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You'll remember Johnyyphi's extraordinary thread "Newbie. Lucky or Sucker? You Decide?"
In this thread and others, we learned that our new member Johnnyphi had quite accidentally happened upon something we've discussed here often as a fantasy: A large stock of unsold NOS vintage clothing and hats. LARGE being the operative word. It seemed too good to be true, and many of us may have been skeptical early on.
We want to reassure you that we have spent a great deal of time getting to know Johnnyphi, have spoken with him via phone, and some of us have sat down face to face over dinner with him. Our first concern was to make sure the whole story was on the level. Johnnyphi, we who have come to know him a bit are all agreed, is a responsible, true gentleman with an honest desire to A. offer Loungers a quite rare opportunity to be the first owners of hats made decades ago, and B., give back to the Lounge in sharing what he has discovered in the exhaustive processes of identifying, sorting and preparing these hats for new homes. The hats you will have the chance to buy in the coming weeks may be purchased in full confidence in the seller and the process. We would not be bending the rules a bit if we did not feel this was a one-of-a-kind opportunity for our members.
The hats will be sold via auction in a series of threads in the MERCHANTS section. You may post your BID in the thread. The minimum bid increment is $5. Each hat will be well identified and photographed. If you have questions about a particular hat, please FIRST search the Fedora Lounge for information about that hat brand and style before asking your questions in thread. Bartenders will be helping to handle the load of answering questions as well. Condition of each hat is NOS - New Old Stock. As Marc Chevalier once pointed out, NOS does NOT necessarily equal PERFECT. Any storage, fading or insect damage will be honestly noted in the description.
Each sale period/thread will be up for one week.
This first run is a trial and the process will get tweaked along the way.
The final winning bidder at auction close (which Johnnyphi will note), will be responsible for sending Johnnyphi a PM with their PayPal address (PayPal ONLY), and the winner will then receive an invoice for the winning amount, $15 shipping, and $5 handling ($20).
You may also PM questions about hats or the process to me, Zohar or AlanC.
Good Luck. We think this will be fun. It is a Fedora Lounge exclusive.
UPDATE:
Effective immediately, we're going to institute a "Soft" ending time for the auctions.
For example, an auction ends at 6 PM or 5 minutes following the last bid. If someone bids at 5:59 PM then the auction is extended to 6:04 PM unless someone else bids to push it back again. Whenever five minutes pass (based on timestamps of the posts) without a bid the auction is closed.
In this thread and others, we learned that our new member Johnnyphi had quite accidentally happened upon something we've discussed here often as a fantasy: A large stock of unsold NOS vintage clothing and hats. LARGE being the operative word. It seemed too good to be true, and many of us may have been skeptical early on.
We want to reassure you that we have spent a great deal of time getting to know Johnnyphi, have spoken with him via phone, and some of us have sat down face to face over dinner with him. Our first concern was to make sure the whole story was on the level. Johnnyphi, we who have come to know him a bit are all agreed, is a responsible, true gentleman with an honest desire to A. offer Loungers a quite rare opportunity to be the first owners of hats made decades ago, and B., give back to the Lounge in sharing what he has discovered in the exhaustive processes of identifying, sorting and preparing these hats for new homes. The hats you will have the chance to buy in the coming weeks may be purchased in full confidence in the seller and the process. We would not be bending the rules a bit if we did not feel this was a one-of-a-kind opportunity for our members.
The hats will be sold via auction in a series of threads in the MERCHANTS section. You may post your BID in the thread. The minimum bid increment is $5. Each hat will be well identified and photographed. If you have questions about a particular hat, please FIRST search the Fedora Lounge for information about that hat brand and style before asking your questions in thread. Bartenders will be helping to handle the load of answering questions as well. Condition of each hat is NOS - New Old Stock. As Marc Chevalier once pointed out, NOS does NOT necessarily equal PERFECT. Any storage, fading or insect damage will be honestly noted in the description.
Each sale period/thread will be up for one week.
This first run is a trial and the process will get tweaked along the way.
The final winning bidder at auction close (which Johnnyphi will note), will be responsible for sending Johnnyphi a PM with their PayPal address (PayPal ONLY), and the winner will then receive an invoice for the winning amount, $15 shipping, and $5 handling ($20).
You may also PM questions about hats or the process to me, Zohar or AlanC.
Good Luck. We think this will be fun. It is a Fedora Lounge exclusive.
UPDATE:
Effective immediately, we're going to institute a "Soft" ending time for the auctions.
For example, an auction ends at 6 PM or 5 minutes following the last bid. If someone bids at 5:59 PM then the auction is extended to 6:04 PM unless someone else bids to push it back again. Whenever five minutes pass (based on timestamps of the posts) without a bid the auction is closed.
