Howdy y'all,

I've received several emails regarding this collection and my friend has 
decided to drop the minimum bid on the whole lot.  The minimum bid is $6,300 
and we have a buyer at $6,300.  If you're interested, please bid $6,350 or more.

Best Regards,
Rhett Graves
Madison, AL

--- In [email protected], Rhett Graves <rcandamoonpie@...> wrote:
>
> I'm helping a friend sell his large S gauge collection.  Attached is a list
> of items that he has available for sale.
> 
> About the sale process:  The sale will be conducted as a whole-lot,
> open-book-bid auction from now until July 7th.  As bids come in for the
> whole lot, I will notify the group of the bid amount (not the buyer, just
> the bid amount).  Provided the lot doesn't sell, a piece-by-piece,
> closed-book-bid "silent" auction will follow.  I'm trying to sell this as a
> lot first to expedite the sale.
> 
> About bidding:  Please send me an email with your name as the subject
> line.  List the amount you would like to bid for the whole lot.  The
> minimum bid is $8,300.  This comes to just $48 per item for a lot that is
> mostly S-helper and has locomotives in it (including one SHS Consolidation
> with sound!).  If you would like to bid over this amount, please do so in
> $50 increments.  If I receive bids of equal amounts, the bid received first
> will be registered and I'll notify the subsequent bidders that their bid
> was not high enough.
> 
> About shipping:  The buyer will pay the actual shipping charges for the
> shipping service of the buyer's choice.  Insurance is the buyer's option
> (but I'd think you'd want it).  If no insurance is purchased, then I am not
> responsible for what the shipping service does to your item.  If you do
> purchase insurance, I'll work with you to get payment from the postal
> service.  All items will be packaged well for shipping.
> 
> About the items:  My friend is a high-scaler, meaning that he uses AF
> wheelsets with scale couplers (either Kadee 802 or SHS).  That will be the
> arrangement you'll find on almost all of these cars.  As I've inventoried
> the cars, I've tried to make note of any different arrangements with
> respect to wheelsets and couplers.  For the cars listed as having "Both"
> wheels, I've only inspected a representative sample (20 or so) of the boxes
> to see if the scale wheelsets are still there.  I haven't opened a box
> where all of the pieces are not there, but I'm not guaranteeing there won't
> be some missing scale wheelsets.  I've also marked the stock number and
> road number of each car.  As these cars have been run and some roadnames
> have multiple road numbers, I cannot guarantee that the road number in the
> box goes with the stock number on the box.  I recorded all of the road
> numbers so you can verify that the item you're purchasing is not identical
> to something already in your collection.  All of these cars are in very
> good condition.
> 
> Happy bidding!
> Rhett Graves
> Madison, AL
>




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