Just sent off my second payment so hopefully I will get my second book from David (john's collection) next week. But with Sun and the Holiday, who knows.
Just sent off my second payment so hopefully I will get my second book from David (john's collection) next week. But with Sun and the Holiday, who knows.
My Collection
https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ction-MikeDuke
My Suntup Flikr page
https://www.flickr.com/people/190710085@N03/
are we supposed to wait for an invoice or pay immediately? I got a "yours" on an item but haven't bought anything from this sale yet so I'm not sure what to do.
Wanted
CD Carrie Portfolio 719
Dark Tower S/N LE's 171 or 203
ANY Stephen King S/N LE #171 or 719
A Storm of Swords #218 or 346
Ancillary Justice #455
American Gods (+ SC Reader copy) #624
Michael Whelan original art
DT VII: Michael Whelan Remarque
You can reach out to David at david@bettsbooks.com or (203) 292-8616 (can leave a voicemail if he doesn't answer) and pass along your CC and shipping info, it'll actually save him the time of having to send you an invoice and wait for a response (I mean, you're going to pay the total no matter what, right?). He has a ton of messages to go through, first round of "you got its", follow-ups, questions, invoices, etc.; anything to make it easier on him I'm sure is greatly appreciated.are we supposed to wait for an invoice or pay immediately? I got a "yours" on an item but haven't bought anything from this sale yet so I'm not sure what to do.
WANT LIST: Any SK #186; Dark Man Unbound 1st Proof; FDNS Unbound 1st Proof; FDNS Black Tape Spine Proof; FDNS Unbound Color Proof
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Very nice copy
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
UPDATE: Made it through 400+ emails....a few latecomers wanting stuff I need to respond to...Next up shipping and accounting for wave 3.
Wave 4 posting I'm guessing mid-February....
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
New items at Betts.
Seems lo be a lot of same book stocks : CD books, Charlie the Choo Choo, Letterpress and more
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I've saved almost $2,000 so far this year on books from Bett's with the simple reply of, "Taken already, sorry." <sigh>
There are no coincidences. Only Ka.
~I don't like rep points! ~
Please use only the 'I disapprove' option for me. (If it do ya fine.)
David has a new silent auction for a lettered copy of "Later"
Starting bid at $2,999
It will be interesting to see how much it sells for
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Still haven't seen the item from John's collection I'm most eager for. I wonder how many more waves there will be?
But crossing my fingers I was quick enough to grab my request for today...
EDIT: Looks like next month or April is "comics and magazines" but hopefully more than that as my item is not a comic or magazine!
sigh, I knew there was one item I really wanted, so I had Betts page loaded and the title already typed in the search bar. Keep refreshing ever 3 seconds or so, and as soon as it refreshed, clicked on next match, found what I was looking for copied into mouse buffer and pasted into pre-typed email and pressed send. Couldn't have taken more then 15 seconds tops, but I was still 30 seconds too late.
Drat.
There was one other item on this list, so sent another email probably 2 or 3 minutes later, probably will take David a long time to get to that email. So cross fingers.
Still a few more items I am looking for, mostly portfolio's so maybe they will be in next batch.
Wanted:
'Salem's Lot Portfolio #606
Fairy Tale UK S/L
I completely forgot about this. I just sent an email, but have low expectations given how late it is already.
I'm guessing that flastsigned 1st of Duma Key was gone within the first minute or so.
It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children
Less than a minute for sure - I was refreshing on my fiber connection and the site didn't load until ~3:01, my email was out at 3:02 and David replied that I was already fifth on the list...
In the first wave I sent an email ~40 seconds in and missed my item. I didn't try on the second wave. In the third wave I sent one in under 20 seconds and actually got something! The reason it took me a full minute this time is that I was scouring for the item I really, really wanted but didn't see it so then I actually started to read the list and got to Duma before I emailed... Tough ride, these drops!!
would be interesting to know how much my email provider factored into how long it took to arrive in David's inbox. I use yahoo.
Maybe I shouldn't have used my work computer with the VPN.
Ended up sending 4 emails, the last 2 contained books I wasn't even expecting to be on the list, so wasn't on the look out. The last one might yield results, because I don't think it was a "hot" item.
Wanted:
'Salem's Lot Portfolio #606
Fairy Tale UK S/L
I'm not sure about Yahoo, but gmail lets you query metadata - I can tell the second my email went out and also how long it took to deliver (in this case "0 seconds" but it doesn't get down to milliseconds in the generally available tools). See if there's an option for something like "show details" or "show original". Honestly I never used it before but after the first wave when it became clear that seconds literally matter I was very curious...
Wanted
CD Carrie Portfolio 719
Dark Tower S/N LE's 171 or 203
ANY Stephen King S/N LE #171 or 719
A Storm of Swords #218 or 346
Ancillary Justice #455
American Gods (+ SC Reader copy) #624
Michael Whelan original art
DT VII: Michael Whelan Remarque
It is fascinating to listen to collecting achievements and aims met, based on milliseconds.
I am slightly relieved that my additions are of a more sedentary nature!
Saw that a Mr. Mercedes went for $799, I will still get one at some point for $1000 (hoping).
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
I forgot all about this sale too. Saw a Buick 8 went for $625.....wish I had remembered and tried to jump on that one.
Struck out on all 8 claims I put it in. I put in claims within the first 3 minutes too! Oh well. Just saves money for other books I want.
It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children
unfortunately, I only put in for one item and it was a big ticket price item, so I couldn't afford to swing for more than one (In case i somehow won it)
Wanted
CD Carrie Portfolio 719
Dark Tower S/N LE's 171 or 203
ANY Stephen King S/N LE #171 or 719
A Storm of Swords #218 or 346
Ancillary Justice #455
American Gods (+ SC Reader copy) #624
Michael Whelan original art
DT VII: Michael Whelan Remarque