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Clotho
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Reverse auction for a familiar - Cobalt, Sunday, February 27, 2011

Reverse PoE auction for a familiar
Date: Sunday, February 27
Time 12:45 PM game time
Location: Sun's Estate on Kirin

Available familiars can be seen on these pages: Parrot , Monkey , Octopus . Excluded colors: solid white, solid black, and limited edition colors (such as Atlantean, Indigo, ice blue, wine, sea green, etc)

Generalities:

Doors will open 15-30 minutes beforehand, and there will be game tables to ease the wait.
I will not invite people individually, so please do not send tells asking for an invitation - the house will be open for anyone to enter while I'm there and there will also be a whisk on the event tab in the notice board.
This is to be a clean event, anyone engaging in activities which are deemed by the OM host to be unsportsmanlike or rude will earn you a plank or more!
At 1 PM, doors will close for the start of the auction and the whisk will be gone, so don't be late, and don't leave by mistake!
From this point, all non-essential talk should stop, for I will plank those who interrupt or chat while I'm trying to run the auction.
I will run through the auction rules very briefly at the start, but not in full - I expect people to have read the rules in this thread!
If you do not intend to bid, you are still welcome to stay, but please respect the rules of the auction and stay silent once it has started.
During the auction itself, nobody except myself and a buyer should say anything at all - no commentary, chat or reaction.

For those expecting to bid:

Set your chat to "House".
Have your PoE with you.
This is a reverse auction, with the winner required to pay immediately in PoE.
I will announce offers to sell at gradually decreasing PoE amounts, leaving a short gap between each amount. The decrease between each "offer" will not necessarily be equal.
If a pirate sees an offer that they are willing to pay, they should say "Stop" in house chat.
If multiple people say "Stop", the familiar goes to the buyer who spoke first.
The buyer then /tells me the type and color(s) of the familiar they want, and the trade happens immediately. (Right after I use Apollo's stolen familiar-making machine!)
The end.

Additional notes:

Do not say "Stop" unless you genuinely intend to purchase a familiar at that price, and have the required PoE on your person.
If a trade does not happen for any reason, even if multiple people said "stop", the sell offer will be increased from where it stopped, and the auction resumed.
Anyone stopping the auction without the intention or ability of paying risks having disciplinary action taken against them.
There is an absolute minimum of 500k. If the price drops to that without a sale, no familiar will be sold.

The rules sound strict, but without them, it would be chaotic. This should be a quick and fun auction format, but relies on reasonable behavior from all people attending!

If there are any questions or comments, please post them here.

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Clotho
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Re: Reverse auction for a familiar - Cobalt, Sunday, February 27, 2011

Thank you for participating, I had a great time and hope y'all did too!
A familiar was sold for 1,799,000 PoE, not disclosing identity of the winner and familiar type, leaving that up to the pirate!
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