Marble Cyberauction #1105 12/9/2012

[BobBlock]

The catalogue for Marble CyberAuction #1105, which will be held on December 9, 2012, is now uploaded and online. You can view it at http://www.icollecto...n.aspx?as=24642

Here's a few tidbits from the auction:

[BobBlock]

Oops, I put the wrong date in the title. Could one of the moderators change the date in the title to 12/9/12? Or delete the topic and I'll start a new one. Thanks.

[mjk]

Nice! I found a couple I want...

[BobBlock]

Thanks mysterious person who changed the topic title for me :-)

[Steph]

[BobBlock]

The auction is this Sunday, so I figured I'd bump this up.

You can get a PDF of the catalogue at http://www.blocksite.com/marble-auctions/block-s-marble-cyberauctions/

The online catalogue, bidder registration and absentee bidding is on iCollector at http://www.icollector.com/auction.aspx?as=24642

The Live Auction will be on iCollector on Sunday night starting at 8PM NYC time. The iCollector auction room is at http://www.icollector.com/bidlive/?as=24642. You can bring up the page that has the auction room on the left side of the screen and the chat room on the right side of the screen at http://www.marblecyberauction.com/index_chat.htm

Thanks.

[ausman]

Recieved mine in the mail today. All very nice! Thanks Bob!

[BobBlock]

Boy those look familiar

Glad that you are pleased with your winnings Gary.

I'd like to announce that all bidders have now paid, except for two. All packages have already gone to the Post Office, so anyone who hasn't received theirs yet, will get them in the next day or two. Consignor checks will be mailed on Saturday morning.

I'll be finishing up the cataloguing of the next auction this weekend. I'm going to have to run the next one on iCollector again. My software developer has been MIA since early last week and is not returning phone calls, so he is not going to make the December 20 contract date to get my live site up and running. I'll end up dropping him next week for breach. I'm currently interviewing new developers and we should be back on track shortly.

If you want to see the Ebay-style marble site that I'm opening, go visit www.themarblemart.com. It's pretty much ready to go, I had several people testing it over the past week and we seem to have fixed most of the bugs. I currently have a web guy working on a new skin for it. His exact comment was "the skin you have on there sucks". My response was that I'm an accountant not a web designer. But that doesn't change the operation of the site, just the look and feel. I'll be posting items on there next week, I'm trying to get the December MarbleCollecting.com newsletter done first.

[mjk]

I currently have a web guy working on a new skin for it. His exact comment was "the skin you have on there sucks". My response was that I'm an accountant not a web designer.

Well, I'm glad somebody said it, lol. ; )

It will be great to have an eBay alternative, run by someone who knows and cares about marbles.