jmitch's book auction

“well, publication of my guide, "Hiking the Endless Mountains: Exploring the Wilderness of Northeast PA", is imminent and i received my personal copies from the publisher.

i will auction one away (with signature if desired) pursuant to the following rules:

1. interested parties shall place a bid for the guide. the amount of the bid shall be donated to a trail organization or conservancy of the partys own choosing.

2. when placing the bid, the party shall specify the amount and the name of the trail organization or conservancy he/she intends to donate too.

3. the party placing the bid stands by his/her word that the money specified in the bid will in fact be donated.

4. the party with the highest bid shall receive a copy of the guide, mailing and shipping costs paid by myself.

5. i reserve the right to add more guides open for bidding.

6. bidding will close 1/27/03, unless more guides are added, in which case the second highest and highest subsequent bids shall receive guides.

7. bidding starts at $5.00 US.”

“Twenty five buck,,Cumberland Trail Conference”

“geez chilli, hell of a first bid

poor artex”

“hey, it's for charity,,,,this is not a time to be cheap”

“Auction Smauction.... I already paid for my book. I want one of those copies, dang gumbit!! ;o)”

“pennsy, then get two!!!”

“He just wants the trailguide so he can figure out where not to site his secret corn liquor still.

I bid $25 for the Keystone Trail Association.”

“Since chili decided to use his usual gambit of inserting an invisible clause in his bid (see between the two commas in his post) I’d like to make a $5 bid, Keystone Trail Assoc.
;-)”

“Ya know... my post was supposed to go before LyndyS.”

“Too late, Violin! And if you write a book about trails in Northeast NJ and the Ramapo mountains, then I will bid for your book and donate to the NY-NJ Trail Conf.”

“Well gee, Violin, you had lots of time, 'cause of all the editing to my post that I did.”

“I was planning on making a donation anyway, I’ll just increase it in the spirit of this thread:

$30, The Nature Conservancy”

“Nice Violin, I will up you to $35, CTC.”

“Grrrrrrr! I bid $36 and name the Keystone Trail Assoc.”

“What time on 1/27/03 will bidding close?”

“12 noon, EST”

“I'll bid $5.01!”

“Oops, guess I was a little late... ;-)”

“LOL @ Fritz”

“This will likely be my last bid until 11:59 am, 1/27/03:

$40, The Nature Conservancy”

“I see it now.... expect this site to crash at 11:59:30 AM on 1-27-03 when everybody tries to get that last bid in.”

“$50.00 to the American Hiking Society.”

“$55 to the Appalchian Mountain Club.”

“I think I'll wait until the twenty-sixth, and then the gloves are really coming off. Birch has been wanting to join the AHS anyways. Wonder what a lifetime membership costs? ;)”

“i've decided to add a second guide. the two highest bids will get a guide.”

“wow - you're famous jmitch!”

“Couples lifetime memebership to AHS, $853.00. The book is mine!!!












j/k...no way I'd give them $853.00. Not that I wouldn't like to, but I'd give it to the NCTA before the AHS, NCTA needs the $ worse.”

“just to let you know that your book was shipped today.
cant wait to get it!


:)

Mapleleaf”

“Amazon.com says my book shipped today also. Cool!

I'd still like to take part in the auction. I'd like to donate my bid to the Lakota Wolf Preserve in northwest NJ. Does that organization meet the rules?”

“Likely I'll step inta the fray! Anybody here like the NPCA? Just curious. Bout the Nature Conservancy? Is there a website that compares outdoorsy charities with one another, the bigguns anyhow?”

“pennsy, that organization is fine”

“So the bidding is at $55 right now, correct?”

“And it ends at midnight on the twenty-seventh?”

“no it ends noon EST the 27th”

“Dang, I thought I might have had an advantage there. ;)”