I must receive your BOOMERANG AUCTION BID SHEET by midnight on 1 November 2024. The earliest bid (based on email or postmark date) breaks all ties. I will occasionally email summaries of current winning bids until the final bid date of 1 November 2024. You are expected to purchase the auction items that you win and to make payment within two weeks after receiving your invoice or the boomerangs you won will be offered to other auction participants or returned to the seller. Please use conditional bidding to make choices and to set spending limits.

If you plan to bid on only a few auction items, please make up a small list of item numbers, bids, and conditions and email your list to: Ted Bailey. I would prefer that your bids be part of the body of the email, rather than in an attached MS Word or Excel or pdf document. If you plan to submit lots of bids, it is OK to attach a document with your bid sheet or you can print out and mail a copy of the INTERNET BOOMERANG AUCTION BID SHEET by postal mail to the address at the bottom of this web page.

You may make up to three bids per boomerang. Your lowest bid that exceeds any other bidder's highest bid wins. All bids must be to the nearest whole dollar.

Example: There are four bidders for item #40. The low, middle and high bids for each are:

The middle bid for bidder #2 is $16. This is more than bidder #1's highest bid of $15. Therefore, bidder #2 wins with his middle bid of $16. This method of bidding provides each bidder with an opportunity to obtain the boomerangs he/she wants without overbidding on anything.

You may also bid conditionally, such as: "only one of either item XX or YY" or you can set a dollar limit for all of your bids and specify an order or priority. Please keep your conditions simple so that I can follow your intentions. In addition, you will have an extra safeguard such that your winning bid cannot exceed the next highest bid by more than 10%. Therefore, if you bid $100 on a boomerang and the next highest bid is $50, then you win the boomerang, but you only owe $55.

The bidding period is 19 Sepember -> 1 November. I plan to email a summary of the current winning bids before the end of the auction. I will send this summary only to those who have placed bids at that time. The last day of bidding (1 November 2024) will be silent. I will get up early on the morning of 2 November 2024 and retrieve all final bids from my email inbox. You may adjust your bids a maximum of three times during the auction. Please keep my work to a minimum because my vision is quite limited.

Bid what you are willing to pay for an item. The most successful bidders use conditional bidding. Conditional bidding allows a bidder to win one or two items from a group of several boomerangs, then their remaining bids drop out for others to win. You can also set a total spending limit and list an order of preference for the boomerangs that you wish to win. This allows you to bid on a large number of boomerangs without worrying that you will win too many. You may not change your conditions or bid limits after the bidding has ended. You may not set a condition that you will choose among the boomerangs that you won after the auction has ended. If you use a condition that you want X number of boomerangs from a select group and you do not specify the specific order, then I will choose which boomerang you win.

If you see a boomerang with a bid that exceeds the price that you are willing to pay, you can still place a bid on it and have a chance to win it. In each auction, there are a lot of conditional bids that drop out at the end of the auction. Sometimes several bids drop out and a lucky bidder wins a great boomerang at a bargain basement price.

All bidding must be in USA currency in whole dollar units (no cents). If you do not live in the USA, then payment must be in USA currency and payment should be made by PayPal. Under certain situations, If you have any questions about how to make payment, contact: Ted Bailey or visit:

You will be expected to pay the actual shipping charges for all boomerangs that you win. The flat $7 shipping charge for catalog sales to a USA address is not valid for auction sales. If you want guaranteed shipping, I recommend that you pay for postal insurance if sent to a USA address or priority mail or Express Mail if sent to an overseas address. Payment must be received before shipping. Please plan on shipping costs when you bid, especially from an overseas address.

All bids must be emailed to: Ted Bailey or sent by postal mail to the following address:

You may email or call Ted Bailey with questions at reasonable hours on weekdays or weekends at: (734)-971-2970