Red Cross Bidding Begins April 9th

This is the email sent to me today

As you know, Cedar Point is completing another world class rollercoaster called Maverick which will debuted on the park's opening day. Firelands Chapter, American Red Cross has been offered the opportunity to give inaugural rides on the Maverick before the park opens on May 12. As before, the seats will be auctioned off the the highest bidders on our web site

with bids starting at $75. The Maverick site will open and bidding will start on April 9. We invite you to check out our site and place a bid. Thank you for your support in the past


*** Edited 3/20/2007 6:48:48 PM UTC by Cedar Point Man***


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Jason Hammond's avatar

Ya beat me to it CPMan.


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djDaemon's avatar

Obviously, this chapter of the Red Cross is based out of the Ohio. ;)


Brandon

Are you bidding again Jason?


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Jason Hammond's avatar

I Havn't decided yet. How many days did the bidding go for last year?


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I just bid. Doubt it will last.. but we'll see.


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Put my bid in, I thought that I should do something useful with some of my Tax Return.


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Loopy's avatar

I wish they'd put the 72 seats on the web page so you can select which seat you would like to bid on. Also, put what order in which the trains will dispatch so that the first train may garner a higher bid and us el cheapos can just bid on the last train.


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Ride on, MrScott!

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The highest bidder gets his/her choice of seat, then #2 picks, and so on. You won't know what seat you're in until the morning of the event.


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Loopy's avatar

Oh no, I understand how it works.

I just wish they would at least post the highest and lowest bids.


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Ride on, MrScott!

You think that would force a bidding war and thus make them more money. I guess the Red Cross doesn't want our money.

*** Edited 4/11/2007 5:06:37 PM UTC by BGRooDoG***


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2009 - ATL Raptor
2010 - TL Sweeps
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Loopy's avatar

Yes, that was what I was getting at. Like eBay or something.


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Ride on, MrScott!

Walt's avatar

The top 72 bids will eventually be listed.


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Loopy's avatar

Ahhh, thanks Walt.


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Ride on, MrScott!

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Walt beat me to it, but yes they will eventualy be posted. They have to call and verify payment method on every bid. So if there were a ton of initial bids, it could take a while to do the verification. IIRC once they started listing the bids for Skyhawk, the updates were nearly every day. But it is far from a real time auction. So bid early and bid high. :)

*** Edited 4/11/2007 6:24:37 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***


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Current Winning bids are up, woohooo. Lets see how fast my bid drops.


Cedar Point Lifer, RideOp, Now Park Guest
2008 - Mantis/MF/Skyride
2009 - ATL Raptor
2010 - TL Sweeps
2011 & 2012 - Area 3 Rides Supervisor

How high did the bids get for Skyhawk? I'd be willing to bid some but not more than a few hundred dollars. I'm not made of money here but getting one of the first rides would be amazing!

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I belive it was somewhere around 500 or 550. I was at 105 for Skyhawk. I feel safe in saying that with over 3 weeks of bidding left, my bid last year of 105 won't have a chance this year.
*** Edited 4/17/2007 10:06:35 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***


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Yeah, there's already a bid in for $800. Not looking good for my potential $130 bid!

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It's up to $900 with the total aproaching $22,000.


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