Colorado
Masterpiece
I think it is interesting that they are doing an auction format. I will not be bidding, but I am curious to watch and see how high those bids will go!
Last (ever?) Mirai Tree Sale
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namnhi
Masterpiece
I think I will bid for all of them at the minimum price and see how many I will get. Can you imagine if I win a few. I have heard a lot of people don't go for the beautiful girls because they afraid of rejection.... This could be one of those chance. 
Jrmcmich
Shohin
So your telling me there’s a chanceI think I will bid for all of them at the minimum price and see how many I will get. Can you imagine if I win a few. I have heard a lot of people don't go for the beautiful girls because they afraid of rejection.... This could be one of those chance.
BrianBay9
Masterpiece
I think I will bid for all of them at the minimum price and see how many I will get. Can you imagine if I win a few. I have heard a lot of people don't go for the beautiful girls because they afraid of rejection.... This could be one of those chance.
I assume there's a unnamed reserve price significantly higher than the opening bid?
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
I didn’t read that as requirement of some kind of instruction. I read as one of Ryan’s hyperbolic purple prose writing style. As in “these trees have been on a historic path. Buy only if you dare to continue down that historic road.” Or insert your own adjectives and overblown narrative
it’s unclear from what I saw. There is an “estimated market value” on them. Don’t know if that qualifies as the reserve though
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Read this fb post today and the journey stuf is kind of explainedI didn’t read that as requirement of some kind of instruction. I read as one of Ryan’s hyperbolic purple prose writing style. As in “these trees have been on a historic path. Buy only if you dare to continue down that historic road.” Or insert your own adjectives and overblown narrative
it’s unclear from what I saw. There is an “estimated market value” on them. Don’t know if that qualifies as the reserve though
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Wood
Chumono
I haven't seen anything about a reserve price -- wouldn't that need to be listed in legal terms? This was the closest I could find:
shohin_branches
Chumono
I'm seeing bids that don't contain an obfuscated name. Where do I log the bug? Lol
leatherback
The Treedeemer
sad that the auction website has been shielded for non-usa visitors.
shohin_branches
Chumono
You could use a VPN to trick the server into thinking you're in the US. I don't get why they use geo ip to hide the whole auction when they could just disable bidding for people outside the US
Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
It's less hard on people to not see what they could have had, than to let them dip their toes in, fill in a bunch of forms and then get denied.
It is a psychological game that quizzes (like the online IQ-quizzes circulating lately) make use of: do the whole 45 minute IQ test and THEN get served by a paywall to see your estimated IQ. Sunk cost fallacy kicks in and people are more likely to buy their score chart at a premium.
Mirai seems to not go down that road, which is a friendly nod to the more sensitive people. It also prevents a bunch of angry emails from Europeans who culturally, don't tend to sugarcoat things as nicely as Ryan does.
shohin_branches
Chumono
Looks like Mirai accounts didn't force Names on creation so they have added email field as well after I brought forward the defect. I would love to see the obfuscation logic though because you can see that my email has a . In the middle. Time to change my name to C.A.M... oh nvm
How much should I invoice for the QA services?
J/k
How much should I invoice for the QA services?
J/k
pandacular
Masterpiece
I assume these are proxy bids. So CL set a proxy bid at >$2k, then other bidders bid them up. When someone else bids $1500, it automatically proxies CLs $1600, for example
pandacular
Masterpiece
oh lol never mind it’s just a bug
clem
Chumono
Can someone who has access to the auctions show us the results with the differents trees and adjudication prices ? @shohin_branches maybe ? ^^
clem
Chumono
yes it would have been more "correct" than to send email to everybody about this auction, to then exclude them from this sale
RJG2
Omono
clem
Chumono
RJG2
Omono
No problem. Still plenty of time left; will be curious to see the final hours - but the azalea shot up close to Mirai's "market value" price.
Today:
Trident @ $4,100.00
(Mirai's) Listed market value: $15,500
Spruce @ $2,850.00
(Mirai's) Listed market value: $9,200
Hornbeam @ $4,550.00
(Mirai's) Listed market value: $11,500
Ponderosa @ $2,600.00
(Mirai's) Listed market value: $14,200
Satsuki @ $9,150.00
(Mirai's) Listed market value: $9,600
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
I don't think it's popularity. It's the quality of the conifers. Don't get me wrong, both are nice, but they're not as fine or (refined) as the hornbeam, maple and satsuki.
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