Coachworks, Ft Valley GA. Auction

[gregory O]

yea the Luce family business types are a thing of the past. Bankruptcy is
acceptable business now a day. I bet Wanderlodge/ccw was structured for a exit.
I was way surprised that ccw bought it in the first place. I kind of thought
they wanted the facilities to do the conversions they do in Riverside. and for
federal mandate retrofits and upcomming epa rules. I see the Riverside
facility always busy and they recently re filled their lot with over what must
be 1,000 city and transit bus units. the good part about their continued health
is their parking lot is full from 9-5.

It is just ashame that auctioneers didnt sell larger lots like you described
with some one buying the entire cage area for 40G's. less stuff would be parted
out and only big players would be bidding. Would have been good for someone like
Birtles ,Dupree or Parliment to land a large lot and become a source of
continued distribution. I guess the fat lady sang.
Greg of Tim&Greg
94ptca






--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "bumpersbird" wrote:
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> Sorry Greg,
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> We didn't have that great an impact on the auction, though it's nice to know
you think that highly of us back East. Coach owners were in the minority of
bidders. I don't see how any of the BS that flys around on these sites would
influence anybody to spend any money. No more than a visit to your web site
would influence me to change my lifestyle. One guy that was there bought all the
motors, a truck dealer or something. Scrap dealers were the big winners,along
with Ceribus buying back stuff for pennies on the dollar, several outfits that
work on Birds as well were in attendance, the single largest group I could
identify were the EX-Employees they bought lots of tools and shop equipment.
Also your incorrect in your assumption of 10 cents on retail. it was more like
10 cents on wholesale. USED WHOLESALE! It was a slaughter for the bank make no
mistake this was an absolute auction, no minimums or reserves if you bid a $1
and none else upped the price for that lot number you got it for a buck, highest
dollar won. The auctionieers knew nothing about this buisness they just pushed
stuff into piles and assigned a lot number you bid on the lot. I missed out on a
lot at the very end that had over 20 Allision Control Pads in it along with some
other garbage it sold for $125.00 I believe youd be getting down to tenths of a
penny on the dollar on that one. Plain and simple it was a court order public
auction to liquidat the assets of a company that screwed up. I do feel as though
in your post your somehow blaming the guys who are coach owners that went as
being somehow responsible for the demise of whatever it is were guilty of.
Coachworks was the entity that went bankrupt. Can you say CCW and Friends?????
What does it matter anyways? No one will ever do what The Luce family and the
people of Bluebird Wanderlodge did again in their haydays, 2 finished coaches a
week?????!!!!!???? I won't live to see that again. Don't blame me. I went there
and tried to do what I could. Somebody had more money than I was willing to
spend to save what I couldn't. I will reitterate it was an auction not a sale.
Don't blame the guys that went to save what couldn't be saved!
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> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Ernie Ekberg wrote:
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> > I received that flyer, also. Ended up in the recycle bin.
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> > Ernie Ekberg
> > 83PT40
> > Wanderlodge
> > Weatherford, Tx 817-475-3991
> > http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/erni...gandrepair
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> > --- On Wed, 10/21/09, Pete Masterson wrote:
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> > From: Pete Masterson
> > Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Coachworks, Ft Valley GA. Auction
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 2:49 PM
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> > I saw ads for the auction in FMCA magazine and possibly one other RV-related
magazine. I received a flyer directly from the auction house (I presume because
I was a member of the BB Chapter of FMCA). The auction house probably also
contacted all other potential bidders they might have identified. This is what
auction houses do -- their job and their commissions depend on getting the
highest (best) prices for the offered materials as can be arranged. They will
advertise and promote the auction to as many people as is possible.
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> > The creditors can (and probably did) set opening bid prices and may have had
reserve prices (minimum acceptable bid) on many of the items. I doubt that talk
on WOG or anywhere else had any impact on the number or quality of bidders at
the auction.
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> > Pete Masterson
> > (former) '95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
> > El Sobrante CA
> > aeonix1@mac. com
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> > On Oct 21, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Don Bradner wrote:
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> > That is simply ridiculous. Do you actually think Cerberus and Parliament
were there bidding (the two heavy bidders on the IP) because of talk on WOG?
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> > Do you actually think the buyer of the property (who is going to build tour
busses) was there bidding on the heavy equipment because of talk on WOG?
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> > Sheesh!
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> > On 10/21/2009 at 3:23 PM gregory O wrote:
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> > It is just a shame that so many people made it to the auction. It sounds
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> > like wog shot the bus in the foot by making the auction a big successful
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> > event for the bank.
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