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Message no. 1
From: Walter Stim <wstim%avma27@*************.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:51:29 CDT
>On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
>
>> Now, I am also willing to auction off a couple of things. I'll print up a
>> couple copy of NERPS manuals, bind them, and sign them with my very own
>> illegible Bob Hancock. I also have a couple of out of print Magic: The
>> Gathering cards I'm willing to auction. As this would be a "charity"
>> auction, we'd start the bids at a flat $10.

Jason Ustica * Coming to you from Lancaster,CA * Email: usticaj@****.com>
>Oh man, this idea rocks! As it seems I'm one of the only ones on this
>list who has absolutely no luck when it comes to Postscript files, I will
>gladly start the bidding for the NERPS manuals printed, bound, and signed
>by the great RH himself at $10! As for the Magic: The Madness cards, you
>can keep 'em. :)

I will raise the bidding for an autographed, bound addition of
NERPS to $15.

Michael Stim
Message no. 2
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@****.INFORMATIK.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:55:51 +0200
Michael Stim wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
> >> Now, I am also willing to auction off a couple of things. I'll print up a
> >> couple copy of NERPS manuals, bind them, and sign them with my very own
> >> illegible Bob Hancock. I also have a couple of out of print Magic: The
> >> Gathering cards I'm willing to auction. As this would be a
"charity"
> >> auction, we'd start the bids at a flat $10.
> Jason Ustica * Coming to you from Lancaster,CA * Email: usticaj@****.com>
> >Oh man, this idea rocks! As it seems I'm one of the only ones on this
> >list who has absolutely no luck when it comes to Postscript files, I will
> >gladly start the bidding for the NERPS manuals printed, bound, and signed
> >by the great RH himself at $10! As for the Magic: The Madness cards, you
> >can keep 'em. :)
> I will raise the bidding for an autographed, bound addition of
> NERPS to $15.
> Michael Stim
Hm... the NERPS- and NAGEE-Books are available as RTFs, so don't bother
with the Postscript-Files :-)

Sascha
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Message no. 3
From: Jason Ustica <usticaj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:38:54 -0700
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Sascha Pabst wrote:

> Michael Stim wrote:
(short bidding war deeleted)
> Hm... the NERPS- and NAGEE-Books are available as RTFs, so don't bother
> with the Postscript-Files :-)

Yeah, but I have NO luck with anything but ascii. I'm not sure what my
problem is, perhaps it's my peice o' crap computer, perhaps it's just me,
but anything besides ascii would be a 100% improvement at this point.

Somethign else about this bidding, I'm just realizing that if I up the
bid, someone else may up the bid, and so on, and the price may jump into
the $20-$30 range, which is a bit much IMO for my bank account (sorry not
much extra spending money these days). SO... how about instead of
bidding, we just sell copies of NERPS or whatever for a flat $10-$12?
Sound good?

--
Jason Ustica * Coming to you from Lancaster,CA * Email: usticaj@****.com
Message no. 4
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:58:53 -0500
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On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Jason Ustica wrote:

> Somethign else about this bidding, I'm just realizing that if I up the
> bid, someone else may up the bid, and so on, and the price may jump into
> the $20-$30 range, which is a bit much IMO for my bank account (sorry not
> much extra spending money these days). SO... how about instead of
> bidding, we just sell copies of NERPS or whatever for a flat $10-$12?
> Sound good?

No. FASA said that is naughty.

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Message no. 5
From: Jason Ustica <usticaj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:17:20 -0700
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Robert A. Hayden wrote:

> > Somethign else about this bidding, I'm just realizing that if I up the
> > bid, someone else may up the bid, and so on, and the price may jump into
> > the $20-$30 range, which is a bit much IMO for my bank account (sorry not
> > much extra spending money these days). SO... how about instead of
> > bidding, we just sell copies of NERPS or whatever for a flat $10-$12?
> > Sound good?
>
> No. FASA said that is naughty.

And that's any different than bidding? I'm not talking about selling to
the general public, only to listmembers to raise money for our Drive Drive.

--
Jason Ustica * Coming to you from Lancaster,CA * Email: usticaj@****.com
Message no. 6
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:29:31 -0500
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On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Jason Ustica wrote:

> And that's any different than bidding? I'm not talking about selling to
> the general public, only to listmembers to raise money for our Drive Drive.

Selling the books is bad. What we are going to do, however,it give them
away to thise that bid th highest for the hard drive. It's an incentive.

And just so you know, it costs about 10 bucks to print, bind and ship the
book.

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Message no. 7
From: Gary Carroll <gary@****.COM>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:33:57 -0700
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>On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Jason Ustica wrote:
>
>And that's any different than bidding? I'm not talking about selling
>to the general public, only to listmembers to raise money for our
>Drive Drive.
>
>Selling the books is bad. What we are going to do, however,it give
>them away to thise that bid th highest for the hard drive. It's
>an incentive.
>
>And just so you know, it costs about 10 bucks to print, bind and
>ship the book.
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So what's the scoop? Is this for real
are you going to go ahead with this (and is it OK?).

If so... What are you actually giving as a prize.
Nerps? Nagee? Nagee1,2,3,4,5,6,(7)? RunnerGear?

Thanks
Gary C.
Message no. 8
From: Jason Ustica <usticaj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: ADMIN: Drive Drive? Bidding war?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:07:23 -0700
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Robert A. Hayden wrote:

> Selling the books is bad. What we are going to do, however,it give them
> away to thise that bid th highest for the hard drive. It's an incentive.

So another idea could be, we send in our "donation" and in return we
happen to get a copy of NERPS or NAGEE as a token of the list's
gratitude. That would allow the "donation" price to remain at a fixed
level instead of a bidding, winner-takes-all, then-shells-out-large-chunk-
of-cash system like we're planning on now.

> And just so you know, it costs about 10 bucks to print, bind and ship the
> book.

So why don't we make the fixed donation price $20, $10 for the drive, $10
to cover expenses? The donators get a nice book and contribute half of
their money to the Drive drive. I don't think FASA would have a problem
with that (unless they hire TSR's lawyers).

I think we have the potential to raise more money using a fixed rate
system rather than a bidding system. If only 5 people donated, you'd get
$100 dollars, but spread out the cost over five people. If one person bid
$100 (I sure as hell wouldn't), that one person would be shelling out a
ton of money, and only that person would get the books. The rest of
people who bid would be left emptyhanded an also none of them would have
contributed anything to the Drive drive.

--
Jason Ustica * Coming to you from Lancaster,CA * Email: usticaj@****.com

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