auction giveaway

[mulitweed]

went to an auction yesterday bought a few things , they didnt start anything combines tractors trucks , mowers , pickups, stuff was rough , estate sale , stuff brings more when it runs , i bought a trailer load of junk lol, boxcar magnum 7120 showed 11.390 hours , looked used and abused was the high seller at 24 k

 

[mulitweed]

and a lot of things will stay there family member bidding stuff up and people caught on , he tryed selling me item he outbid me on , no thanks

 

[JasperFrank]

Widow of my Dad, forced an auction of all the equipment used on the farm. We needed most of that equipment just to do routine maintenance. So, yes, I was there as a bidder. Family members might be at an estate auction for this very reason, and not just to bid up prices.

 

[mulitweed]

I understand but I overheard him and auctioneer talking and he was just running up the bids , it is what it is

 

[newbury]

It takes two to "run up" prices.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I used to go to a lot of auctions around here. There was one auction company that would bid up stuff themselves. Sometimes it was the auctioneer himself and sometimes it would be his guys that were working the crowd just randomly yelling. It burned me up, I never once bid on an item that they had done that on. Some people did not notice and got burned - outbidding themselves.

 

[mulitweed]

yep its bs! and too top it off there was a lunch wagon there would have been $21 for a meal so i skipped that , hardly any live auctions anymore so was a good waste of my day

 

[JasperFrank]

Having gone and participated in many auctions, I began to notice that the bidders in most local live auctions, all know each other. They are sort of a club, of re-sellers and don't want any interlopers. Being an interloper, I could quickly, see I was being singled out. So the strategy became, I would just very early on, up the bid to my considered limit and bid no more. Which would cause some grumbling to The Club, and the auctioneer. And nearly always, someone in the club would enter a slightly higher bid. Okay.. by me. I addressed the crowd on our auction crowd that I was an administrator of the estate. And would be bidding, which I told earlier, to both the Auctioneer and the Window's Lawyer, who was also at the auction as a bidder. Both said this was okay to do.
The Strangest Auction was in Pennsylvania. We rented and filled a rather large U-Haul. I don't remember the town or the auctioneer company. We organized everything in to 5 lots, of related items. We must not have read the fine print of how this auction worked. In my mind, if you bid on a lot, the buyer then own's the lot. No matter how high or low the winning bid is. At this auction the bids were all very low. Okay, thats just what happens, but at least it is off our hands. No. Surprise! The winners just picked out what they wanted and left anything they didn't. Which according to the Auction Company was still our responsibility to remove off the auction site. I argued that the buyer bought the entire lot, and couldn't sign off what they didn't want. Its their property, now, for the entire lot, and I would be stealing to retake it. We spend alot of time testing and cleaning and packing. This fell on deaf ears. So read the auction rules and contract very closely. It might say something like, the seller is still responible for left over lots.

 

[workinonit]

So what'd they give away?

 

[mulitweed]

was some chevy tandems , $500-1000, if they would have had them running could have got more most of the tillage stuff was dirt cheap ,in the shop huge pallet racks full of stuff , sold in sections , I would assume some of the equipment would run , i guess they didnt want to screw around putting in batteries and just dumped everything

 

[mulitweed]

there was a zero maintenance program on this farm , and anything that could be bent broken or twisted was , and when done with it pushed in the trees

 

[Robin Veerman]

i bought a trailer load of junk lol, boxcar magnum 7120 showed 11.390 hours , looked used and abused was the high seller at 24 k

Takes two to tango....but sounds like you got a smokin deal.

 

[mulitweed]

sometimes i sell junk and buy more lol

 

[FERLING]

yep its bs! and too top it off there was a lunch wagon there would have been $21 for a meal so i skipped that , hardly any live auctions anymore so was a good waste of my day

Going to an auction looking for a steal of a deal is like going to a court of law and looking for justice. In the end the majority of times you are going to be disappointed.

 

[mulitweed]

its a gamble , i wasted a day , but saw a fellow bidding on an item i have he lost out , so i sold him an old disc that was sitting rotting away

 

[Elviscaretaker]

The auctions are a big gamble these days. Internet auctions actually get people to sometimes pay over the new cost. Saw one lot I was interested in and it was going at a decent price, went in to look at it one more time and half the product was removed from the sale with no mention of that. Person who bought it paid 2x the new cost with a warranty to boot. Decided that place isn't worth bidding at. At the others I frequent, I decided to get to know the owners and workers. Most of the places are honest but again, online, the owner can still bid it up while in person you can see who is doing it. Set your max, stick with it.

 

[Shenandoah MF1760]

Sometimes with online auctions, the seller is just trying to see what value he can get from an item.

You see this happening when your bid gets a reply of minimum bid not met. This means either they've put the value at an unreasonable price just to see what it'll bring, or they want retail or better for used goods.

 

[JasperFrank]

eBay became a waste of time. I'd set my limit, then just watch the bids incrementally, go up... But its only one other bidder. It finds my limit, by their last bid. Then they would disappear. eBay would contact me and say I was the last, now high bid. Do I want the item? Always said no. It was obviously the seller on another throw away account, or working with a partner doing this to find anyone's limit. If its my limit, then it isn't really an auction. I'd rather just buy and sell on Amazon.

 

[Handloader109]

I use buy it now on 99% of my ebay purchases , but I got a 1 year old iPad pro recently at about half of the new model and $300 less than several others that sold at roughly same time. You can get some items at a bargain every now and then. Another like item sold 3 times without actually being sold..... price was jack3d way up each time. We had a land auction next door for 4 -10 acre lots. Dispute from 20 odd years ago between brothers, one of whom has passed. 2 cousins ended up outbidding everyone else and they divided the 40 acres between them. 2 lots then resold a couple of months later. Weirdest auction that wasn't a real auction. I don't think money ever changed hands

 

[mulitweed]

Todays nightmare , bought a melroe multiweeder on an online auction , in the pics didnt show main frame tire was shot ! was a lot of f%%king around got it home though, was a couple trucke i bid on after lokking at them glad i didnt get them went over to look before sale some dude as there said noone could come on property if owner wasnt there , said sam crap when i went to pickup told him to get lost !