Hello Gnarly, welcome to the Yard. As a relative newbie myself (less than a year) here's my explanation of how a Ganzaa works. Ganzaa's are conducted by Jerry Busse, proprietor of Busse Combat Knives. They are announced over on the Busse Combat Knives forum on Blade Forums. He will give the information on what will be available and for what price. Quantities are limited and will vary for each item. Jerry will announce that the Ganzaa will begin at around a certain time, the ones I have seen have been on a Sunday evening between 9:00-10:00 pm eastern time, but not until he posts a Go Go Go on one of the five forums affiliated with Busse Combat Knives. As soon as the Go signal is given You must send an email with your desired order to both Jerry's personal email and his company email. Orders are then filled in order of first come first served with the time stamp on the email serving as the time of order. Some Items with limited numbers of availability will sell out within minutes or less. The Scrap Yard wiener dog is an example of this, which is a highly sought after knife that so far has been only available at a Ganzaa, and maybe a few at one of the shows. I have left out some details I'm sure. A search of Ganzaa over on BF should bring up more info. I have participated in 2 of them and was able to fill my order, but I think I was lucky.