sam dupont
Well-Known Member
What do people think of them? Just picked up two items from a Hi_Bid auction sale. I got lucky, I won both with my Max Bid, and that makes me wonder. With online auctions, we don't see the people we are bidding against, even if it's the auctioneer who gets to see our Max Bids. I've gone to one auctioneer's sales for decades. He, like many of his competitors, might pluck bids from thin air when somebody telegraphed how much they wanted an item. An auction buddy and I were laughing about one of his tricks when he did it as if on cue. "5-7.50, 5-7.50, SOLD! for $7.50". Another auctioneer asked if I saw how he ran up a new guy to $150 on a box of Star Wars toys. Did you see what I did? It was a box I wanted too, so I said: yeah. Then I thought: I saw the guy had it at $50, but he had crazy eyes too. Those tricks for a few dollars cost us all money because I sometimes wanted to pay more but couldn't trust him, so it sold cheaper, costing the seller too. So if an auctioneer who would shill bid at his live actions has gone to online auctions and can see everybody's max bid, will he also shill bid at his online auctions?
I always defended the right of the auctioneer to bid against me, it's a free country, but at a live auction he might be the one stuck with the high bid if he gets cute.
Going into the future, I won't enter a Max Bid.
I always defended the right of the auctioneer to bid against me, it's a free country, but at a live auction he might be the one stuck with the high bid if he gets cute.
Going into the future, I won't enter a Max Bid.
