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[JAC]

Is it true he is selling his collection because he has had enough with all the postal problems. Items get lost and some ebay sellers refuse to ship to Italy.

[Marcin]

Very nice collection ! Not nice is that he is saling it :-/ I deal with him many times.

[hugo929]

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[g0b]

I think I have a good news for you all...

After thinking a bit, I decided to buy this collection. There was (a very very few) CPUs I (really really) wanted, and I think it would be nice that everybody here could enrich their collection with those very nice items.

This is how I see the things :
- I take the ones I want (around 15 or so.)
- I will list (with detail pictures) all the other here (BTW, a special section as for Debs would be nice I think)
- All members can make public offers during x (TBD) days with let's say, a 1 hour rule for instance, to avoid snipping
- At the end, if offers are decent (My purpose is not to make money with this, but not to loose too much either !), it goes to the higher bidder, otherwise it is relisted on ebay (auction or buy it know, depending upon item)

This would garantee :
- Members have priority to get the items
- And can get them at a lower price than ebay

Tell me if you find that fair. I'm opened to any ideas !

Thanks,
g0b

[Windmiller]

[michefe]

[faber]

I think it's good way

[Mixeur]

auctions sucks

[g0b]

[Chiefish]

I think its a great idea, Thanks Gob.
I was wondering what happened to the auction on ebay when i saw it ended, because it didnt look like anyone purchased it. I am flexible with the format , either an auction style like debs did or a post youre price and snatch it the fastest, altho i think the auction style is more fair, since most of us cant sit at our computers for a week straight to snag the ones we want.

[tlccomp]

I'm not a big fan of auctions either but in this situation it's probably the best and more fair way to handle this.

[iguana]

I like defined auction very much.
Each item must have "Starting bid" - "Buy it now"

for example:

for D4040 it will be:
D4040 10-30

Bidder can make offer from 10 to 29, or get it for 30 right away

imho it's not too difficult to write down two numerals right from item name.

[Mixeur]

[debs3759]

The auction format for my sale was a special case, and I don't think it was intended to become something that might get repeated in most cases. My reasons for giving up my large collection were why Genna allowed me to auction my collection, in order to enable me to focus more on my relationship with God.

I am in two minds about what might be good here:
1) An auction format for a collection like this would ensure it stayed in this community. That would enable people who only want specific chips to try and get them, without too much excessive fighting for chips.
2) It could set a precedent and be seen as creating peer pressure on Genna, making it hard to avoid the same thing being demanded on many other occasions. Would this then ultimately be used to put pressure on Genna to allow open auctions for everyone?