[Accrs] Brass Estate Sale answer and more information

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

Found this in the NMRA magazine.

More info on the auctions.

Dean


On 11/1/2015 1:58 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Dean&  Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
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> Ted
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> I found an item that was interesting.   It appears all the opening 
> bids are $10 for each item.    So, on eBay, I entered a bid of $10.   
> I was asked to register for the auction.   Very simple with only a 
> couple of questions.   Once I did that, I could go and bid on any of 
> the items.
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> Now, here is where it gets interesting.   My bid doesn't show yet.   I 
> think it will when the item comes up for auction by whoever is running 
> the auction.   The item may only be available for a few minutes as 
> occurs with an auction house.    That would mean that I would have to 
> enter my maximum bid now and hope no one else bids higher as I am not 
> going to sit around and wait for it to come up.   I think they will 
> send an e-mail telling you it is coming up, but I am not sure.
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> Never seen one of these auctions, so I don't know how to know when 
> your item comes up for auction, at which time you could continually 
> enter bids, as the bids on the item goes up.  Something new for eBay 
> and those of us that bid on items.
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> Dean
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> On 11/1/2015 1:33 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
>> Message From: Theodore Tullytullyme2 at gmail.com
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>> Tony,
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>> Where do you find the auction?
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>> Regards,
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>> Ted
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>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad 
>> Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org <mailto:accrs at mail.accrs.org>> wrote:
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>>     Message From: Tony Long tony.long at outlook.com
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>>     that collection looks like one of everything from ~1970 to 1980's
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>>     > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:24:28 -0700
>>     > To: accrs at mail.accrs.org <mailto:accrs at mail.accrs.org>
>>     > From: accrs at mail.accrs.org <mailto:accrs at mail.accrs.org>
>>     > Subject: [Accrs] Brass Estate Sale
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>>     > Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis lewis2 at earthlink.net
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>>     > members,
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>>     > A huge estate sale of brass locomotives. Not sure how this
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>>     > eBay, but it is a live auction. HO and O.
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>>     http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=111796949819&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_ssn=stoutauctions&_pgn=2&_skc=200&rt=nc
>>     <http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=111796949819&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_ssn=stoutauctions&_pgn=2&_skc=200&rt=nc>
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>>     > Dean
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