I'm dumping this idea here, tho it's not exactly related to annual FRs.

It would be nice if Auction winners could undertake to offer the item they win to the other bidders as a resource. The item itself would not need to travel, but a private arrangement could be made to share some small part of the contents. The benficiary of the winner's generous spirit could agree to send Mudcat, in gratitude, all or part of their own last bid before they were outbid.

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In my hard drive somewhere is the brochure material Max OK'd awhile back. I made it to go in my autoharp case to make available when people are curious about the sources for the someway obscure material that is my specialty. The idea was, originally, that such an item could be made downloadable at Mudcat and y'all could download it whenever you wanted and use it as an original to print up as many as you want to distribute. (Thus, no cost to Mudcat to supply a brochure for our use.)

I think it was me who dropped the ball, BTW, on getting a finished copy to Max. A PM from someone who would upload it to Mudcat will resolve that.

Of course, I'd also give Mudcat a cut of my proceeds for playing, but the Cat's in a deep enough hole financially already-- I don't get bupkiss! :~)

~Susan