Nice set!

wonder who is going to end up having this on their shelf?

Yeah, these are beautiful. Man, wish I could grab a set of these.

Holy mother of sauces Batman!!!!

Nice bottles, a collectors dream !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what’s happening to sets #1,2,4,5…straight up sale or later auction?

Testing the waters. Straight up auction.

Joe on 6/26/2006 at 9:01 am said:

So what’s happening to sets #1,2,4,5…straight up sale or later auction?

From the auction listing (at the bottom in questions)

“Q: Hey Nick, Just wondered but will the others be up for auction or can they be bought from somewhere else as a set price? Thanks Matt
Jun-25-06
A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”

Hope that helps

Joe on 6/26/2006 at 9:01 am said:

So what’s happening to sets #1,2,4,5…straight up sale or later auction?

There was also a question posed to Nick by someone.
Are offline offers open for negotiation. The answer was a resounding NO, there is no price for offline sales. I imagine 10grand would land you a bottle (charity wold be the reason for that ) but they are looking for fair honest auctioning of these it sounds like so everyone has an even fair shot. Good for them to not be able to be bought!!! of course maybe it was because I only offered a hundred bucks LOL.
Cudos to that, sucks for me I made an offer offline chuckle

Man,… why can’t a get a nice collectors piece that isn’t equivalent to my car payment?

Wow! These are incredible bottles! It’s amazing to see Blair and Cajohn’s signatures together. Is that a first? Two great companies coming together for a cause is really cool - you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!

Very cool! Both bottles look awesome!

– Ryan

“you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!”

I don’t think anyone would drink something called “Poke”.

DEFCON Creator on 6/26/2006 at 12:02 pm said:

“you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!”

I don’t think anyone would drink something called “Poke”.

Nice

So no way for Jungle Jim’s to per take in this event. I had a nice place on the firetruck for these 2 bottles. Way cool.

chrisk on 6/26/2006 at 10:08 am said:

From the auction listing (at the bottom in questions)

“Q: Hey Nick, Just wondered but will the others be up for auction or can they be bought from somewhere else as a set price? Thanks Matt
Jun-25-06
A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”

Hope that helps

oooo I’ve been quoted from ebay…lol. Does anyone want a #16 N-59 so I can put funds towards a set of these?

MattUK on 6/26/2006 at 12:57 pm said:

oooo I’ve been quoted from ebay…lol. Does anyone want a #16 N-59 so I can put funds towards a set of these?

sure I’ll take it off your hands Matt if you need the space.
Oh, were you asking $ for it

Those look intense, probably will never see someones palates though, i was just reading about, The second richest man in the world Warren Buffet, 40 billion + is donating 85% of his monies to the Gates foundation, thats roughly 37 billion bucks, too bad, he doesnt know jim haha. speaking of which, Mr Buffet is only leaving himself with pocketchange, *cough* 3-7 billion *cough* haha

3-7 billion, pffft, that’s nothing.

Adam2 on 6/26/2006 at 11:38 am said:

Wow! These are incredible bottles! It’s amazing to see Blair and Cajohn’s signatures together. Is that a first? Two great companies coming together for a cause is really cool - you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!

Yes- this would be a first. You also wouldn’t see Coke & Pepsi together because they are rivals, not friends doing the same thing

Bret on 6/26/2006 at 12:11 pm said:

So no way for Jungle Jim’s to per take in this event. I had a nice place on the firetruck for these 2 bottles. Way cool.

I’m sure that if Jungle cared to bid, Jungle could bid And I’d certainly be grateful

Jim Campbell StepUpForCharity.org on 6/26/2006 at 3:39 pm said:

I’m sure that if Jungle cared to bid, Jungle could bid And I’d certainly be grateful

Jim I need a place to bid not Just on Ebay. And I’am pretty sure are accounting dept has not thought about starting a paypal account. Peace Brother. Everthing good with you.

Bret on 6/26/2006 at 4:00 pm said:

Jim I need a place to bid not Just on Ebay. And I’am pretty sure are accounting dept has not thought about starting a paypal account. Peace Brother. Everthing good with you.

Why not? When the accounting department does it, the look on Jungles’ face would be priceless itself

All is well. 30,000 stairs Saturday, 48 hour shift yesterday & today. More stairs tomorrow. Ahhh… doesn’t get any better than that

DEFCON Creator on 6/26/2006 at 12:02 pm said:

“you probably wouldn’t see Coke and Pepsi make a product together for charity!”

I don’t think anyone would drink something called “Poke”.

I was more thinking “Copsi”, but “Poke” works also! Of course, Blajohn’s and Cajair’s don’t sound so great either

I also think BlaJohns wouldnt attract too much attention for either of them either
But the whole Poke thing works for me, could you imagine the advertising sponoffs of that name they could have fun with.

Adam2 on 6/26/2006 at 5:51 pm said:

I was more thinking “Copsi”, but “Poke” works also! Of course, Blajohn’s and Cajair’s don’t sound so great either

It’d be more fun with their last names

LaHard or Hardar

Just Saw The Bottles Together for the first time…..Very Nice….I am proud to help Jim on his great efforts for Charity. Glad to see it is already $600. FEEL ALIVE BLAIR

You both did a wonderful job on those bottles. Very nice to the combined effort.

Adam2 on 6/26/2006 at 5:51 pm said:

I was more thinking “Copsi”, but “Poke” works also! Of course, Blajohn’s and Cajair’s don’t sound so great either

Doh, what he said I was beat to the punch and he had already said it.
Damn those bottles price is climbing fast. I can’t wait to see the end result.

BLAIR on 6/26/2006 at 7:48 pm said:

Just Saw The Bottles Together for the first time…..Very Nice….I am proud to help Jim on his great efforts for Charity. Glad to see it is already $600. FEEL ALIVE BLAIR

Not half as proud as I am that you’re helping! Thanks to all for the efforts, large and small.

Can’t wait to see the others!!

Great idea guys! Jim, I’m rooting for you big time. And Blair and CaJohn, you are making all us chiliheads very proud!

BLAIR on 6/26/2006 at 7:48 pm said:

Just Saw The Bottles Together for the first time…..Very Nice….I am proud to help Jim on his great efforts for Charity. Glad to see it is already $600. FEEL ALIVE BLAIR

I too am Proud to help my old buddy Jim, I know of NO one more deserving of this effort for all of the great things he’s done not only for chileheads, but for all he has touched. A TRULY genuine great guy. I know Blair feels the same way. This is a first as far as I know, and I’m glad to see the response! Thanks to all who are bidding!!!

Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 6/26/2006 at 8:39 pm said:

Not half as proud as I am that you’re helping! Thanks to all for the efforts, large and small.

Can’t wait to see the others!!

I have been working so much and doing various other things and haven’t really kept up with the goings on here:( …Blair and CaJohn, excellent job!!! the bottles are great. the 2 of you deserve many kudos for them. Jim, good luck!!

Jim I have been wondering about the stair climb thing.
It states 66,000 in 24 hours. Do you get to go for 3 hours do a bunch then take a break, get a massage type of thing then resume the efforts after consuming nutrients. Or do you have to go non stop?

I have just been wondering, seems a little tough to have to go non stop. Btu with breaks and the sports massage you were talking about might make things a little better for you I hope.

Beautiful bottles guys. You never cease to amaze me!

pmac on 6/27/2006 at 11:19 am said:

Jim I have been wondering about the stair climb thing.
It states 66,000 in 24 hours. Do you get to go for 3 hours do a bunch then take a break, get a massage type of thing then resume the efforts after consuming nutrients. Or do you have to go non stop?

I have just been wondering, seems a little tough to have to go non stop. Btu with breaks and the sports massage you were talking about might make things a little better for you I hope.

I’m not sure how much time Jim will be able to take off - According to my calculations he must climb 2,750 per hour or 45.833 stairs per minute for 24 hours straight to reach 66,000 stairs in 24 hours.

Yeah its alot, however he did state that he did 30,000 yesterday (or the day before) and i dont think he was at the gym for 10 hours so i am guessing his pace is allot faster than that. However it will be interesting to see what he has to say on that. I have been wondering that (because of the specs you mention especially) for a while now.

pmac on 6/27/2006 at 11:57 am said:

Yeah its alot, however he did state that he did 30,000 yesterday (or the day before) and i dont think he was at the gym for 10 hours so i am guessing his pace is allot faster than that. However it will be interesting to see what he has to say on that. I have been wondering that (because of the specs you mention especially) for a while now.

My understanding from the Guiness folks (Book, not beer) is that it’s simply “here’s 24 hours, how many can you do?” As such, yes- I do indeed intend to take breaks! I figure I’ve room for 4 hours of breaks and 20 hours on the machine itself. The ‘record pace’, doing the math the same as you did (just under 1/sec), is what I’m using for a ‘resting pace’. Training pace on speed days (2 hours or less like this morning ’cause I have 2 pallets of hot sauce to unload) is over 2/sec. Endurance days are at 1.75/sec (5 hours or more). If anyone is *really* interested, I’ve posted the stats on the StepUp site under the journal entries. The massage guy already has said he’d be happy to help out day of & trust me- I’ll need him

Great info Jim - God Bless and Good Luck!!

Thanks Jim that is exactly what I wanted to know.
See that pair of bottles on eBay what its up to now
Looks like a nice charitable contribution there. I hope they hit a grand.

Nick Lindauer on 6/26/2006 at 10:45 am said:

And none of these are going to be offered off eBay

So #3 set is on E-Bay, the other 4 sets are going to be auctioned, do we know when and where yet, so we don’t miss out on a chance to bid????

Cheffy on 6/27/2006 at 3:05 pm said:

So #3 set is on E-Bay, the other 4 sets are going to be auctioned, do we know when and where yet, so we don’t miss out on a chance to bid????

chrisk on 6/26/2006 at 10:08 am said:

From the auction listing (at the bottom in questions)

“Q: Hey Nick, Just wondered but will the others be up for auction or can they be bought from somewhere else as a set price? Thanks Matt
Jun-25-06
A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”

Hope that helps

“A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”

Hope that helps

Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 6/27/2006 at 12:17 pm said:

My understanding from the Guiness folks (Book, not beer) is that it’s simply “here’s 24 hours, how many can you do?” As such, yes- I do indeed intend to take breaks! I figure I’ve room for 4 hours of breaks and 20 hours on the machine itself. The ‘record pace’, doing the math the same as you did (just under 1/sec), is what I’m using for a ‘resting pace’. Training pace on speed days (2 hours or less like this morning ’cause I have 2 pallets of hot sauce to unload) is over 2/sec. Endurance days are at 1.75/sec (5 hours or more). If anyone is *really* interested, I’ve posted the stats on the StepUp site under the journal entries. The massage guy already has said he’d be happy to help out day of & trust me- I’ll need him

Glad everything is going well there jim!!!!! Can’t wait to hold the bottles from blair and john in my hands. They are way cool!!!!!!!

Adam2 on 6/26/2006 at 5:51 pm said:

I was more thinking “Copsi”, but “Poke” works also! Of course, Blajohn’s and Cajair’s don’t sound so great either

what about pepsoke?

pmac on 6/27/2006 at 11:19 am said:

Jim I have been wondering about the stair climb thing.
It states 66,000 in 24 hours. Do you get to go for 3 hours do a bunch then take a break, get a massage type of thing then resume the efforts after consuming nutrients. Or do you have to go non stop?

I have just been wondering, seems a little tough to have to go non stop. Btu with breaks and the sports massage you were talking about might make things a little better for you I hope.

I think its just non stop!

Hey everyone. I’m trying to increase my funds so that I can place a healthy bid on one of these sets. If anyone is interested in either

N-59 #16
or
CaJohn’s Frostbite 4 Test bottle #7/12

then please shoot me an email (if you haven’t got it - Nick has it or I presume chrisk too and several others) and we can sort something out. If not I may put on ebay but I’m not too sure yet

eBay Listing Removed (=LB &12362 JM12137469)

Dear Paul MacDonald (NO EMAIL),

Please be aware that the following auction-style listing:

Item Number - 160001610099
Item Title - Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserve Hot Sauces

pmac on 6/29/2006 at 2:22 pm said:

eBay Listing Removed (=LB &12362 JM12137469)

Dear Paul MacDonald (NO EMAIL),

Please be aware that the following auction-style listing:

Item Number - 160001610099
Item Title - Blair & CaJohn’s Step Up For Charity Reserve Hot Sauces

What happened there?

Jezza on 6/29/2006 at 3:08 pm said:

What happened there?

I dunno. Got an email message like everyone else saying the auction has been pulled. *THAT* bites!!!!

This Listing Is Unavailable

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If the listing was removed by eBay, consider it canceled. Note: Listings that have ended more than 90 days ago will no longer appear on eBay.

Try searching for another item now.

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Wow I wonder what happened

It was regarding the verbage for sur, once it is yanked you must relist it. But be very cautios on the relist because someone neds to report you regarding these violations.

err… They get reports of the violation from a viewer is what I meant.
Otherwise they would never be able to track them.

Someone care to explain to me what the violation was? Was it the “Charity” part they didn’t understand?

Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 6/29/2006 at 3:48 pm said:

Someone care to explain to me what the violation was? Was it the “Charity” part they didn’t understand?

Yeah, seems odd that there would be a problem with the charity aspect of the auction, but there are hundreds of Blairs and CaJohns items sold on Ebay all the time and they dont get pulled, so it does seem to point in that direction… very odd indeed

I had no doubt you’d take care of it sir. Sorry that you *have* to- no good deed goes unpunished as they say. Just found it hard to believe that with all the other stuff that gets auctioned there, they’d have a problem.

Thanks again for all your work Nick!

Nick Lindauer on 6/29/2006 at 4:17 pm said:

Jim - Its because your charity is not recognized by eBay. I’ll take care of it and re-list per their regs and make it happen again.

Nick, do not put “Charity” in the “title” when you list this again… When I ran the auction for Jim, I only mentioned the word “donated” within my description, but not the title. I ran into the same problem before I listed.

Lame-o indeed! I can think of a few other titles I hope the bidding goes even higher to spite whoever it was.

That is quite a LAME deal… I am sure it will all work out for the best Jim…Guess someone was mad that they weren’t winning, to complain about a great cause that the bottles were for….

So basically, it means that the auction needs to be ran as a “regular” auction in order to dance around the red tape. It sucks, but it’s the only way to get around the bs.

Why should ebay care what you do with the money?

Can’t for the life of me see what’s different, but THANK YOU Nick, for re-doing it.

Hey Lame-o, whoever you are, please feel free to contact me for a discussion

Nate#2 on 6/29/2006 at 6:57 pm said:

Why should ebay care what you do with the money?

Not to mention all the extra money they get as the auction $ goes higher

Wow…seems I missed all the fun today. Glad its back up. I’ll refrain from posting any profanities, but to anyone that had even the slightest problem with the auction, you can go #@!% yourself and have a nice day

Nick Lindauer on 6/29/2006 at 6:18 pm said:

Back in Action.

New auction here, this will run over the weekend and end on Wednesday.

Step Up for Charity Reserve Auction

Well it will actually it will end next thursday not wednesday. But no big deal, just gives it longer for exposure.
I wouldnt get 100% carried away, however, it could have been anyone not just a blogger, but rather someone doing a regular search on charity, and sees something they don’t recognise and dont understand this hot sauce thing. So probably reported it out of precaution that no one was pulling a fast one. That is more likely what happened, I can not believe one of us here would do something like that. Someone might be upset it is so expensive, however, people here have come to expect it from some of the collectibles in this hobby.

Just my 2 cents worth.
If anyone feels like giving change feel free LOL.

..

Now on with the conspiracies They are fun to watch!

Ryan@angrypepper on 6/29/2006 at 8:24 pm said:

Wow…seems I missed all the fun today. Glad its back up. I’ll refrain from posting any profanities, but to anyone that had even the slightest problem with the auction, you can go #@!% yourself and have a nice day

I will second this comment…………..AMEN to that………….

Ryan@angrypepper on 6/29/2006 at 8:24 pm said:

Wow…seems I missed all the fun today. Glad its back up. I’ll refrain from posting any profanities, but to anyone that had even the slightest problem with the auction, you can go #@!% yourself and have a nice day

Hey Ryan, I think you spelled #@!% wrong- did you use spell check?

pmac on 6/29/2006 at 8:25 pm said:

Well it will actually it will end next thursday not wednesday. But no big deal, just gives it longer for exposure.
I wouldnt get 100% carried away, however, it could have been anyone not just a blogger, but rather someone doing a regular search on charity, and sees something they don’t recognise and dont understand this hot sauce thing. So probably reported it out of precaution that no one was pulling a fast one. That is more likely what happened, I can not believe one of us here would do something like that. Someone might be upset it is so expensive, however, people here have come to expect it from some of the collectibles in this hobby.

Just my 2 cents worth.
If anyone feels like giving change feel free LOL.

..

Yeah you could be right, but all they had to do is check into what was going on with this auction and not go to ebay right away and complain

And didn’t the auction somewhat explain what the charity was all about, like the posting that is up now does ?????

Hey pmac there is your change (LOL)………..

There are some very anal people with a lot of distruse and jealousy, that maybe there charity efforts in a month or year do not see what this one bottle would do in a week.
Hey, I’m not saying,, I’m just sayin’… one never knows what happened. eBay sure would not reveal it i am pretty sure of that. Damn they locked my paypal once, and it took me a month to unlock it, and NEVER did i get a reason from them.

MrFreeze on 6/29/2006 at 8:35 pm said:

Hey pmac there is your change (LOL)………..

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pmac on 6/29/2006 at 8:35 pm said:

There are some very anal people with a lot of distruse and jealousy, that maybe there charity efforts in a month or year do not see what this one bottle would do in a week.
Hey, I’m not saying,, I’m just sayin’… one never knows what happened. eBay sure would not reveal it i am pretty sure of that. Damn they locked my paypal once, and it took me a month to unlock it, and NEVER did i get a reason from them.

Yeah I know there are a lot of people out there like that, not disagreeing(sp?) with you. I am just giving you a little guff………..And as for ebay, they are way to big to give us little guys any reason for anything they do…

Vic on 6/29/2006 at 8:31 pm said:

Hey Ryan, I think you spelled #@!% wrong- did you use spell check?

does he ever Vic?

Vic on 6/29/2006 at 8:31 pm said:

Hey Ryan, I think you spelled #@!% wrong- did you use spell check?

Sorry Vic, I went and looked it up in Webster’s Dictionary and it is supposed to be spelled “&*!@” rather than “#@!%”…so sorry…must have been the ebonics

Hey Hey Ryans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan@angrypepper on 6/29/2006 at 9:30 pm said:

Sorry Vic, I went and looked it up in Webster’s Dictionary and it is supposed to be spelled “&*!@” rather than “#@!%”…so sorry…must have been the ebonics

Yo G I’m down

Ryan@angrypepper on 6/29/2006 at 8:24 pm said:

Wow…seems I missed all the fun today. Glad its back up. I’ll refrain from posting any profanities, but to anyone that had even the slightest problem with the auction, you can go #@!% yourself and have a nice day

Here Here I 2nd that ryan

[…] Brought to you by the folks over at the Hot Sauce Blog, please check out the Step Up for Charity Reserves listing that Nick posted a few days ago. Having just finished our own charity project not too long ago, we realize how important it is for the chilehead community to lend their support to charitable causes. […]

chrisk on 6/26/2006 at 10:08 am said:

From the auction listing (at the bottom in questions)

“Q: Hey Nick, Just wondered but will the others be up for auction or can they be bought from somewhere else as a set price? Thanks Matt
Jun-25-06
A: The other sets will also be available later this month & in July. All 5 auctions will be finished before Jim attempts his world record stair climb”

Hope that helps

Think anyone ll sell them later?

Bye the way , I also post on the hot zone online too. So you can chat with me there too.

how do you do those little emotion signs?

nat on 7/1/2006 at 8:49 am said:

how do you do those little emotion signs?

Right above you name in the “Leave a Comment” you will see a “Smilies” link. Just click it and it will show you all the smilies you can use.

huvason on 7/1/2006 at 8:51 am said:

Right above you name in the “Leave a Comment” you will see a “Smilies” link. Just click it and it will show you all the smilies you can use.

Goto Smilies (not sure if link will post right away)

And the winner is $1025.00 damn d00d!

Nick Lindauer on 7/6/2006 at 6:17 pm said:

Holy moly - $1,025 final price! (jumped right in the final 3 seconds from $770)

Nick I didn’t know you were allowed to buy your own stuff, now thats a true collector who gets caught up in th action LOL!!!

j/k that is a joke for all those would be twisters of words

That last big jump took me off guard as well! Kinda figured it would be more like ‘last guy standing’ rather than the usual sniping Thank you, thank you whoever you were! So… which set is next, Nick??

Nick Lindauer on 7/6/2006 at 6:42 pm said:

It’s already up there…

Dang- you’re fast

#1/5 up on eBay…. over $1000 already. Very Sweet…. man wish I could get this!

yup!

$1550 damn d00ds…There is nno glory on upping esach other it private.