Ladies and Gentlemen, Please welcome your new overlord...

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 04:43PM #1

For Sale: One Internet Bar, good turnover, popular with the locals, also serves food and has resident DJ.

Yore Ma's is your typical Irish bar, ideally located in the Rec category, on the popular website, Boards.ie. The bar is spacious enough, with plenty of seating areas, including a unique snug, popular with some of the older clientèle. Another unique feature is the outdoor roof garden, though not yet finished, will be ideal for those long Summer nights we are so used to in this country.

The clientèle range from your internet-aware 20-somethings, to your refined, 30-something professionals, with the occasional older, scoundrel/lecherous type who don't like to talk about their age, but love getting jiggy with the young people.

It also comes complete with a fully fitted kitchen, with all modern conveniences and an experienced chef from Antwerp.

It is expected that the current staff will remain in situ, seeing as nobody else would hire them, but that is open to negotiations.

Why is the owner selling? Boards.ie has a popular charity, the Santa Strike Force, and all proceeds of this sale will go to that charity.

The serious bit

This is an auction for The Santa Strike Force. The winner of the auction will donate the winning amount to SSF and in return, get modship of BGRH for a week (or longer/shorter if we like/dislike you

).

How to take part in the auction - post your bids on this thread, serious bids only, please. If you would prefer to PM me your bid, I can post an acknowledgement in the thread for you.

Latchy · 07-12-2008 05:09PM

:eek: Can see some serious bidders for this .

07-12-2008 05:11PM

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Ruu_Old · 07-12-2008 05:12PM

15 europeans! Anything to keep it out of the clutch of one of them wimmens!

Saibh · 07-12-2008 05:13PM

Ruu wrote: »

15 europeans! Anything to keep it out of the clutch of one of them wimmens!

€20 :P

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 05:14PM

I am proxy-bidding for Lucy Lu who is in the US at the moment - €25.

Edit: didn't see Saibh sneak in there. Bid upped

copacetic · 07-12-2008 05:15PM

€30. I will reign with terror so outbid me or be banned...

Latchy · 07-12-2008 05:21PM

*Sticks hand up * £50

if only to say i once bid for yore ma's

Saibh · 07-12-2008 05:22PM

€55

6th · 07-12-2008 05:22PM

latchyco wrote: »

*Sticks hand up * £50

if only to say i once bid for yore ma's

What is that in €s?

Saibh · 07-12-2008 05:23PM

6th wrote: »

What is that in €s?

they must trade in £ in lapland

6th · 07-12-2008 05:24PM

Can you bid on someone elses behalf? Say I want to make a bid but if it wins I choose someone t o be the mod?

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 05:25PM

6th wrote: »

Can you bid on someone elses behalf? Say I want to make a bid but if it wins I choose someone t o be the mod?

Nope.

Latchy · 07-12-2008 05:30PM

6th wrote: »

What is that in €s?

About 85 euros ....roughly ? ( i haz no euro sign on keyboard )

Saibh wrote: »

they must trade in £ in lapland

Or reindeer meat

Zaph · 07-12-2008 05:33PM

latchyco wrote: »

About 85 euros ....roughly ? ( i haz no euro sign on keyboard )

Closer to €58 actually.

nkay1985 · 07-12-2008 05:34PM

6th wrote: »

Can you bid on someone elses behalf? Say I want to make a bid but if it wins I choose someone t o be the mod?

You could get that person to bid with the promise of refunding them I suppose?

Latchy · 07-12-2008 05:36PM

Zaph wrote: »

Closer to €58 actually.

typo error

Think euros much stronger at moement .

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 05:37PM

Zaph wrote: »

Closer to €58 actually.

At today's rates, yes, it approximates to €58. So latchyco has the leading bid at the moment.

copacetic · 07-12-2008 05:38PM

so is the bid at 58 or not? can we stick to euros please?

if so, €60. I've never been happy with the direction BGRH went
after a good start, a blood letting would do it good. muhahaha

Saibh · 07-12-2008 05:41PM

€65

copacetic · 07-12-2008 05:50PM

Saibh wrote: »

€65

whats your gameplan Saibh? Reign of terror or
reign of luvey duvey hugs and kisses for non-manly behaviour?

Saibh · 07-12-2008 05:57PM

copacetic wrote: »

whats your gameplan Saibh? Reign of terror or
reign of luvey duvey hugs and kisses for non-manly behaviour?

no game plan* but you will be the first to know

*yet

copacetic · 07-12-2008 05:59PM

ok then, in lieu of a firm reign of terror treaty.

€70

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 06:00PM

Wow, bid via that venerable messaging system, SMS. How quaint.

Our anonymous benefactor wishes to bid €80.

(Note: all PMs and text messages can be verified or shown upon request, this is all above board, seriously)

Saibh · 07-12-2008 06:04PM

my final offer - €100

copacetic · 07-12-2008 06:04PM

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Wow, bid via that venerable messaging system, SMS. How quaint.

Our anonymous benefactor wishes to bid €80.

(Note: all PMs and text messages can be verified or shown upon request, this is all above board, seriously)

whens the end of auction Tom?

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 06:07PM

Saibh wrote: »

my final offer - €100

Wow! Fair play to you.

copacetic wrote: »

whens the end of auction Tom?

Probably Friday week, the 19th of December, I have to get onto to DeVore and find out when they plan the strike. It's usually the week/weekend before Christmas, AFAIR.

I will update the thread title when I find out for sure.

copacetic · 07-12-2008 06:09PM

right then, auction fever has died off based on that info. Will wait until last couple of days, can we make last bid a reasonable time of the day so people won't all be in the pub?

Great idea, by the way. Maybe we could make in a boardswide thing??

Saibh · 07-12-2008 06:12PM

copacetic wrote: »

Great idea, by the way. Maybe we could make in a boardswide thing??

+1

Hagar · 07-12-2008 06:14PM

Tom Dunne wrote: »

I am proxy-bidding for Lucy Lu

6th wrote: »

Can you bid on someone elses behalf?

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Nope.

Stirs, whistles innocently and sneaks away.

Tom Dunne · 07-12-2008 06:14PM

copacetic wrote: »

right then, auction fever has died off based on that info. Will wait until last couple of days, can we make last bid a reasonable time of the day so people won't all be in the pub?

Yeah, good point. I haven't thought this through fully.

I'll wait until I hear back from DeVore and see what he says.

copacetic wrote: »

Great idea, by the way. Maybe we could make in a boardswide thing??

If the powers that be want to do it, not a bother. Again, I'll let DeV make the call on that one.

If everybody put a link in their signature, it would help spread the word too.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please welcome your new overlord...

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