Had a few esquires on this, it's stickied at the top of each Auction page but figured I'd post it over here as well. Please help keep it on page one for a bit.
Thanks!

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First off I want to thank everybody for contributing, bidding, or helping in any way with the Auction. St Jude Children's Research Hospital is a great cause and I'm honored to do my small part in helping them find cures for childhood disease. I'd also like to thank Trad Gang for allowing and supporting this charitable auction.

ALL Bid forums will open SUNDAY May 19th at 6 PM Eastern.

CLOSE DATES Bid Forums 1 - 4:

Forum 1 - June 1st - close at 10 PM Eastern
Forum 2 - June 2nd - close at 10 PM Eastern
Forum 3 - June 3rd - close at 10 PM Eastern
Forum 4 - June 4th - close at 10 PM Eastern

The 10:00 PM closing means that your bid must be time stamped 9:59 to count. If there is a tie bid during the last minute, the 1st one to bid the tie amount will be the winner.

Mark your calendars!!!!!!

The last bid before the 10:00 PM deadline each night will determine the winner. We've had a few complaints about sniping and such but I guess if it will bother you to get out-bid at the last second you had better bid high enough to make it painful for the sniper. Everything possible is being done to avoid a system crash again but I'd suggest bidding early cause there aint no guarantees.


Alright here we go...

Donors
List your donations on the "Listing Forum", follow the instructions at the top. Don't forget to state if you are covering shipping to the winner or not.

Please keep an eye on your listing(s) during the auction so you can answer questions if needed.

After the Auction you will need to communicate with the winner and make arrangements for getting the item to the winner after payment is made.

Please, no 3rd party listings.

Bidders

If your interested in an item just post your bids like you were posting on a thread in Pow-Wow or anywhere else.

I'm going to ask you to please stick to these minimum bid increments again this year. While it might be fun to bid in very small increments but it is a real nightmare at the end of the auction. Thanks
Items up to $10 -- .50
Items $10 - $100 -- $1
Items over $100 -- $5

After the Auction

OK guys and gals here's what is gonna happen. At the deadline we will lock down all the threads then we'll go thru and list the winners with totals. Please be patient.

You will need to pay via paypal, check or M/O, written to St Jude Children's Research Hospital As we receive payments we'll post on the thread, "payment received" and that it's OK to ship items. The winner and donor will need to be in contact with each other to make sure everything happens the way it's supposed to. You can click on each other's handle and either email or PM from the Profile screen.

Paying for your treasures -

Please note If payment is not received within a couple weeks, unless ya got a pretty good excuse the next highest bidder will have the option of paying for the item. I don't want to hurt the Kid's total $ but stringing the payments out over a month or two really disrupts things.

There's a couple ways to settle up after the auction and I'd really appreciate being done within a couple weeks. Please include you real name, TG handle, LINK TO THREAD(S)and all Auction info with correspondence.

You can pay with check or M/O written to St Jude Children's Research Hospital, (please do not write them to me or Trad Gang) and mailed to

Walt Francis
2917 Rose Street
Bozeman, MT 59718


Or you can pay via Paypal.com Click on the link and log in or register then click on "Send Money" enter PayPal@stjude.org in the "pay to" space, be sure to reference "Trad Gang St Jude Auction" then just follow the instructions. When making you payment you can choose goods,services under purchase and under personal if you select gift you don't have to pay the 3%.

Please give us all the info from your particular auction, reference Trad Gang ST Jude Auction, item, donor, both your name and TG handle . With a few hundred items it gets real confusing for this ol country boy.

Have fun, Bid high, Bid often!!

Thanks from the Kids!

Thank you, sir!

Need to keep this at the top!

FOR THE KIDS!

Shoot straight, Shinken

 

ttt

This should be required reading for every Trad Gang member.
The most fun you can possibly have while raising money for a good cause!

Hey Whip, my Bunny Hunt for the kids is right up there!! TTT for a great event! Shawn

   

Not trying to be a PITA, but are we using standard time or daylight savings time.  I got bit on this last year and was put down for bringing up the question afterwards. Not everyone in the country goes on DST.  If that is how we are going to time the auction, the guidelines should be stated that way.

thank you.
got it.

Rick,

First time we have heard daylight savings time was an issue for anybody; I would go by whatever time it is in New Jersey and Georgia.  Here in Montana, we just plan on it closing at 8:00, which is 10:00 on the east coast.  It might be a misnomer, but I believe eastern standard time recognizes the time change when daylight savings time kicks in.  At least, that is the way it is stated on the television our here.

It happened last year, Walt.  I planned some bids last year based on standard time because that's what the "rules" said and missed the boat.  no big loss for me, but it did cost the auction a few bucks.  When I asked about it, I was basically told I should have known better, plus some other not so nice things.  

It makes perfect sense to me to use DST, but I'm not the one making the rules and setting the program, I just try to play by the rules as written.  Standard time and DST both have specific definitions and they are not the same.  If we are going to use DST, the rules should say that; if the rules say Standard Time, then that is what we should use.

TTT FOR THE KIDS (Keep it fun - limited nit-pickin' -  'cept in jest    

TTT

Thanks!