Re: What to expect at the auction this year?

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Barbie wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Erik.  I didn't realize it was "allowed" for
> someone to use my email from the list to send me nasty email.  I do now.  
> It won't happen again.  I guess I should have used an email that isn't
> my personal one.

Even if you don't use a personal e-mail address, someone, even a
non-member, can pop over to the website and read the archives, and get
that particular e-mail address off the archives and send you mail.  We
have no control over this.  I guess this is different behavior if you are
used to web forums where you have to badmouth someone publicly (though
even there, I beleive one can send private e-mail). 

> I wasn't actually asking about the meetings.  I do realize they have had
> those dates for years.  I was simply asking about the annual auction.

Ah, that's another tradition here at GSAS that differs from almost every
other club out there, along with our funky triple-auctioneer style, and
not holding meetings during the summer.  We've always kinda thought of the
annual auction as "one of our meetings".  In fact, for me personally,
until my wife and I started travelling to other clubs around the country
(yes, we do this too...ACA and NEC are our two favorite "national"
conventions), we had no idea that other clubs even had all-day auctions.

Again, the issue of the weekday-vs-weekend is still relevant.  Sister club
GPAS holds an annual big show yet I beleive has real trouble sometimes
getting enough folks at the auction on Sunday ("do I want to waste my
sunday sitting around bidding on fish stuff?").  The Kitsap Aquarium
Society's once-big annual weekend show completely withered away five years
ago (followed shortly by the club itself).

We sometimes get out-of-towners from Portland or Vancouver at the two 
auctions... in previous years, we'd have four or five people flopping on 
our futons and floor & going back the next day.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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