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2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:37 pm
by bambooweb
The ABS On-line auction will be starting October 16th and we are looking for donations. If you have any plants to donate please PM me. The auctions will actually be starting as soon as I get the plants listed which could be this weekend.

Bill Hollenback

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:41 pm
by bambooweb
I have started 29 auction items. More should come this weekend.
Bill

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:26 pm
by bambooweb
I am still adding items to the auction site. I still have 18 late plant entries and 6 bamboo music CDs to add today. There have not been very many bids so I am adding the new items at very low prices.

Bill

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:15 pm
by millerlightman02
does it say which plants will be at the live auction ? i can not seem to find that on the plant profile?

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:08 am
by bambooweb
millerlightman02 wrote:does it say which plants will be at the live auction ? i can not seem to find that on the plant profile?
It is in the shipping information.

I just added another 4 plants.

Bill

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:23 pm
by fredgpops
Any eta when the final auction results will be posted? Also, how did the meeting (s) go? Rgds

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:56 pm
by bambooweb
Most of the plants were won by one person at the live auction but the on-line bidders that won are.

Fargesia sp .‘Tabishan 2 ’ 1 gal oregonbamboo
Fargesia Jiuzhaigou 4 dking
Fargesia 'Rufa' needmore
"Chinese Walking Stick" Holmesbamboo
Ph. nigra 'Hale' #2 bambusatopia

I will give more results later with prices.
To bad more of you could not make it to the conference. We had a great time and I will post more here when I catch up.

Thanks to all of the donors and bidders.
Bill

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:16 pm
by ghmerrill
bambooweb wrote:Most of the plants were won by one person at the live auction
And thats what makes the abs auction just so darn exciting! :lol:

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:36 pm
by fredgpops
Gene - on line bidding was pretty low despite low min bids. I had 10 plants listed at bargain basement min bids - 6 min bids were made, 4 no bid. What's your take on low activity level ( not just my plants)?
It would appear to me even if some plants were on-line bidding only,
bidding would be low and sales dollars would be peanuts. rgds

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:45 pm
by needmore
Fred, my theory is that the donated plants had a very limited climactic appropriate region - very few would I bother to kill here.

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:32 am
by fredgpops
Frankly, not sure I understand the dynamics. It seems like the same folks donate regardless of zone. Nurseries in various zones don't seem interested outside Pacific zones. Seems ABS would get max benefit if auctions were by region. Again, I may be missing the mission. Rgds

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:07 am
by millerlightman02
well i bid on all cold weather plants and seem to have been out bid on all.i was glad to see more cold hardy boos this time

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:27 am
by needmore
I thought that there were some interesting plants donated this time but coming from the PNW/CA, they were mostly suited for the PNW/CA. There aren't a whole lot of rare or interesting cold/heat hardy plants that could be donated really. One of these days I hope to be able to donate some of my import plants that are hardier but thus far I only recently divided the first one of those so that will take some time yet.

The majority of the ABS board has west coast connections and the few nurseries east of the Rockies seem pretty disengaged with the ABS for whatever reason. The Turtles at Our Bamboo Nursery are very active and donate plants to the live auction but they also do not ship plants.

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:39 pm
by mantis
This is the first time since joining Bambooweb that I didn't bid on any of the plants. A few months ago I adopted out all of the runners I had collected, so I wasn't going to bid on any more. The only subtropical clumpers that were in the on-line auction were B. multiplexes, which I really don't need.

This fall was a bad time for me to donate, since most of my plants were damaged by last years hard freezes, not to mention that since I'm not a seller I mostly have only one of each plant. Maybe if we have a mild winter I'll work on getting some plants ready for next years auction. Heck, I'll probably actually be at next years auction, since it is only a few hours from my house. 8)

Re: 2010 ABS Auction

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:54 pm
by fredgpops
I don't think the mix of donators has changed much ref most are from the Pnw. Ditto mix of species. Regardless, seems to me the interest in on-line bidding was down from normal. Could be the economy. Could be th feeling that on line bidding is a waste of time if those at the live auction normally win. Good to get the perspective of site members to understand the drop off. rgds