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Re: James Brown's Parts Sale, Mark II
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:54:38 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, James Brown writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, James Brown writes:
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/sale.html

OK, several folks came back to me with confusion over the start time, so I've
updated the webpage to read as follows:
"Parts will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, starting at 12:01 • AM,
Saturday February 12th (2000), Mountain Standard Time."

I've also had several people point out that my prices are low, and that odds
are most parts are probably going to go in the first couple hours.

This is intentional.  The reason I'm running a sale is because I'm not overly
interested in profit(1), and because I don't want to deal with the hassle of
either running an auction, or having someone else run it for me.

Given that, I think that a first-come, first-served sale, at a start time
announced several days ahead(2), is the most "fair" way of doing it.

Am I out to lunch here, or was I just not clear enough at the beginning?


I just gotta make things worse: 1st come 1st served on messages *received*
after 12:01 (or 12:01 on the dot)?  As opposed to sent - I have to guess the
lag time between when I send it and when you receive it.  :-O

Nothing is ever simple.  :-)

Bruce



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(...) I can't do anything about the lag time of e-mail. Sorry. What I will do, since it seems to be an issue, is check my mail AT midnight on Friday, and disregard any orders I've received, regardless of their timestamp. Thereafter, it's the order I (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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(...) updated the webpage to read as follows: "Parts will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, starting at 12:01 AM, Saturday February 12th (2000), Mountain Standard Time." I've also had several people point out that my prices are low, and (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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