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navnurs Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 7:42 AM EST
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I laugh to see the starting bid for these sticks! Has anyone ever found one for the lowest start? I never have. Just thought it was BS. However, do not get me wrong. These are the best prices anywhere!
mhollowa Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 10:35 AM EST
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You must have blinked. Starting bids last about as long as a handshake between the Bill Clinton and Bill Bennett.
SteveS Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 10:51 AM EST
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Actually, I've WON bids at the starting price, although I must say, I lived to regret those ... stuff with actual value tends to get bid on pretty doggone quickly with some stuff even rising beyond all sensibility. However, most eventual winning bids are, as you observe, pretty good values.
delarob Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 11:39 AM EST
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Once. The Dandy Don video for starting or very close to starting price.
CL Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 1:33 PM EST
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I bit on that video, too. The Victor Sinclair sports video, right? I got it over a year ago - I have yet to watch it! Is it "must see"?
navnurs Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 3:05 PM EST
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Alrighty then, glad to know there have been some lucky folks out there. Thanks for the info!
snogler Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 5:54 PM EST
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The only thing I'm "lucky" enough to get at or near the starting price are the unknowns-often to me as well. I'll usually try something in a 5 pack if it's the shape, size, and wrapper I like, esp. when they're less than $2 a stick. Of course, about the time I figure out they're a bargain, so do the rest of you and the price goes up.

On standard favorites (of mine anyway) like CAO's and ONYX's, it's hard to get them for anywhere near the starting bid price, but, they're still cheaper than anywhere else usually. I often bounce bid prices against cigar discouters such as jrcigars to see if they're still real enough to bid on.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, May 13 2002, 8:11 PM EST
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navnurs "these sticks" what sticks are you talking about?
delarob Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, May 14 2002, 2:34 AM EST
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I used to live in the sticks, but not those.
BMW Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, May 14 2002, 2:43 PM EST
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Rick, I think he's talking about "Tied" Sticks. I know some other people that fell for that in the 60's. "Tied Sticks" - a.k.a. a bundle of fire wood.
Barry
navnurs Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, May 14 2002, 3:31 PM EST
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Yes, you are right! If you are able to read the code correctly you can find lots where they are selling real, dipped, Tye sticks. It is kinda hard sometimes though to tell the real ones from the fakes!
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, May 14 2002, 5:12 PM EST
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navnurs : no it isn't. ask the man who has ridden one.
eleltea Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, May 15 2002, 3:36 AM EST
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Anyone remember Thai-dyed shirts? Never had one of the sticks, though. Is it more like a chopstick or a wokking cane? BTW, what's this thread about?
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, May 15 2002, 7:15 AM EST
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13 posts, not counting this one for a grand total of 15.
JonR Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, May 15 2002, 8:22 AM EST
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Make that sixteen. JonR
xibbumbero Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, May 15 2002, 8:27 AM EST
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Sleventeen
Orv Offline
#17 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 4:30 AM EST
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I ate at a Thai restaurant once, does that count?

ORV
xibbumbero Offline
#18 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 8:02 AM EST
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I once touched a thigh in a Mexican restaurant. Does that count?
delarob Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 8:19 AM EST
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I own several ties... None shaped like a stick.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 10:40 AM EST
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JonR & xibbumbero sorry to grade your papers, but "13 plus this one does not make fifteen." youse guys didn't get it. care to go snipe hunting with me?
xibbumbero Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 11:45 AM EST
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Snipe hunting! Oh boy ,Oh boy,lets go,lets go. Can I hold the bag?
Ya, after looking back at No of replies.I went woops,Rick got me. I could hear the line singing off your reel. X
JonR Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 1:52 PM EST
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Rick: I will not make excuses for my mathamatical mistake however in all honesty I must say there are extenuating circumstances 1. I was sober when I replied to the thread, 2. I am a product of the Philadelphia school system which has just been taken over by the state of Pennsylvania because of low math grades, 3. My math teacher always had boogers hanging from her nose, 4. When it was my time to do a problem on the blackboard the only thing left to write with was charcoal, How many does that make at least eleven? And finally tailgater always picks on my Philadelphia sports teams. JonR
freecigars2002 Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, May 16 2002, 5:18 PM EST
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Yes once an auction ended at the start price..It was a smiley face tee shirt in size large..
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