Good Saturday Afternnon!

I'll answer backwards! I did have only the one article for "Musings" and that was the announcement of the Founder's Collection. BUT, I am a salesman, first and it does not hurt to remind Collectors of our product offerings!

Re the Founder's Collection, I have to admit I am disappointed by the rather timid response. Each of you has the opportunity of owning a piece of Harbour Lights History! The Replicas are avaialbe at their last issue retail price and shipping is FREE! You can only purchase through an authorized Dealer NO PHONE orders!

When the first announcement came out there was a LOUD CRY that we were catering to "deep pockets"; when I was with Collectors in public I would receive the same response. NOW the minimum is three Replicas as a minimum! I understood the past criticism and developed a program that made the Founder's Collection accessible to all Collectors!

Remember the is Bill's Collection; I hope that you each understand my responsibility - I am to sell the Collection in a manner that is respectful of the history and tradition it represents. I trust you understand this offering is directed to EVERY Collector.

Dealers information packets will leave in the next three business days - I also made Collectors aware of the offering BEFORE Dealers - I hope that answers the critisism you are "always the last to know"!

You can always reach me at 800 365 1219

AJC

I am very interested in this program. My biggest question is "Will this be a first come, first served" or will all have a chance at the same pieces? Will there be a drawing to see who is the winner if more then one person wants the same piece? If it is first come, first served, those of us that are on the far corners of Maine not have a chance because of the snail speed post office?

Silence means approval.

Allot of this so far is old news.
We heard about the Founders collection last year.
We also heard that some of the collector's ideas were going to be used to sell the founders collection, which I assumed would be the three-limit thing that we discussed last year. It is also my guess that you will use the idea that a buyer will have to be a society member and will have to buy one from each of three different lists. A L.E. list of older ones, a L.E. list of newer ones and one of glows.

I am already figuring out how many I am going to buy and where to come up with the money.

Hummmmm... this is going to get very very interesting!

All most as much fun as trying to buy Van Halen tickets for the reunion tour this year....

If I understand this correctly, single digit Nos. 2-10 are available for sell from Bill's personal collection, so does that mean there will be nine (9) Cape Hatteras HL102s available for sale at retail?

This is too good to be true. I am trying to take this all in, and be patient, but I'm not buying it folks. Some where there is a catch. I guess we need to wait until the dealers have the "fine print" so us collectors know how this is going to work....

This is going to be like trying to stand in line to buy a Cabbage Patch doll from Kmart back in 1984 (or whatever year those dolls first came out).

Someone out there is going to be very very HAPPY for Christmas!!

There is not a catch - there are two tiers. You may purchase one from tier one (HL 118 - 180) and two from tier two (181 and up). 101 - 117 are longgggggggg gone, before the sale of the company. You may purchase multiple sets of 3, in the same quantities (1 from tier one and 2 from tier two). Orders will be faxed in by your dealer, and this will be a first come sale I believe. However, there will be a No Earlier Than date for orders - I have suggested to Tony that any dealer that tries to slip one in ahead of this date, they should simply shred the order without even looking at it. This is being done to give everyone a fair shot at getting orders in. I think this is a very good approach, and gives all the dealers the opportunity to receive the mailing and get the word out to their collectors and collect order forms to fax in on the appropriate date.

Dave

No glows?

Don't think the final decision has been made yet. I would imagine Tony will be along in the next day or so to correct any boo-boo's on my part and to add missing information.

Thanks for a little more insight on this opportunity Dave....

It would be nice to get some more "official" information from Tony.

Good Monday Morning!

There are four Options to this offering@
Option #1: Allows Collectors to purchase a minimum of three replicas
Option #2:Allows the Collector to purchase (30)
Option #3: Allowsthe Collector to purchase (60)
Option #4 Allows the Collector to purchse an entire Low Edition # Set.

All FAXES will be stamped and yes we will fill orders on a first com first served basis.

I expect that the majorityof sales will come from Option #1; we are asking collectors selecting Option #12 to list (15) choise to receive (3) simply because of the large number of Collector I expect will particpate ib\n this offering.

There is a change in Tiers: Tier #1HL 103-160 Tier #2 HL 161-354 Dealers will have a complete list of available Replicas. Let me point out that from HL-107-HL 117 there are no available
Replicas. These were Replicas that Younger and Associates donate various causes!

You need to go to a Dealer to read the entire Offering!

AJC

A lot of collectors no longer have local dealers. I guess we will have to rely on our long distance dealers to read us the list.

Good Monday Afternoon!

If you do not have a local dealer yet want a copy of availability by Tier, write:
tconstantino@harbourlights.com

That said - you must order through a Dealer!
I trust everyone understands why!

AJC

Thank you, Tony. That will be very helpful. No problem buying from a dealer - mine even ships free!

It must be SNOW! Yup, snow it is here in the Northeast.... and Super Wacko status too boot!