The four neighborhoods, Beltway, Dover, Archer Park, and Groveland are found on the south and west side of Chicago (fictitious names were chosen to protect their identities). Beltway was chosen as being the white neighborhood, Dover as being the white neighborhood in transition, Archer Park as being the Latino neighborhood, and Groveland as being the African American neighborhood.

Molly, I feel for you, but thanks for a strong season, I’m sure you made all of Chico very proud.

In the other semi, St. Rose took down Armstrong 2-1, just in case you were wondering.

http://hhmultimediallc.zenfolio.com/f305631131

I’m an artist, and my work is based on time, it’s meaning and identity.

I would be happy to answer any questions you might have about anything.

Kind regards,
Paul Sloan

P.S. My sincerest apologies and condolences for the death of your friend, especially at this time of year.

It is the revenue model of selling bids which is not consistent with live auctions. Live auctions charge an auction premium which is where the house makes its money. In my opinion, charging for the bids themselves makes BidFire more like a dollar slot machine than an auction.

I won an iPod Touch which was exactly as advertised and arrived promptly from Amazon. I purchased approximately 150 bids and paid approximately $100 for the item. So a $400 iPod Touch cost me $250 all in. I did not go back to BidFire because:
1) I was primarily there to experiment with their model as a consultant to a potential competitor.
2) There is some seemingly irrational behavior among bidders partially related to loss mitigation which is a defect in the BidFire model.
3) Bids are expensive and do not count toward a purchase of the product. At least one other site credits the cost of one’s bids toward the purchase of the product during the auction which eliminates the “loss mitigation” mentality that sometimes compels bidders above the outright purchase price on BidFire. For example, on a competitor’s site if you spend $350 on bids for a $399 product you can click a button before the auction ends to buy it now for $49. After buying the product one is no longer allowed to continue bidding in that auction but the other bidders are left in exactly the same position they were in. This is a much needed enhancement on BidFire.
4) Rarely during the period when I was experimenting with BidFire was there a glitch as reported in another review. I did see what I thought was a glitch that appeared to result in a different bidder than I expected winning the auction. I later determined the “glitch” was actually a network lag external to the BidFire site.
5) At a nickel increment per bid, BidFire is raking in $20 per $1 of product price. In many instances I saw BidFire collecting multiples of over ten times the cost of a product, e.g. $700 for a $500 gift card translates into $7000 paid by BidFire bidders just for bids plus $700 paid by the winning bidder for a $500 gift card, over a 15x multiple. In the instance of the auction I won, BidFire collected approximately $1,000 for bids plus my $100 for a total of $1100 for a $399 iPod Touch.

I won couple times on Bidfire, it’s a great experience and I had fun. All my winning are shipped in time, I’m happy