condition.
the original accessory set for the 6990 monorail, also fits to 6399 and
6991.
rk0440 120.00 n 6990 monorail transport system
used, but complete with original directions (in fair condition), no box
this is the first monorail set coming from the space theme "futuron".
rk0540 200.00 n 6991 monorail transport base, New, in box.
Box seals broken, but all polybag and display tray seals intact.
the last monorail produced by lego (yet) from the "unitron" space theme.
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