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Busey in Last Name - Cover Story Dies |
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by Steven Sester
Email: sdsester (nospam) prairienet.org (unverified!)
Phone: 217/353-5173 |
26 Jul 2002
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In response to theft of public property, the only daily newspaper in this region has backed off with last name Busey mentioned in cover story text. |
My quasi-stepson, Michael Stevens, still wants to know what he should have bid on the solid walnut table he spotted at the recent auction of public owned antiques at a local shopping mall here in Urbana. He would still like to know what the person who ended up with it paid.
Contrary to a cover story run by the News-Gazette, the only paper with never an alternative view, here in Champaign Urbana, auction officials Debra Busey and Denny Inman followed no auction rules any of us who know eBay have ever encountered. Yet Busey sites eBay as a model. Sure on eBay you can post a maximum bid but your current bid still gets posted to the auction item as the current dollar amount. Not one auction item in this recent had a price, only the the number corresponding to the bidder. Also unlike eBay, all was on pieces of paper and at the discretion of the unauthorized auction folks to process.
My stepson saved quite awhile to even dare bid on the walnut map/chart table he bid on. He will never know whether he was in the ballpark or not since processing of bids were arbitrary at best.
Busey suggests inventoring and appraising all things to complicated? Yet she assures the most valuable of pieces have been saved for the new courthouse. Sorry, but to me that suggests nothing short of corruption, especially and agreeing with Diane Marlin there were some really nice pieces of hardwood stuff with fuse glass fronts and so forth.
This is a bipartisan issue at this point but still stings me as a taxpayer. I really want to see an inventory list and an accounting of what was paid. Debra Busey did one or she would not have known what was precious or not.
For the record Debra? My stepson bid $2,000 for that walnut table. What did it bring at the weirdest of auctions.
- Steven Sester |
