We're Having An Auction!

[fischfan13]

EastCoastCichlids is proud to announce its very first auction!!!
Saturday, April 4th 2009
Knights of Columbus
67 Hathaway St, Wallington, NJ‎ 07057

[gregga]

I just knew it........leaving april 3rd for disney world.....I told my wife this would be the weekend

[Artie]

I just knew it........leaving april 3rd for disney world.....I told my wife this would be the weekend

Tell her to go & you'll meet her on the 5th !!!!!!!!!!!!::) Have a good time.

[AMBUSHPREDATOR]

I saw that coming a mile away ! Sadly it's a reasonably central location considering all the PA peeps. Did Bill mention the $20 cover charge / donation fee to attend ? Only joking don't blow a vein :neener:

[Richard B]

I'm there!

[eggzackary]

Time to start collecting fry!!

[Heyguy74]

Sounds great. If any help is needed, I am willing to help. Let me know.

[mack74]

Sweet I look foward to it!

[fischfan13]

Just a reminder...

04-04-09

[greyd]

04-04-09 is the day before 'another year without playoffs' starts for the mets!!:neener:

[AlishanAS]

And it will be the beginning of the fourth season in which a Philly team will not win a championship. Can they break the recent record of 100?:crying:
Vegas sets the under/over at 200!!!

[AMBUSHPREDATOR]

I'd put the bank on way under. But I might be to dead to collect?

[fischfan13]

Just a friendly "bump".:alarm:

[fischfan13]

Another bit of news for ECC's Spring '09 auction...

I just received confirmation from Nancy and Steve that SCCichlids will be joining our event as one of the vendors.
This along with Bill from YourFishStuff gives us two great vendors not only for the auction but for the fish hobby as well!

[fischfan13]

Also, I am working on food for our auction.
As I get more details I will pass it along to all members.


Saturday, April 4th 2009
Knights of Columbus
67 Hathaway St, Wallington, NJ‎ 07057

[foamerdave]

Also, I am working on food for our auction.
As I get more details I will pass it along to all members



A where ever that other web site (:grhair:)got there pizza from was good

[fischfan13]

OK, it is now official...
We will have food cooked for us at the auction.

This is what I would like...
Ideas for what YOU would like as food for the auction.

Thank You.

[Afreakin]

Am I driving to this thing Artie? I'm NOT staying till the following night though!:) Should be a good time. Are we going to be able to set up any prior side deals?:colrface:
:bandit:

Food:

clams casino
octopus salad
GARLIC BREAD
beer
Crab cakes

[fischfan13]

Should be a good time. Are we going to be able to set up any prior side deals?:colrface:
:bandit:

Food:

beer
Crab cakes

OK, crab cakes...
When we have a road trip to Maryland we will have crab cakes...you up for that?

Side deals?
Soon I will have ECC's auction rules posted (soon means a few days:ill-violated-dead-s)
One of the rules will be about side deals.
This is what we ask:
All side deals are acceptable, but please do not show up at the auction with the intent of bringing something that you do not have a buyer for and that you are not putting up for auction
Case in point:
A few years back at an auction that I was working someone brought bags of fish food. His intent was to sell it at the hall before the auction. He never had a buyer for any of the bags, but he approached everyone asking them if they were interested in his fish food. Those are the side deals we are against.

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

So if anybody wants flake food I will be selling it out of my truck! :partay:




Just Kidding BILL!

[foamerdave]

What kind of food are we talking, Make at the auction or per made and reheated there?
Hot dogs and burgers work for on the spot. Pre made meat balls and sausage maybe some baked zitty (sp?) or the such. Roast beef (hot) could be nice but can be a mess.
Is this more along the lines of what you are looking for?

[foamerdave]

O heres a question. Whats the split going to be?

[fischfan13]

Dave, I am looking to get ideas about food...just name what you would be interested in.

As for the split, it is not in stone but it will be in the auction rules that should be out in a few days.

[fischfan13]

A friendly reminder about 04-04.

The rules will be finalized this weekend...if not earlier.

[fishboy]

buffalo wings..........yummy:a-okhand:

[LuvMiCichlids]

Dont think my car will make it... Maybe it will.
It's 3 an 1/2 hours away at 187 miles from me. Lets see if i have the day off and if i can use or rent a car. I do have some fry but not sure of there name..

Please lets all pray I can go!! LOL....

[joe_jaskot]

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs on a hard roll, Taylor Ham and Eggs on a hard roll, coffee.

Lunch: Pastrami or Corned Beef on rye, barrel pickle, french fries and chili. Or maybe an Italian Hot Dog (sausage). Or maybe a few rippers from Rutt's Hut.

[fischfan13]

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs on a hard roll, Taylor Ham and Eggs on a hard roll, coffee.

Lunch: Pastrami or Corned Beef on rye, barrel pickle, french fries and chili. Or maybe an Italian Hot Dog (sausage). Or maybe a few rippers from Rutt's Hut.

Taylor Ham...
You can tell when someone is from Northern Jersey, that is what we always called it.
The Hall is more than happy to cook for us, all I had to do was ask. As it gets closer to April 4th (04-04) we will all get a better idea on what to ask for.

[Afreakin]

Instead of the hall cookin' for us we should of asked Artie :colrface::bandit::colrface:

[fischfan13]

The auction needs Artie and his sexy legs to help out as a runner, and to help out with the raffles and to help out with setting up and to help out...

[AlishanAS]

Instead of the hall cookin' for us we should of asked Artie :colrface::bandit::colrface:

With Artie's recent run, a breaker would trip, a cooker would shut down and he would be serve us undercooked chicken which would proceed to kill us all!

[mk_ultra]

I am moving this weekend and will be working on my tanks through February. Looking forward to the auction once life cuts me a break.
I have not gone to a club meeting or fish related events. As Ed and Tom can testify, I went from a fish room to a 10g and 5g. I have a 2.5 at my office but I am almost never there. I am missing the hobby...

Good luck guys!

[fischfan13]

Dave, I am sure when you are ready to dive back into the hobby we will be able to help you stock your tanks.
Lets see...
Tangs and West Africans, right?

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

Dave I still have most of your fish you can have back when you are ready! No charge for them either!

[AlishanAS]

I am moving this weekend and will be working on my tanks through February. Looking forward to the auction once life cuts me a break.
I have not gone to a club meeting or fish related events. As Ed and Tom can testify, I went from a fish room to a 10g and 5g. I have a 2.5 at my office but I am almost never there. I am missing the hobby...

Good luck guys!

Good luck with the move Dave. If you can, check out the NJAS O'Malley benefit auction during the February meeting. Fish from Tony Orso, George Fear and others. I would think there will be some nice dwarf W. African and SA cichlids there.

[fischfan13]

Just a reminder.
Look at our Auction Section. There are several threads that can answer your questions. These same threads have posts that ask you the questions.
Raffles?
Food?
Name it.
Join in the Auction Talk.

[fischfan13]

Just to keep everyone informed...

The Auction Rules are posted in the "AUCTION!" section as a "Sticky".
http://forums.eastcoastcichlids.org/showthread.php?t=554

[fischfan13]

Any auction questions?
6 1/2 weeks away...

[phillyofish]

will categories be distributed....so fish and drygoods together or at different times?

[fischfan13]

Donations and pre-registered items will be auctioned off first.

[gregga]

yeah...can you change the date?

[fischfan13]

Greg, you have to talk to your wife and her decision to book a Disney trip during April!
I think that you should look into changing the dates of your vacation by a few days...I hear that Mickey is very flexible!

[gregga]

hmmmm....let's see

unbook the hotel
change the flight
cancel the rent-a-car
call my family and say we cant make it
call my in laws and cancel dinner plans
see how much deposit money I can get back

I'm screwed

[AlishanAS]

Take a later flight that day out of Newark.
Have one of the LI cronies tank your fish for a week.
Problem solved. :a-okhand:

Next question....

[fischfan13]

Looks like I will ask the K of C to cook eggs in the morning and sausage and peppers and burgers and dogs in the afternoon?

Lets hear it...

[joe_jaskot]

Cluck, cluck, oink, oink, moo, moo, woof, woof. LOL!

[fischfan13]

Thanks for yet another informative post, Joe.

So I guess everyone is ok with the food selection?

[Haplee]

Sounds good to me!!

[AlishanAS]

How about eggs benedict and western omelettes in the AM, palate cleanser, followed by porterhouse for two, vodka rigatoni, duck a l'orange and seared ahi?

[phillyofish]

Tom, I was thinking the same thing. with a nice bottle of vino of course.

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

I Like Tom's order! Double it! :clapclap:

[emartin]

Thanks for yet another informative post, Joe.

So I guess everyone is ok with the food selection?
Out of curiosity what brand dogs? Just wondering.

Also what beverages are you guys offering if any?

[fischfan13]

Cooked Hot Dogs and Cold Beverages...is there any other way?

[eggzackary]

Looks like I will ask the K of C to cook eggs in the morning and sausage and peppers and burgers and dogs in the afternoon?

Lets hear it...

Sounds good to me!:a-okhand:

[fischfan13]

Pre-reg forms will be posted this week!

[fischfan13]

An update:

Looks like we have half of the menu taken care of. Since registration will be from 9-11am and the auction will start at Noon I wanted to make sure that everyone who arrives early will have the chance to fill their bellies. You will be able to purchase breakfast from the people who will be cooking for the Knights of Columbus. Breakfast will include omelettes and pancakes. There will be lunch served from Noon until 3pm, and once I am sure what the K of C will be cooking I will be posting it right here.


Back in December when I made the arrangements with the K of C for the auction I was asked if I wanted upstairs or downstairs. I chose downstairs because back in December we were a website of about 100 people and I figured that maybe 50 people would show to our auction. I did not want to bother my contact from the K of C because he had just been thru open heart surgery and his health is more important than a websites auction. Last night when I spoke with my contact he told me that he had filled the upstairs and that we were locked into the downstairs. As most of you know Tom, Ed and I, along with mk_ultra, successfully ran auctions for another website. One of these auctions was in the ground floor level of the K of C and afterwards when our auctions grew tremendously we moved them up to the upstairs section. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that this website would grow this massively so quickly, and if I had known this three months ago I would have locked in upstairs.


What is good about everything is that the kitchen is connected to the downstairs hall. The party that is upstairs is not starting until 8pm, so this will not affect our parking. It's going to be cozy, to say the least. We will have two vendors, tanks set up with rare fish and plecos and a brand new set up...all for raffles. We are expecting donations from all of our sponsors, PLUS donations from those who are not sponsors. Tom, Ed and I will be getting there extra early that morning to maximize our space...as a matter of fact I will probably be making a trip there before the auction date.
From what I have heard thru the grapevine our selection of fish will be excellent. All lakes plus SA and CA will be represented with livestock. The food will be excellent and the vendors will come fully stocked. There will be fry and juveniles from some award winning fish from various competitions.


It's time to look forward.
EastCoastCichlids will be Ready To Rock once Noon Time hits on 04/04!

[joe_jaskot]

an update:

Looks like we have half of the menu taken care of. Since registration will be from 9-11am and the auction will start at noon i wanted to make sure that everyone who arrives early will have the chance to fill their bellies. You will be able to purchase breakfast from the people who will be cooking for the knights of columbus. Breakfast will include omelettes and pancakes. There will be lunch served from noon until 3pm, and once i am sure what the k of c will be cooking i will be posting it right here.


Back in december when i made the arrangements with the k of c for the auction i was asked if i wanted upstairs or downstairs. I chose downstairs because back in december we were a website of about 100 people and i figured that maybe 50 people would show to our auction. I did not want to bother my contact from the k of c because he had just been thru open heart surgery and his health is more important than a websites auction. Last night when i spoke with my contact he told me that he had filled the upstairs and that we were locked into the downstairs. As most of you know tom, ed and i, along with mk_ultra, successfully ran auctions for another website. One of these auctions was in the ground floor level of the k of c and afterwards when our auctions grew tremendously we moved them up to the upstairs section. Never in my wildest dreams did i think that this website would grow this massively so quickly, and if i had known this three months ago i would have locked in upstairs.


What is good about everything is that the kitchen is connected to the downstairs hall. The party that is upstairs is not starting until 8pm, so this will not affect our parking. It's going to be cozy, to say the least. We will have two vendors, tanks set up with rare fish and plecos and a brand new set up...all for raffles. We are expecting donations from all of our sponsors, plus donations from those who are not sponsors. Tom, ed and i will be getting there extra early that morning to maximize our space...as a matter of fact i will probably be making a trip there before the auction date.
From what i have heard thru the grapevine our selection of fish will be excellent. All lakes plus sa and ca will be represented with livestock. The food will be excellent and the vendors will come fully stocked. There will be fry and juveniles from some award winning fish from various competitions.


It's time to look forward.
Eastcoastcichlids will be ready to rock once noon time hits on 04/04!build it and they will come

[AlishanAS]

An update:
Tom, Ed and I will be getting there extra early that morning to maximize our space...as a matter of fact I will probably be making a trip there before the auction date.

It's time to look forward.
EastCoastCichlids will be Ready To Rock once Noon Time hits on 04/04!

How early Bill? Will I be berated like I was at a certain site's last auction because I did not get there at a mythical "on time"? LOL

[Julie]

You'll get berated no matter what, Tom!! :pointlaugh:How early Bill? Will I be berated like I was at a certain site's last auction because I did not get there at a mythical "on time"? LOL

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

Julie what time Friday night can I pick up the auction fish on the 3rd? I don't get home from work until 5:45pm.

[Julie]

Emailed!!

[mk_ultra]

so, rumor has it there is an auction coming up?

[AlishanAS]

Yes Dave. Rumor has it a nice 4-5" Synodontis atterimus might find it's way there.....:)

[mk_ultra]

rumor has it my electrician will finish my basement this weekend. :colrface:

[fischfan13]

Just a reminder...
Pre-Registration for the auction is NOW Open.
If you would like to pre-reg and take advantage of a 70/30 split (go find that elsewhere!) then please do it before April 3rd.
On my signature you can click onto any of the links needed for the auction.
Once you have the form filled out you can email it to:
eastcoastcichlids@gmail.com