Vic club auction

[mcl1959]

The Victorian club annual auction is coming up on the 26th of June.
If forum members wish to sell stuff at our auction, we are accepting items now.
Initial list will appear next month
Items must fall into the following categories;

New Old Stock
Accessories
Memorabilia

Contact me for more details

Regards  Ken

[TorqueFC]

hay ken
will drop in today if thats ok and will give you the list

would prefer to drop the list in as we need to check some things on that motor in the fc and grab them heater fittings
thankz
torque

[mcl1959]

With much regret, we have had to cancel this long running event due to lack of interest from sellers.
It seems that ebay has finally killed the auction!

with this months newsletter going to print now and only 40 items submitted (mor than half were mine) there was not enough items to make a viable auction even if a few more items did come in during May.

Ken

[RET]

That's a real shame, Ken.  It seems to me that swap meets are going the same way, and I guess you can't blame the sellers for that.  Given the choice of:

loading up a trailer, carting it across the country-side to be wherever and ready to go sell at dawn, standing around all day watching your stuff and haggling with people, then packing all the unsold stuff up again to take it home,

or

taking a photo of an item in your garage, deciding the minimum you'll accept for it and listing it (for a nation-wide audience) on Ebay whilst sitting in the lounge-room, posting it to the customer at their expense and paying about 5% of the total to Ebay

I know which one I'd choose!

Still, the Vic Club Auction has been for many years the place for FE/FC   rarities, and it's a great shame to hear of its demise.

cheers
RET

PS: RATS! That means I have to find something to replace that page in Sideplate this month...

[Martin]

That is a pity, Ken.  Frustrating.

But why not go with the flow:  put the list up on the For Sale to Club Members board and give us all a chance.  The items could be put up at fixed price or best offer submitted by a certain date/time.

That would give us interstaters a look at some of the goodies you Vics accumulate.

Martin

[graham_fuller]

hi Ken,
It is a shame as I always look forward to your Auction. I have bought some good gear from this day over the last few years.Martins idea is not a bad 1 though.
Cheers,
Graham

[Shayne]

Unfortunately this is the downside of Ebay.  I think less items are advertised in local papers for the same reason.
I would support Martin's idea, but then give me a 'real hands on' auction any day!
Sorry to hear of the Vic club's auction demise.

[mcl1959]

The auction always was open to interstate bidders (although very few on the forum participated - Richard and Graham certainly have)
The only thing that interstate bidders never got to see was a picture, but then does a picture really tell the whole story?

I am personally dissapointed to see it go as it had really become an icon in Melbourne for not only rare FE FC stuff, but rare stuff for every Holden model.

Ken

[gp]

It's very disappointing to hear this. I've been down there for the auction a couple of times, and also bought stuff via proxy. It has always been a great event, with some spirited bidding at times.


Graham

[Sarge]

It's time like this that Progress really SUCKS. May-be Martins idea could just work. Why not give it a try.

Cheers
Sarge

[Jonno]

how much stuff do you need to make it viable Ken? Does it have to be advertised in the newsletter (could it still happen if we all extracted our respective digits)?
Jonno

[RET]

Progress doesn't suck.  And I don't feel listing the stuff in the Club-only area is the right approach either.  This site is not an auction house, and you can't effectively make it act like one, IMHO.

The fact is that there weren't enough lots to make it worthwhile for the Vic Club to hire premises, an auctioneer and all the rest of it.  However, just as Ebay may have rung the bell on this event in its current form it may also be the next logical step.  We all know stuff sells for more on Ebay than elsewhere (ie at swap meets, club meetings or in the trading post etc).  It's not like the event was a closed auction - it was heavily advertised in Melbourne and further afield, and open to the public/other clubs/other states etc.

So why not hold the auction through Ebay?  It seems to me everyone wins - more eyeballs, more bidders, less hassle and less cost.  Advertise whatever items were going to be auctioned through the normal channels, and the date they'll be listed on Ebay.  List whatever you've got, and see what happens.

cheers
RET

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

A sad day indeed, but I think RET has the right idea about an eBay Auction instead.

My "trader rating" post was a little ill timed after what has happened here. We are onto a good thing and in hindsight trader rating and all the other associated guff could cause more harm than good.

[NascoHunter]

To make the Auction viable we need 150 plus items to date we only have 40 item which is well short of the same time last year. It is a sad day indeed after 15 years the auction which has help many collectors and enthusiast like us. Ebay has been chipping away at our auction for the last few years and l have found swap meet going in the same way. That's progress.
   Cheers Tony Galea

[Sarge]

Progress is something that you really don’t wont to happen when you have an event like this. But year after year people have watched this event change. Each year something would be different.
Over a period of time this event would grow and have people eagerly awaiting it the following year. Unknowingly people throughout the year would sell their item on E-Bay why not you can make more money and it’s all done from the comfort of your own home.
As Ret said earlier

“taking a photo of an item in your garage, deciding the minimum you'll accept for it and listing it (for a nation-wide audience) on Ebay whilst sitting in the lounge-room, posting it to the customer at their expense and paying about 5% of the total to Ebay”

We have all done it, and sadly the end result is this event is NO MORE as many others have stated the swap meet will be next.
This is Progress.

RET
The way I express my self and the way I feel about something may not be pleasing to everybody and in some cases even offend (which is not my intension). But IMHO Progress does suck at times, and this is one of them.

[20.4_seconds]

As a newbie I don't attest to knowing anything about how the clubs and auctions are run as yet, but I was wondering if there was a way to almalgamate the club auctions into the National Championships, I mean what better time with a captive audience to try sell something to people who are there for the bigger picture.
If this is about the survival of the clubs with much needed proceeds coming from auctions(I'm thinking that a percentage goes to the clubs?)
Change is good, being able to adapt to that change and succeed is better.

Just my humble thoughts

Nick

[mcl1959]

Talk about stir up a hornets nest, there has been considerable support from a very generous benefactor with a whole load of NOS stuff for FX to HR who has offered 75 odd items for our auction, so we have to advise ----------

IT'S BACK ON !!!!!!!!!!

Richard, we may need to call on your generosity again to help us with posting the auction list.

I hope that all members of the forum will support us in what may end up being our last auction.

Ken

[Sarge]

Ken
     All I can say is YES YOU BEAUTY. This is great news and a great way to start the day. Good luck with it hope it all runs smooth.


Cheers
Sarge

[HAD 708]

Yes the Auction has been resurrected and yes we still need more items. If any one on the forum has some quality items they would like to submit please contact either Ken or myself and we will endeavour to list them and add to our list. We have all read how sad it was that it was being scrapped so please help us to help you and make the Vic Auction a successful day.
Cheers
Brett

[TorqueFC]

SO HOW IS THE SWAP MEET GOING TO RUN ON THE DAY, DO WE JUST TURN UP WITH A TABLE AND STUFF WANTED FOR SELLING OR DO WE HAVE TO PRE BOOK OR...?

CHEERS
TORQUE