This Auction is starting on coming Saturday, the auction's format is up on the Hosta Library.

Just half a day away.
I'm just watching this year:)

Beverly

Nothing up yet, right? Other than informational posts? My first AHS auction, so just making sure I'm not missing something...

This will start later today, with plants and seeds being added over the next 2 weeks I remember. So we all have enough time getting our Hosta money ready. Bernd

They are offering the Journals on DVD for $40.00. My DW got me the set for Christmas and I am really enjoying them.

Okay, I went and looked, but found nothing except the Hosta Library Auction.

Can someone give me the link to the Auction itself?
I'm late!

Try this link

Here is a link that might be useful: 2014 AHS Online Auction

just looked over it and ther are some very nice ones up for sale..H."erotica" really has my eye but I need to do a few more pre orders before I throw down big hosta money

moccassin, go to the Hosta Library page, and in the very middle there is the link to the AHS Auction. (The usual Library Auction with the moving arrow is right below on that page, but you do not want to click on that.)

I went to it, and did not realize that from there I must click at the bottom of the 2nd page to get to the hosta listings. But I found it. Have one bid in now, before everything goes UP. Plus, AllNitro gave me the spot directly. Thanks for the help. I'm rather groggy this week.

I could not bid, they did not take my Hosta Library Auction password. Then I did their own registration, did not receive a password yet.

Bernd, the same thing happened to me. I REREGISTERED, using the same name. Then it took a while for the interim password to arrive. Like a couple of hours. I used that to sign in to my auction account or whatever, and changed my password to a personal one.

Of course after that happened, I had to bid on at least ONE hosta, don't cha kno. It happened to be H. 'Plum Pudding.'
I have Sugar Plum also from Bob Solberg, and I think this is related to it. At least, it appears on the "New 2014" hostas up on the Solberg website.

Get back in there, Bernd, it is something happy to think about.

Hello all,
January 15th indicated a server issue with one of the servers involved in running this auction. Your own personal service provider's server, the AHS's server, and the webmaster's server which sends out the email messages for passwords and out bid notices, etc. The service provider for generating emails was the culprit. This meant that all bids were going through and those registered prior to Wednesday could participate. Those that had been outbid could see they were outbid but only by checking the item page, not by relying upon an email notification.

This email generation step was clear by mid-day Wednesday. All is well in the universe again.

The most common problem of not receiving passwords when first registering has been that the email goes to folk's spam or junk mail folder. This is on the registrant's end of the communication. Check your folders and either click not junk or drag to your inbox (each email software is a bit different). This action of approving of mail coming into you will indicate to your spam filter that you want future emails from that address.

Appreciate your interest and enthusiasm!

Have fun and grab one of the treasures posted.

Moccasin, I am in there, got my password. There will be more getting added. I like those large hosta seeds of Jeff Miller for next year. I have too many good looking seedlings this year to buy new plants, because I have not much space left. By far not all my plants are mature yet, and some of them will have very tight spaces lateron.
But they have a very good offering this year. Bernd

Last day this Saturday. Oodles of new items posted the past three evenings in all three categories. Check it out!

Here is a link that might be useful: AHS Auction page

Hi medabber,
I understand that Auction time is Eastern Standard Time.
Otherwise I am a little confused. I read in several items on the Auction page :
"each item to close at posted time + 5 minute pause from the last bid posted."
I understand that this '+' is not a '-' or an 'or', but is an 'and'. How can you close at 2 different times?

1. Does that mean, when the item is scheduled to close at 19:30 posted time and the last bid is my bid at 19:29:00, then the results of the bids on this item will be displayed at 19:34, but not at 19:35?
2. In case someone else bids at 19:29:30 as the last bidder, then he will win that item, though the final display is 5 minutes later.
Thank you! Bernd

Bernd, some people wait until the very last minute to bid hoping to keep the price down. It used to be done a lot when Ebay was in it's heyday (I think they call it sniping). The point is - if someone comes in with a last minute bid, then the person who thought he had it won, has another 5 minutes to bid. It also serves the purpose of getting a last minute bidding war going thus raising the price of the object. The restaurant equipment auctioneers [here] do the same thing.

bk

Bernd,

If people keep bidding against each other in the final 5 minutes then the auction continues. It's extended by five minutes with each successive bid.

So if you bid at 19:29, it goes until 19:34. If the next bid comes in at 19:33, then it goes to 19:38, and so on until someone gives up and lets it go. I've seen some go on and on for 20 minutes or more after the original end time.

Steve

Thanks for walking me through that 5 minute feature which I did not understand.

Today and tomorrow, then it's over until next month.

This is an Aha! moment for me! So it is different this time, at least I did not notice that it worked this way before.

At the last auction in one seed item I waited it out to just before post time and got it. The other two items were at 10:30 pm, too late for me then, so I bid at 8:00 pm, and to great surprise, nobody was lurking to snatch it away, and I got those too.
Thanks to all explaining those 5 mins to me, so it could go on and on!
Bernd

This post was edited by berndnyz5 on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 14:20