Re: [AGA-mcm] Fwd: AGA Convention

["Sean Murphy" <seancmurphy@hotmail.com>]

I guess we were too bull headed to use the Seattle system, oh wait, was it 
offered to us?

Sean C. Murphy
SCM Tourney Boards / Fisheries Biologist
There is a fine line between fishing and standing on the bank looking like 
an idiot.

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----Original Message Follows----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Reply-To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Fwd: AGA Convention
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:46:15 -0800 (PST)

> From: redragon40@aol.com <redragon40@aol.com>

> 3.  Have the bidder numbers start at one, but have the lot numbers
> begin, say, in the 500's.  That way the bidder number can not be
> confused with the lot number.  Or, in one club, the seller number
> begins the lot number for the same reason.  Thus, a lot number is
> always hyphenated.  Then lot number 12-406 means seller number 12, and
> lot number 406.

I was explaining this to Scott after the auction that in Seattle's club, the 
bidder and seller numbers are the same, and they start at *100* and the lot 
numbers start at 500 or so.  This way, the auction software can't be messed 
up by swapping the bidder number and the amount of the bid (except on very 
expensive items).  I found in our first trial that this happened all the 
time ("Three Dollars to bidder number 4" ended up entered as "bidder number 
3 bids 4 dollars" on the form).  In my program, a non-registered bidder 
number flags an error and makes you re-enter.

We don't tie the lot numbers by seller, becuase we pre-print and barcode all 
the labels.  It works pretty nicely.

  - Erik

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