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Offline Regalblue

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MCAS auction pickups???
« on: February 18, 2012, 11:52:42 PM »
What did everyone get? 

Including sideline sales/trades I came home with -
  MCAS T-shirt, Piece of driftwood, hydroIII pond sponge, 2'tall stack of old TFH mags, 6-18" t8 bulbs, fluval edge aquarium, 200W Ebo Jager, lbs of 9/32 pellets,  2big cans of nutrafin spirulina sticks, cholla wood, 5H1TL04D of airline, 22 Cutteri, a L-340, spotted Raphael cat, 6 2" Synspilum, 4selfcloning crays, 2 marble crays,a specimen container & some water lettuce.

I had no control, lol
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Offline Rob S

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Re: MCAS auction pickups???
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2012, 12:32:17 AM »
I thought this auction might have been the best one of the Fall/Winter season. Really nice selection of everything. Some nice grown out specimens.
I came home with:

7 inch Borelyi, Same size Spilonotus, Dragon blood, (Thanks Nick), OB Peacock, (Thanks Rob), Exochromis Anagenys, Ps. Elongatus---all adult size and in great condition.

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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2012, 07:55:43 AM »
Just 1 bag of Lamp. shellies but they are sweet and it was nice to meet some of
people on this forum

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Re: MCAS auction pickups???
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 10:58:02 AM »
I picked up 7 Gold Zebra Fry, 12 Tropheops Olive / Checkered Fry, 1 Demasoni Juvy, 6" Z Rock, 6" Mloto Yellow Princess, 5" Twian Reef, And when I got home I found a cave full of Calico BN Pleco wigglers  8)

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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2012, 12:14:43 PM »
Bunch of dry goods, A 20g Long (brand new) 20g tall with stand, 2 150watt, 1 125watt, 75watt Ebo Jager heaters, 10gallon tank with light, H.O.T Magnum, Aquaclear mini power filter, Penguin 100 power filter, 2 25lb bags of gravel, 2 air pumps. And a few leads on some Fronts. 
« Last Edit: February 19, 2012, 03:44:37 PM by nwr2339 »
Nothing but a few empty tanks.

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Re: MCAS auction pickups???
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2012, 12:30:32 PM »
Got a Labidiochromis chismulae for my all male Malawi cabaret. 

It was a great auction for sellers.  The few things I wanted / had room for went much higher than my cheap butt would bid.  The auction had a ton of item too - I think I heard 1200?  That is huge.  And if the prices where good I see that as a sign that fish market is coming back strong.  I hope at future auctions that sellers will feel more comfortable to bring some of the rarer fish as well.  I brought a handful of items to sell and was very happy with the selling price of my items - the check I'll get will be for more than I hoped for.
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Re: MCAS auction pickups???
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2012, 12:52:55 PM »
I got a few 48" lights that I needed and a few things I didn't  ;D

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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2012, 05:34:01 PM »
Got a Labidiochromis chismulae for my all male Malawi cabaret. 

It was a great auction for sellers.  The few things I wanted / had room for went much higher than my cheap butt would bid.  The auction had a ton of item too - I think I heard 1200?  That is huge.  And if the prices where good I see that as a sign that fish market is coming back strong.  I hope at future auctions that sellers will feel more comfortable to bring some of the rarer fish as well.  I brought a handful of items to sell and was very happy with the selling price of my items - the check I'll get will be for more than I hoped for.
we had around 950 item's thanks for coming Jeff it"s always good to see you, now go get Tony better :D

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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2012, 09:00:48 AM »
Picked up a large P. "Freddy" for my lonely female.  They're hanging out together on either side of the divider, getting to know each other.  Also picked up a bag of Heterandria formosa (small native livebearers from the south), and a used filter to move a bunch of water in one of my pike tanks.

The selection of items was great; needed to excersize all control not to go grazy and load up the car with new stuff.

Next auction, though?!?

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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2012, 10:37:18 AM »
Well, they aren't cichlids but I brought home a trio of Tiger Limia and a pair of Chocolate Australe.

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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2012, 10:47:42 AM »
Got a Labidiochromis chismulae for my all male Malawi cabaret. 

It was a great auction for sellers.  The few things I wanted / had room for went much higher than my cheap butt would bid.  The auction had a ton of item too - I think I heard 1200?  That is huge.  And if the prices where good I see that as a sign that fish market is coming back strong.  I hope at future auctions that sellers will feel more comfortable to bring some of the rarer fish as well.  I brought a handful of items to sell and was very happy with the selling price of my items - the check I'll get will be for more than I hoped for.
we had around 950 item's thanks for coming Jeff it"s always good to see you, now go get Tony better :D

hmmm,  I thought I had heard 1200items registered.
950 is still a big amount.

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« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2012, 11:29:54 AM »
950 is still a very big auction!  Lots of quality stuff too.
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« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2012, 08:50:11 PM »
950 is still a very big auction!  Lots of quality stuff too.

The quality of the dry goods was the best I have seen yet..but then again this was only my 5th auction.
Nothing but a few empty tanks.

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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2012, 05:53:49 AM »
Was this the auction where they have a "buy it now" table? How does that work....like how many items can a person put there etc.? Does it encourage more of the rarer stuff that folks would normally hold back from an auction for fear of not getting a good price for their good stuff?
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2012, 07:17:02 AM »
Was this the auction where they have a "buy it now" table? How does work....how many items can a person put there etc.? Does it encourage more of the rarer stuff that folks would normally hold back from an auction for fear of not getting a good price for their good stuff?
you can put up to 5 items at the BIN table and at  the end of the BIN time the seller can remove the item or
it goes right into the auction. 1200 items was the pre-registration some people that pre resgister
didn't show up with their item's or didn't bring in the same amount they register