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What's that great line the the Sheryl Crow song? Something like:

"It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got"

I love my O'Riordans, and would be hard pressed to part with them at this point. They are truly unique whistles, and I have yet to hear anything that sounds close to them. From my understanding however, there are makers out there coming close. (David Boisivart?) ((sp?))

At any rate, someone will most likely enjoy these when they go...
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Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.

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I won't tell you whom my wife gave permission to do some bidding. It's a secret, shhhhhhhhh!
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Some WhOA-crazed guy who's just sold a house? :D
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glauber wrote:Some WhOA-crazed guy who's just sold a house? :D
Nope not a WHOA-crazed guy. He has been REALLY good lately and is only on TWO waiting lists. But I think he did just sell a house. :P She did put a cap on the bidding though. :roll: Probably a good thing.
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glauber wrote:
Brian Lee wrote:The fact that pat is no longer taking any orders will very likely have an impact on the final bid price.
Yeah, sure, the fact he's not taking orders and that he won't be around forever, is sad and it probably means that barring something unpredictable, i'll never have one of those whistles. So what? There's a lot of things i'll never have. My life shouldn't be evaluated by the things i have anyway.

I'm watching that auction on eBay, though. I wouldn't buy them, but hopefully someone will, and set a new record for whistle prices. Maybe one day whistles will fetch as much as that famous grilled cheese sandwich, on eBay!
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Was that with tomato? Cause if it was, geez; I can't believe I missed it. No tomato and I don't care. But grilled cheese WITH TOMATO - how could I have missed that... :lol:

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3 days left and up to $1,525 so far.





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Well the reserve still hasn't been met. I can see the point of creeping up on it but there's quite a way to go yet IMO.
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PhilO wrote:Was that with tomato? Cause if it was, geez; I can't believe I missed it. No tomato and I don't care. But grilled cheese WITH TOMATO - how could I have missed that...
No tomato, but it looked like the Virgin Mary. It sold for $28K.
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this just posted on Banjo-L, i got a good laugh out of it:
http://www.geoffellis.com/ebay.html
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rh wrote:this just posted on Banjo-L, i got a good laugh out of it:
http://www.geoffellis.com/ebay.html
Brilliant!!!! :lol: :lol:

Do them all a favour and post this up on the Pub Forum.

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hmmm. over 2 days left, and over $2k bid, but no reserve yet ;) I really think this should have been sold in separate batches to allow more people to bid on what they can realistically "afford" and need. Who's going to need all those whistles at once, and want to pay $$$ . . . I guess we'll see . . . if I were a bettin' man, I'd say they will NOT meet the reserve. That's if I were a bettin' man, that is :D
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alespa wrote:hmmm. over 2 days left, and over $2k bid, but no reserve yet ;) I really think this should have been sold in separate batches to allow more people to bid on what they can realistically "afford" and need. Who's going to need all those whistles at once, and want to pay $$$ . . . I guess we'll see . . . if I were a bettin' man, I'd say they will NOT meet the reserve. That's if I were a bettin' man, that is :D
You don't have to be able to afford them all. You only have to be able to borrow what you need to get them for as long as it takes to sell on those you don't want. Well, that and gamble on not taking a loss on the overall deal. But, if you're right about the batch idea, the risk would be very small.

Seriously, I don't think $2k is even getting close.
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Howabout you buy them, and I'll sell them individually? Of course, I'll make sure nothing happens to them while we wait for buyers ;)
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. . . but seriously, did anyone notice that the voicing window on one of the whistles looks like there is cup-shaped dent in it? Since it's on the side of the window, I assume it doesn't effect anything?
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alespa wrote:Howabout you buy them, and I'll sell them individually? Of course, I'll make sure nothing happens to them while we wait for buyers ;)
:lol: Now here's MBA material if ever I saw it. :wink:
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