As Mr. Brown said, the value of the SSCS piece of rope from the ship may be lost on some who are not familiar with the details of SSCS campaigns...

But I spent 3 months on the Steve in the Antarctic and something as simple as a rope can make the difference between success and failure in stopping the Japanese harpoon ships and saving a whale. It can make the difference between successfully deploying a small boat into troubled waters or a failed attempt resulting in injury. It makes refueling the damaged and crippled Brigitte Bardot possible in the middle of nowhere so she can make it to land safely. It makes food and fuel transfer on the ocean from the Bob Barker possible.

I have seen everything described above. I have been at both ends of that rope. I have held onto the rope for dear life as we all froze on the deck trying to deploy or dock the delta boats in pitch black night, I was on the boat being lowered onto the ocean and putting my life in the hands of those handling those ropes.

For those following the activity of SSCS and for those who have watched Whale Wars that rope holds a lot of meaning. For those like me it holds a lot of memories.

It's not a rope. It's a hundred stories braided together.

xo
A.

Hi Paul,

I'm always a bit concerned about 'shill bidding' within sites that do not have sufficient feedback &/or bidder profiles available. I don't see anything mentioned about it within your rules & regulations. Can you say a few words about your stand on the practice and how it's best monitored?

Thanks in advance and best of luck with your auction - you have some really great items up for grabs!!!!

It's already up to $765 and only been open for a few hours.

incredible! You could almost fly to his next appearance, have a chat, & get your own knife signed for that. Let's see what the hammer price goes for .....

Lol, completely agree! At least proceeds will be going to a great cause.

I expect the closing price will be well in excess of the cost of tickets to fly to his appearance from anywhere in the world, however it may not meet the extra costs of accommodation while there.

.... macgyver it & couchsurf.


At any rate there seems to be a few overzealous bidders placing lofty proxy bids(unofficial reserves?) on several items. This is something that's almost never done on Ebay, at least by savvy bidders/colletors .... unless of course they have money to burn and/or have a personal interest in upping the ante.

Not sure how a proxy is an unofficial reserve? Proxy is just automatic bidding up to you're chosen amount. The reserve is the minimum price the seller wants the bidding to reach before they will let the item go. Seems like two completely different things to me.

Well, on Ebay it works like this..... A low starting bid, no reserve auction is sure to attract the most attention and associated salivating. Now everybody is champing at the bit for (say) that signed RDA nugget. Done, instant frenzy starting at $9.99 Wow ,,,,,,,


But I want to get at least a $1000.00 for that knife ..... so I open another account and place a proxy bid for $999.00 and if somebody outbids me for that (for all intents & purposes) 'reserve' - they're welcome to it. If not and I inadvertently win it myself, I can either file a nonpaying bidder claim & relist it or buy it off myself and again relist it at a later date & until I get the price I want. Got it?

I'm not saying that this is the case at all with this charity auction .... but there's a number of routine checkpoints that one usually goes through before placing a bid including checking all feedback of both the seller and they're history of bidders plus their bidding rules & regulations (if any) and with this particular auction site/format any due diligence as such seems much harder to carry out.

I see what you mean. That would be a lot of work on places like ebay where they have multiple checks in place for fake accounts.

I questioned to myself when I first saw the sea shepard site "Why didn't they just do it through eBay?" They would have gotten a much larger audience and probably a bigger bidding pool.

It will be interesting to see how many items bidder:jellytot1965 actually buys. He/She seems to have extremely eclectic tastes, deep pockets, and a very, very itchy bidding finger.

She.

It does look like Giulia's trying to buy everything on the site doesn't it.

Hmm... Now that you mentioned it they are bidding on almost every item, and not only MacGyver/Stargate items.. Someone has deeeep pockets!

RDA's personal Legend crew jacket is up for auction.

Sadly though this is the last item of the auction.

Paul did say that if RDA's box of goodies turned up too late there would be another special auction shortly after this one so hopefully we'll see more MacGyver stuff soon.

Go to auction page

You would've thought that he'd have sent any MacGyver memorabilia along with the Legend jacket. These items were to be among the highlights of the auction afterall .......

Although there has been a decent amount of StarGate and RDA general items, considering the amount of traffic generated with the mention of "Rare MacGyver items" the final outcome of only having 1 MacGyver item listed is, well, disappointing at best.

Remember what Paul said though

So there may still be hope.

Agreed. And the provenance (or lack there of) of the item (sak) listed under the 'MacGyver' category was slightly uncertain at best. Hopefully our patience will be rewarded in the near future.

RDA's own personal StarGate crew jacket.

Paul Brown has just confirmed on twitter that more MacGyver items will be in the next auction they hold.

It sounds like RDA never included any MacGyver items in the shipment that was sent out on Jan 27.

Those guys have to learn that we all didn't just roll off the turnip truck - we do our due diligence - just the way our mentor Mac has taught us.



The next auction? When might that be?

The bidder is a woman named Giulia. She's an awesome lady, a huge SSCS supporter and a regular on the SG con circuit.

The non-prop signed went for $1,526.00 only.

Only??

Okay, so it's a tad hefty price tag and I (frugally) have built an entire sak collection for under that final invoice tally. But the good news is that it's raised money for a worthy cause and someone within that tight knit supporter/vendor circle took home first prize.