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Re: KillieTalk Digest V3 #1613



> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:20:36 -0400
> From: "Jay-Scott Moylan" <sifumoylan at adelphia_net>
> Subject: Re: Convention St. Louis Memorial Day Weekend 2002
> 
> Tom said,
> 
>    First: If you use a Class ID - then to have an organized auction you
> would be required to auction by class - because the standard order is
> Class# - Entry Number  (ie: Class 5 Entry 7)  Thus to organize the list -
> you are required to auction the class completely before moving on.
> 
>         Why does that have to be standard?  Why not Convention entry/auction
> #, followed by class# and class entry letter a-z, aa-zz, aaa-zzz?
> 
>         For example: Fish #1,207 - Class 5 - entry cc.  This would then the
> 1,207th fish registered at the convention.  It would compete in Class 5.  It
> would be 29th fish entered into Class 5 (i.e. cc).  This would then be lot
> #1,207 in a really BIG auction.
> 
> Jay Moylan


Aggh.

Umm, as attendee and/or worker at the last 10 AKA conventions plus a
couple
of local club weekends (including this year's ACA convention), a few
WCW's and
innumerable local club auctions, you have to realize that suggesting
sorting, auctioning
by class (which I personally despise as I have to sit through lots and
lots of classes
that I don't care about), auctioning by fuzzy entry number in order by
class and
so forth would prevent me from helping run such an auction or
convention. Too much
work for no benefit to the club or the auction attendees, and it'll
drive the prices
down.

I think Tom G.s and others suggestions are right on; the
convention is your best opportunity to see and acquire incredibly rare
fish, and it's
a *ton* of work for the local club. The auction is your  chance to pay
very little
for something rare (I still miss the A. franzwerneri I got in LA in 1993
for $8 for
a pair because no one was paying attention) or too much for somethig
common ( I don't mind having been outbid at
$105 for the first pair of Aplo. lineatus "Gold" in 1994 I ever saw)

It's fun, it supports AKA, and making it harder for a local
club to run will mean AKA will regularly face the problem of no one
offering to
run the convention.

Personally, I'd like to see the N&RS fish go first or be the most common
lots in
the earliest groups when people pay the most, and then auction at
random. The auction
should go as fast as possible, with the goal of getting the highest
possible price
for the fish.

Matt
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