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Rares Fest Silent Auction Houses Rules & Information

Sadie-

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Asuka Rares Fest 2023 Silent Auction Rules
All times are EST

!! You MUST include your prominent stratics name or ICQ number when bidding, IF you do not your bid will be deleted and you risk being banned from the auction. !!

There will be two silent auction houses for this festival and the 10minute rule will apply to all auctions in the houses.

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Silent Auction House East Wing will end at 10pm EST on Saturday, November 11th

Captn Norrington
:
ICQ- 678566021
Discord- captn_norrington
Stratics- @Captn Norrington

Silent Auction House West Wing will end at 11pm EST on Saturday, November 11th

Sadie
:
ICQ - Sadie_UO
Discord- Sadie7000
Stratics- @Sadie-



We will begin to accept item submissions Friday, October 27th


All items must be placed in a container and include a book with your preferred method of being contacted (ICQ, Discord, or Stratics Name), reserve price, buy out and any other relevant information. If you do not provide contact information we will have to reject your submission.

To begin we will limit the amount of items to 5 submissions per person. We ask you only submit higher quality items and will be rejecting recent event drops that can commonly be found on Atlantic vendor search. If you have commonly found items we can reserve you space at one of the rares vendor houses or safe houses.

Starting Sunday, November 5th we will take first come first serve submissions based on remaining availability of spots so at this point if you have already submitted 5 items you may request to submit more based on availability.

You can contact either Sadie or Captn Norrington for submissions or drop them off in the mailbox outside either silent auction house.

Sellers please be a bit generous with your reserves, this is meant to be an auction and if you set your reserve as what the item is flat out worth it’s not going to be a fun experience. If you are worried about not making top dollar on your items please reserve a safe space at one of the safe houses. Thank you, lets all make this a fun experience.



Rules:

(1) The 10 minute rule will be used for all items. The 10 minute rule means that a bid placed within 10 minutes of the auction ending, will extend the auction time on that particular item by 10 minutes. For example if the auction ends at 9:00 PM, but someone places a bid at 8:59 PM, the auction is then extended until 9:09 PM. The 10 minute rule will continue until one bidder has the highest bid for 10 full minutes.



(2) Bids placed on the exact second the auction ends will NOT be considered valid. This means that if the auction ends at 9:00 PM a bid placed at 8:59 PM and 59 seconds is valid, but a bid placed at exactly 9:00 PM will NOT be considered valid.



(3) The term "Reserve" means the minimum amount an item can sell for. If the reserve on an item is 200 million, then 200 million is the lowest bid that can successfully win the item. Any bids lower than the reserve will not win the item.



(4) The term "Buyout" means the price the item can be purchased for immediately, essentially bypassing the auction entirely. If the buyout on an item is 800 million and someone bids 800 million, they instantly win the item and can collect the item from the auctioneer. A buyout cannot be outbid, if someone has already bid the buyout, they will still win even if someone offers double that amount afterwards.



(5) Fake bidding is not permitted. Anyone caught impersonating someone else will be banned immediately, and any bids placed by the impersonator will be deleted without notice. You must include your prominent stratics name/ ICQ number in your bids so you can be identified.



Captn Norrington and I are the auctioneers. In most cases, we are not the item owners. We reserve the right to bid on any items that we did not ourselves submit for auction.



Bidding:

The minimum bid on any lot is 1m. Any winning bids under this amount will be rounded up to 1m.



Offers:

Any bid below reserve will be conveyed to the seller. The seller may choose to accept or reject the offer. If the offer is rejected, you will not be contacted. If the offer is accepted, we will contact you.



Proxies:

You may choose to have someone bid on your behalf if you are unable to attend or something comes up, but you must notify either myself or captn norrington that this person will be allowed to make bids on your behalf. If you do not notify us their bids will be rejected and could result in them being banned from the auction houses.



Buyouts and pickups:

For a buyout or to claim your winning items after the auction ends contact

Captn Norrington for the East Wing Silent Auction House

Sadie for the West Wing Silent Auction House



Buyers will be contacted after all auctions have ended.



Payments:

Unless specified otherwise on the bulletin board payments will only be accepted on Asuka or Atlantic.
 
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Lieutenant Dan!

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Hello Sadie let me just say what fantastic job you're doing with all of this.

I just had one question. Is a 10 minute rule really needed on a silent auction?
In true silent auction fashion, everyone will be bidding blind (not know what anyone else has bid).
So the person that placed a bid at the very beginning will have the same chance at winning as a person who bids at the last second.
 

blend

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Hello Sadie let me just say what fantastic job you're doing with all of this.

I just had one question. Is a 10 minute rule really needed on a silent auction?
In true silent auction fashion, everyone will be bidding blind (not know what anyone else has bid).
So the person that placed a bid at the very beginning will have the same chance at winning as a person who bids at the last second.
This doesn't have to be an real silent auction format. It's so called because most bidders hide their interest in an item until 10 minutes before bidding ends.
Like most auctions on this forum, we set 10-minute extension rule as the most effective countermeasure against snipers.
 

Jason-

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It has been a long time since I participated in one of these, but I recall them being done on a bulletin board. So they were silent in the sense that you aren't saying your bid but rather typing it. Basically the exact same thing as an auction on the forums just done in game.
 

Sadie-

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Results:
Items Submitted: 122No Sales: 34Buyouts: 1Total Gold Made: 92p 913m

Offers:
800m - Earth Fire Water And Air Crystal Set

PAID:
950m - Obsidian Warrior
500m - Hollow Branch
4000 - Facial Hair Growth And Sculpting Cream
450m - Devil's Contract
810m - Stuffy Harlequin Lion
350m - Beehive From Vesper
2000 - Blood Soaked Chains Of the Cursed Of Khaldun
1250m - The Diary Of A Mad Troll
2800m - Yew - Past And Present
9000m - 1922 Hue 11 Piece Armor Set
1700m - Bloodied Bedroll
1000m - 7 Piece Blood Pentagram Set
130m - Flaming Snowflake
3000m - I Am The Winner Of The Scavenger Hunt 2010 In Formosa
1500m - Advanced Workings Of Moongates
1850m - The Wheel Is Constantly Spinning As It Creates The Owners Thread Of Life
525m - Power Crystal
455m - Chinese Formosa Ghost Festival Banner Fu
1700m - Icy Egg
1200m - Epic Flail
1200m - Captain Stephen's Navigation Map
2000m - Spirits Of Asuka
950m - Torukk's Handwritten Notebook On Triluminary
1900m - Light Of The Crossroads
1000m - Champion Of Britannia
100m - A Damaged Poison Sac
2000m - Acolyte Of Relvinian
450m - A Crystal Taken From A Spiders Lair
300m - A Chest Of Treasure Stolen From The Britain Mint During A Daring Heist
100m - An Ancient Crown Worn By Pharoah Akhran
300m - Cranky & Chubby Cats Doll
1000m - Make Our Hearts One
2000m - I Did Not Roll Craps Against Mesanna Playing Roulette On Lake Austin, 2013
456m - Model House
450m - A Britannian Royal Dollhouse
100m - A Decanter Of Cold Chocolate Milk
350m - An Ultimate Scroll Of Power [-255 Maximum Stats]
3100m - Blood Pact
450m - Royal Mint Money Tree (Warning: May Contain Gnomes)
500m - I Kiss Your Hand, My Girl
100m - Core Of Sundered Earth
275m - I Stole This Lantern!
201m - Zombie Palm Reader
750m - A Container Holding The Evil Essence Of Valerie Vondont
4200m - A Lantern Lit By The Flame Of Hope
300m - Vestige Of Sealing Spell Conjured Up By Uzeraan The Conjurer
650m - A Vessel Containing An Ember Of Wildfire
250m - Gift Box (Hue 1)
500m - A Terrible Mage Transformed By His Own Spell Into An Evil Cannibal Piggy
400m - Mystical Cloak Of The Hermit Nicolaus Santee
260m - A Metal Chest Bearing The Fellowship Insignia
120m - An Old Necromancer's Robe, The Hood Is Ripped Off And The Runic Embroidering Is Cut Short
200m - Embroidered Silk Cloak Bearing The Crest Of Andromeda The Dragon Matriarch
1900m - With The Biggest Love For All Britannia
150m - Wood Curls
250m - A Horde Minion Scarecrow
1800m - Loom Bench
2000m - A Faction Platemail Gloves Of Exceptional Quality
300m - Hungry Ghost Skull Candle Set (2)
950m - A Faction Plate Helm
1000m - A Faction Sandals
1000m - Queen Dawns Suit
400m - Glowing Heraldry Of Shamino Salle Dacil
700m - Rubble - Banister
265m - An Oak Tree Rescued From The Forest Of Vesper
610m - A Desecrated Portrait Of Uedriux
750m - A Hope Chest Brought By The Lady Of The Manor
750m - A Snowy Scene Crystal Dream Set (3)
260m - Waves Contaminated By Solaria's Secret Poisons
285m - Anju Sermani - A Magical Spell From Old Sosaria Used To Restore A Destroyed Body
235m - Axonal Diagram Of The Xorinite Dimension
450m - Blessed Water From The Hands Of Grizelda The Witch
1700m - Formosa Fishing Event 3rd
1700m - Formosa Fishing Event 2nd
750m - Scale Of The Dreaded Ice Dragon Called Winterbloom
700m - A Very Old And Well-Used Guillotine
300m - Mongbat Village Protective Totem
951m - Lord Sea Serpent Dragon Statue
560m - Formosa Winter Reindeer
2000m - 8yards Necro Blue Cloth
700m - I Stole This Lantern!
300m - A Chest Of Treasure Stolen From The Britain Mint During A Daring Heist
100m - Trammel Moon
400m - A Mushroom Tainted By The Unpredictable Magics Of Relvinian The Mage
500m - A Tapestry Commissioned By The King As Reward For The Capture Of The Imposter
525m - A Beautiful, Bright Painting Which Emanates Tranquility And Peace

Buyouts:
500m - 5 Pieces Europa Dyed Masks

No Sale:
A Blood Soaked Axe Designed To Decapitate Heads
Vasco Devoh's Lantern
A Disguised Daemon Trophy, Infected By Wildfire
WOE UPON THEM THAT OWNS THE LAUGHING MONGBAT, FOR THEY SHALL KNOW ONLY MADNESS
A Ghostly Item
The Haunted Bed That Rocked The Boy To Sleep
Life's Ruination
Festival of the grape
Demonic Piglet
A Vessel Filled With A Part Of Tuan's Soul
Beastmaster's Whip
An Effigy Of The Gluttonous Harvest God Bathed In Sacrificial Blood
The Heart Of The Lich, Though Beyond Repair The Phylactery Still Pulses With Dark Powers
A Powerful Beacon Used By The VonDont Family To Generate Evil
Magical Talking Blackboard
Contained Energy Of The Dark Stranger Lost In Time
Dark Blue Wave
Talon Of The Sleeping Dragon
Bane Chosen Message Container
Bone Wyrm Bones
Bones From A Failed Experiment
Deep-Fried Dinoturkey
Bloodied Axe Recently Used In A Gruesome Murder
An Ancient Cure
A Wriggling Tree Of Strife Sapling
Owain Surreys Dreamcatcher - A Memory Of The Soothsayer's Demise
Wash Basin
A Fountain Of Blood From Lake Superior Players
Bartholomew's Discarded Scalpel
The Waters Of Lost Balema (5 pieces)
Element Runes Set (4)
Statue Of The Demon Lord - You Feel Forced To Your Knees
Stone Arch
Dark Seeker Boots
 
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