When is the next auction, Mark?  What date, I mean.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Judith, but let's also give Sal her due (if I remember correctly, 
> she is a she, I hope).  So far, the response has been underwhelming, perhaps 
> because I didn't even have it in me to follow your marketing advice and, 
> perhaps too, because I haven't given it enough time, which I don't currently 
> have a lot of, monetarily speaking.  At this point I'm hoping the expert is 
> not being overly optimistic, though I do like and trust what I've so far 
> experienced with him.  I guess we'll find out in November, their next 
> auction...
> 
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:25 AM, authfriend wrote:
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:06 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'm hoping that Ted can put my set of flip-flops 
> > > > up for auction at the same time that he puts up 
> > > > Maharishi's sandals, so that I might get some
> > > > "spillover" traffic from wealthy foot and fraud
> > > > fetishists. Thanks to you and obbajeeba for 
> > > > suggesting the idea. 
> > > 
> > > I wonder whatever happened to the idea of,
> > > if you need $$, getting a job.
> > 
> > Gee, Sal, I bet there's a whole lot of unemployed
> > people in this country who never thought of such
> > a brilliant solution to their financial problems.
> > Just go out and get a job, nothin' to it. You
> > really ought to write a letter to the editor or
> > something.
> > 
> > I think
> > > Mark is living in a dream-world, perhaps
> > > even dangerously so, if he thinks these
> > > decades-old "relics" are going to become
> > > his salvation.
> > 
> > Right. I mean, if they were *new* relics, they 
> > might actually be worth something.
> > 
> > (You have to forgive poor Stupid Sal for her
> > pique; after all, she had predicted Mark would
> > be lucky to get $1,000 for the sandals. Now
> > that she's learned that the guy who runs the
> > very successful memorabilia auction house
> > handling the sale thinks a reserve price of
> > $70,000 or more is appropriate, you just can't
> > blame her for taking her embarrassment out on
> > Mark.)
> > 
> >
>


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