Ice Cove Auctions

A LONG TIME AGO ...

DeathViper and Twinkie were Elder Tamers and were very happy with what we were doing. Then one day, after killing MILLIONS of Vorpal Bunnies getting tons of loot, we at that time decided we would like to share our loot with others.

We attended the only Auction on the Shard at that time in which we went to several times and noticed this looked like a great place to share our loot with others. We were impressed with the Auction and how it was run, amazed actually that this was available throughout UO. We put together packages of our best loot and then decided to try to submit our things in the Auction so we could gain that ever sought after UO Gold. We discovered how hard it was to get things entered into an Auction because of the vast amount of people utilizing the Auction to sell their goods.

It was at that time that we discovered we had more than enough loot to attempt to open our own Auction House. We didn't want to compete with the current Auction so we felt that we would hold our Auction in Malas since we already had a 18x18 in there on Ice. We changed our 18x18 into an Auction House in which we then proceeded to have our first Auction filled with all of our own items. After several lean weeks of people not finding us we discovered that we were meeting many friends and had loyal customers but they needed more than what we alone had to offer. We then opened up our auction to other sellers to offer a wide selection of items for our customers.

A couple weeks later, one of loyal customers, brought us a 120 BlackSmith Powerscroll and asked us at this time if we could sell that and get enough money for a new house. After seeing how this scroll had been selling for real life money, we decided to attempt to sell this, which was the first one to be Auctioned on this shard for gold. We listed the scroll on our regular Tradespot location and also sent out messages as we do weekly via icq to all our regulars and when it came time for the Auction to begin, we were amazed to find the Auction House FULL. Twinkie Auctioned the Scroll off for a final bid of 34 Million UO Gold. Needless to say the owner was able to buy that house she had sought with even a little bit of pocket change left over :) We along with the owner of the scroll were SHOCKED and it was at that time that we saw how much fun the Auction business could be to sellers, buyers and also to spectators alike and we were HOOKED from that moment on. Our 7 time GM White Wyrms have not been out of the stables since.

DV's Broken Ethereal Llama

DV was so happy about the Ethy Llama that he just bought, he couldn't wait to try it out... so he keeps on clicking on the llama in his backpack and nothing happens. "Man, this ethy's broken... it doesn't work!" Only later, did he realized that it was a just a llama statuette.