Steembay auction - original painting up for auction on steemit
I just read up on a new, very cool auction bot here on the steem blockchain: @steembay has developed an easy way to put up auctions right here. Details on how it works can be found in @steembay's announcement post here. With thanks to @shortcut's drawing-up-for-auction-post for trying it out and grabbing my attention!
In short: when you make a post with the tag 'steembay', a bot will run your post as an auction. What you put up for auction: SBD-holders will be able to bid on it by commenting 'bid 4' or 'bid 7', or whatever amount in SBD they wish to buy what's on auction. When the post reaches payout, the auction is over and the highest bidder wins the item up for auction.
So, I'll test the new @steembay bot by putting up this original painting for auction: "Little Spook", which I made some time ago for @juliakponsford's artexplosion contest (nr. 2, to be precise!)
This is a small painting, 18x24cm (7x9.5" approximately), oils on canvas with glow in the dark-paint on top of the spook! You can see the glow in this picture, but as this was photographed, I cannot say it will look this bright in the darkness, though:
You can find the original post here.
So, bidding's on! I'll start the bidding at 5 SBD, which takes care of my shipping costs (a bit). The highest bidder, when this post pays out, can contact me (via comment, steemit chat: @marty-art, discord: @marty-art) to send me his/her shipping address. Bidder pays first, then I'll ship.
A generous thank you goes out to @pollux.one and @schererf for developing @steembay, let's have some fun! If this works out fine, there may be plenty more to come!
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bid 6.0
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @thatsweeneyguy's bid of 6.000 SBD
w00t, thanks @thatsweeneyguy, first bid! Never mind making it a double one :)
@thatsweeneyguy's bid of 6.000 SBD has been overbid by @shortcut's bid of 10.000 SBD
start 5.0
Auction is now opened. Starting price is: 5.000 SBD
Bids will be accepted until cashout time: 2017-11-28T20:11:12 UTC
bid 6.0
The bid was rejected because the amount is to low. The bid has to be higher than @thatsweeneyguy's bid of 6.000 SBD
Curious to see how SteemBay works out. Good fortune to you @marty-art! =)
Thanks @leoplaw, we'll see!
Great! I'm glad you're trying it out and happily bid 10
bid 10.0
The #steembay Auction has finished.
The winning bidder is @shortcut with an amount of 10.000 SBD - Congratulations!
Yeah! I'm so happy, that I've won the auction!!!
Hopefully you will give it to me, although 10 SBD is really a steal for this ;-)
My pleasure, it's all yours! Just made a last pic of it in my workplace :)
I'll get the print sorted and mail both at the same time ok? And, hey, thanks for sending the sbd so quickly!
Yes, please :-)
I'm not in a hurry, although really looking forward to it!
Will happily make a post about it, when I got them ;-)
Thanks in advance!
That would be awesome, I'll try to sort this out asap!
Bid accepted! Highest bid is now @shortcut's bid of 10.000 SBD
Haha, yeah, this is awesome, thank you!
I thought about trying to do the book this way, but it's kinda hard to bid on something with a fixed price. By the way... what are you doing on here lol... I'm already working on a rewrite for the Lottery Council. I'll send you an email.
Hey, you could put up an autographed copy of the book up for auction? Or autographed by both of us? Such a copy would need to ship around the world quite a lot?
Mail me!
Haha... Nobody in their right mind would want my autograph... You're much more talented than me- so maybe yours!
You never know, man. One copy with both our names, wouldn't that be cool? I'd sign for that (ooh, bad pun, it's getting late.. :)
Ok read your email before you go to bed!
bid 6.0
The bid was rejected because the amount is to low. The bid has to be higher than @thatsweeneyguy's bid of 6.000 SBD
lol. wasn't sure where to bid :D