REA Catalog
 

Is it just me, or is this thing getting out of hand? Showed up today at a whopping 6 pounds. It seems like more than a tad overkill considering the photos online are almost always better and more detailed. It must cost them $20+ to print and ship each one.

Is that a complaint? I don't understand, I love it.

I don't understand either? If you don't want a catalog, either remove your name or don't ask for one.

I just shake my head when I see things like this. Let me ask for something, then complain about it.

Count me as one who prefers the catalog to online.

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Frank

Rea
 

Me three!! I love getting the catalog. I don't care how big it is. REA provides it for free to any bidder. Why would you complain?

Just think about it, in a few more months, we'll be getting another one!!

Tony

The REA catalog is one of the few that I save. I also saved the Dreier-related catalogs from Legendary, though.

Same with me Brian, I save the Dreier catalogs because I bought a few items from it :D

How could anyone complain about getting a free catalog? Six pounds is nothing. I smile like a new daddy every time it arrives on my doorstep. The first Net 54 member to receive it each year should start a new thread entitled "201x REA Catalog: 6 lbs x oz."

I'd much rather get a free REA Catalog than a free telephone book, any city, but might think twice about purchasing either. :D

Can't wait to get mine! Even smells good! :)

Best,

Andy

Hmm, Do you really think they are free!! I love the catalog, but the winners of the lots pay for them with the 18.5% buyers premium. I would rather not get the catalog and only pay 18% or what ever it cost to print them.

That catalog is the highlight of the year. It almost takes a full year to read, then comes another one.

I love the day the catalog arrives. I page thru it for hours...I also save them, have his catalogs going back to 1997.

I'm w/ Sarno!
Hope mine arrives Monday!

Carried both Heritage and REA to the coffee shop yesterday, and pulled a back muscle.

Kind of like reading the newspaper - I do it every single morning and love that old familiar tactile experience. Can't imagine having to get all of my auction lot information from looking at a computer screen.

Haven't received the REA one yet, but the most recent SCP catalog was two in one! No complaints of course. ;)

You know this country's pretty freakin' great if we have people complaining about a free auction catalog.:)

Slow your roll, people. I'm not complaining about getting the catalog. I love getting it as much as you do. But as someone who likes to actually put some thought into the resources he consumes, I think that a 3 page write up for a single card is excessive.

I usually save the catalogs that have my consignments in them, REA and some special ones like the Legenday e107 catalog.

There was a real cool one from Hunt with all the packs of cigarettes in it with a card to match.

I used to save every one and print the winning bid prices and file them but with everything saved on line there is no need for that anymore.

Jim- I used to do the same (print out prices realized and save with each catalog), but as you said, it's all online now...I have several shelves on my bookcase filled with great catalogs, I try to only save the best of the best, every so often I'll edit thru them and recycle. They're great to look thru on a rainy day, or reference when doing research. I'm still a big fan of a well designed physical catalog. Presentation is everything.

I especially like reading the REA catalog while sitting in my idling SUV as I smoke a cigar and consume a large platter of red meat.

Toss it in the recycle bin... Problem solved.

That's what I do when I'm done with it.

I hope you wait until you put it in drive to open your bottle of whiskey and call your bookie.

Perfect spot
 

Put it in the bathroom for when you're having your quiet time...

Geno

Rob,
That is the SUV where you removed the catalytic converter, right?

+1! These catalogs continue to amaze me, the costs that these guys must be paying! Having said that, it's still great reading with your so called "down time"

Costs that WHO are paying? :)

But in fairness, Rob is incredibly solicitous and fair and the quickest with shipping lots.

Good point Jeff, I just think he does a fantastic job. Maybe it's just me....

That and the muffler. I'm a proponent of noise pollution, too.

Bring it on, all 6 pounds of it!

Don't put too much thought into how many catalogs your consume. The paper is made from trees, which grow back in a few years.

Pay attention to the plastic that you consumer because it itsn't easily bio-degradable and plastic fills up the nation's garbage dumps. But consuming paper and paper products is about as enviro-friendly as it gets. Heck, if you put a catalog in your backyard, it would be completely broken down by the sun/rain within 3 months.

Just my .02,
Pine Tree Farmer.

impatient to receive my catalog !

I love it. I save it. I always find items in the print catalog that I miss online.

It is also an incredible resource for learning about a variety hobby-related stuff. The research and knowledge that goes into in phenomenal.
JimB

After a long, sleepless night our new REA baby arrived this morning on the front doorstep weighing in at a healthy 6 pounds. Both proud father and new arrival are doing well today.:D

Yeah, I always get a kick out of the tree comments. If you want to complain about waste, go after the fuel used to create things...any things.

It's also tricky to complain about the cost of creating these catalogs being passed on to the customers. Advertising is typically thought of as something that increases sales, and increased sales can mean lower costs to customers. But I'll never win that argument with this crowd, as everything's about the AH's screwing the world, right? :)

Observation
 

And that is pretty significant coming from someone named 'Forrest' :)

Christopher Cavalier
Consignment Director - Goldin Auctions
Founder - Game Used Universe

And there has to be some irony on a person commenting on a name that goes by the alias of Batman? :rolleyes:

There has to be something I can say based on your last name, but it eludes me.

That's pretty funny. You are quite a 'Joker' :p

My neighbors often ask me why I leave our Christmas decorations up until May. I simply point my just arrived REA catalog and shake my head in disappointment. Some people just don't get it. :cool:

There's a fair amount of Jet-A and Diesel fuel required to move these mammoth's around the U.S. And I'm darn glad as a COLLECTOR and 28 year UPS employee that they still print 'em..............

I doubt you'll hear any consignors complain about how excessive the write-ups are.

-Ryan

This has nothing to do with what any of you were talking about but I brought my REA catalog to work today to look through between patients and during lunch. (For those that don't know, I am a dentist and work in an office inhabited only by females) I got back from lunch today and all the girls in the office were giggling and laughing at me. I took one aside and asked what was so funny, she just smiled and told me to look on my desk. It hadn't dawned on me that the catalog had Bruce's Boston Garter uncut strip on the cover. Needless to say they had seen the catalog on my desk and all thought it was the strangest (homoerotic) thing they had ever seen, not quite what they were used to seeing in my office. :)

Nice Rhett :D

My thoughts on the catalog... It's officially too big to read on the can. I tried, it didn't work for me.

No catalog yet in western New York.

Still waiting on mine as well, patience is a virtue I suppose

Got mine in Texas yesterday. It made a big bang on our porch when it was dropped off. I almost took cover!!

Haven't gotten mine yet either here on Long Island. Consigned something for the very first time, so pretty excited. Rushed home from work the past two days to see it and it wasn't here. Argh!

nothing here in mn yet...hopefully tomorrow...although to be quite honest...these monstrosities are difficult to handle...no good for the bath tub...or toilet unless you have a custom set up?!

Hahaha. My wife thought the same thing. She asked "Why do you have a book with pictures of guys stripping down to knickers and garters? And why are you taking it into the bathroom , no less?"

Nothing in South Florida yet, maybe tomorrow

Got my in Northern California yesterday (Monday).

Sames

Wondering if one will hit me up here in Canada....I'm definitely a bidder this year ;)

I really like the recipe section this time. Dean’s Special Chicken Salad looks really good but not sure about the addition of celery and grapes…

This years also seems smaller than last years....

http://photos.imageevent.com/piojohn...pedia-Book.jpg

Not yet
 

Hopefully mine will arrive here in northern Virginia today.

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Frank

The Boston Garter interactive "pop-up book" pages, though technically and artistically impressive, were a little disturbing.

I'm in Massachusetts and received mine today. It is incredible as always. If I move it three or four times today I won't have to work out tonight!

+1!!!
Val

Got an email from my doorman that a very heavy package came from Benchmark Printing...I assume this is Rob's printer?

If so...cool! Thanks Rob!

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--------- visually disturbing quote of the year

Hope will receive mine this week.....

Just got my catalog today. Luckily I have been working out recently so I was able to carry it in from the mailbox. I live in a town adjacent to Watchung, NJ but since the catalog is shipped from Schenectady, I don't get it any sooner. Amazing auction and I am sure the prices realized will also be amazing.

Mine arrived moments ago. Love flipping through the REA. I did get a kick out of the fact the catalog is placed inside a UPS shipping bag prior to being placed inside a USPS flat rate box.

I do not get one you can send me yours and I promise not to complain.

Call REA and they will send you one free of charge, no questions asked.

The anticipation is killing me, hope mine's there when I get home from work!

Thanks Leon I will do just that. I love to look at these catalogs and dream with my eyes wide open.

Still waiting in PA. Can't wait to get it !

Merry Christmas in April...
 

The catalog is awesome as usual...there's even a gatefold of The Bruce's Boston Garter uncut sheet...just amazing!!!

No love yet
 

Anyone in VA receive theirs? Word must be getting around at how much it weighs. Must be a shortage of back braces and hand trucks for the postal workers.

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Frank

Arrived today in NYC
 

When I spoke to my wife before leaving the office she said there was a box too heavy for her to bring upstairs.

That's when I knew.

+1

Same here, Jim. I spot so many items in the catalog that escaped my eye when first viewing online...I love paging thru the "book".

Nothing yet here in NC. I feel bad for the driver who has to lug that thing up 3 flights to bring me mine.

It cracks me up that every year now we have a 100-200 post thread on who did or didn't get a catalog and if you got one, what day it arrived!

Isn't this type of thing that Twitter and Facebook are all about? (I don't know because I don't Tweet and I don't Face!)

PS: Mine arrived Wed @ 3:19 PM!

Just got my catalog by UPS.
I am in Canada

Well Fred, I'm twiddling and tweeting at the same time, but still no catalog.
I agree though that this is one of the most informative threads of the year.;)

Don't know why, but they sent me two? I'm not going to complain as I now have one for the home and one for the office.

Now if only I had a rare Canadian coin to sell ;)

Well, gotta go window shop.

r/
Frank

They used to send me two...nothing here yet...no love in mn?!

I would still like to know who/how Net54baseball is being tweeted? My wife follows us on Twitter. I didn't even know we had a tweet?

i read thru mine over the past two days, marked down what interested me, and tossed the book in the recycling bin in my house and put the bin near the door so I'd remember to empty the bin into the larger recyling bin outside in the morning.

Well, on the way out the door for school this morning, my 6 yr old saw the book and freaked out that I was going to toss it. He loves to keep the auction catalogs and thumb thru them. It was entertaining watching him lug the catalog up the stairs to put in his bedroom :D