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Re: auczilla XII: got yours yet?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:25:00 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Brian Lanning wrote:
> After going through our (one) parts auction, i can speak from experience. The
> software you use to manage the auction can have a huge impact on how things
> go. It can turn an uncontrollable monster into something managable. But
> there's no way to get around sorting the bricks. My wife did most of the
> sorting while holding a baby.
So did you manage things by opening the sets, sorting all the bricks into
containers, then picking the pieces for each lot from the containers?
Or was it more like you opened each set, sorted the parts directly to the
lots?
Or something else?
> Now that the baby is running around the house
> measuring every object with his mouth while screaming no, it really isn't
> practical for us to run an auction anymore.
Been there.
> When we're in the new house and
> the baby slows down a bit, that may change.
Great! We'll check back in about 10 years.
> Let's
> just hope [Todd] doesn't have children any time soon, or at least until bulk
> ordering is well under way. :-)
Amen!
Steve
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| (...) My parts auction had variable lot sizes so I couldn't pre-sort into lots. My software did a lot of the work for me. Here's how it went: I counted each piece type and color and entered it into my software so that it ended up in an access (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: auczilla XII: got yours yet?
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| After going through our (one) parts auction, i can speak from experience. The software you use to manage the auction can have a huge impact on how things go. It can turn an uncontrollable monster into something managable. But there's no way to get (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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