AUCTION: 24k gold SPY005 "goldfinger"

This gold plated SPY005 is now up for auction right here on CPF. The proceeds are all going to CPF (see note below). If you want to place a bid please post to this thread the amount of US$ that you want to bid. The opening bid starts at $1.00 (one dollar). Bidding stops at 9:00 PM Eastern time Friday.



This is a fully functioning 005 with STFu and a Seoul. It's body came from the first production run of 005's. The gold plating that was done by modamag is 24k. That is very pretty but it scratches very easily, even if handled.

This auction will end on Friday (10-26-2007) evening at 9:00PM eastern time. The time of the post is the deciding factor. If you post after 9:00 PM on Friday, your bid will not be valid. The CPF clock is what matters for this auction. If the two top bidders bid the same amount, the first to post wins. Any other disputes will be decided by yours truly. Payment can be sent as a check or you can use PayPal.

As you know, I wanted Sasha to have this gold SPY however, I am respecting the results of the CPF vote and I know this light is not the most practical. If this auction goes high enough, I may elect to swap out some of the proceeds from this auction for one of the S&D SPYs I have saved so Sasha can have one. The S&D light's value is set at $325. If I choose to do this it will be swapped out at even money. If Sasha decides she wants to sell the S&D that is her prerogative. I will not mind. To say this another way; Sasha will end up with all the money from this auction or she will end up with that amount minus $325 plus one S&D 005.

Start your bidding! :tinfoil:



Cheers
Dave

This 005's body and bat cap is actually made from 7075-T6 aluminum. That is how it came to be gold too. It originally went in for anodizing with the other bodies that were all 6061-T6. Oops, that does not work to well, came back not very smooth. So I put it aside for another day. Then when modamag offered to turn stuff into gold I said, "what better, a 7075 gold spy!" Only one on the planet!

See this thread for results of the vote.

10 bucks! Did I win yet??? OK, I will wait to bid but I will be back!!!!!! :devil:

OK, as I am a huge SPY "fan", (see avatar), Bid

$200 to start !!

jeffb

$222


Greetings:wave:

$225

:kiss:

Let's get this party started. :nana:

$500

Boys, BOYS!!!!! Easy now since we have until Friday! :shakehead ROOKIES! :welcome: Just remember who saw "Goldfinger" and posted first!


:devil:
Ken

Lordy but that was a LARGE jump in auction price!!! I will have to see if my house can be re-mortgaged to go near this one!


Karl

kenster said:

Boys, BOYS!!!!! Easy now since we have until Friday! :shakehead ROOKIES!

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Who you callin' Rookie, buddy?

Just for that, I'm gonna 5-up the previous sucker who bid $500...

:duck: :devil: $505. :devil: :duck:

jch79 said:

Who you callin' Rookie, buddy?

Just for that, I'm gonna 5-up the previous sucker who bid $500...

:duck: :devil: $505. :devil: :duck:

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$506

And :nana: Well, it was making me feel motion sick! :sick2:

Ken

$510... like this is going to stick...

Whoa!
That was fast.

$525

And only 146 hours to go..

I hesitate (though obviously didn't manage to avoid) posting a non-bid. But simply had to mention that if there were every a reason to use the word "bling" this is it.

BLING.

Awesome offering, Dave! :thumbsup:

what the deviled eggs is stfu?

Google it.

I did...twice, didn't appear to have any correlation with the spy though

Make sure you google CPF only or you will get words that are banned on CPF:devil:

dat2zip said:

Google it.

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BTW, are the head and knob gold-plated also?

Can't keep my eyes off of that Gold Finger flashlight!:twothumbsOh yeah, Bid: $550

The head is gold plated but the lens ring is chrome and the knob is SS304.