Marker bid wins
 

I recently won a Knute Rockne signed book for my marker bid. I was wondering if anyone else has ever put in a marker bid on something, then forgot about it, only to find out later that they had won? Horror stories? Great pick-ups?

When this has happened in the past, I always figured the other bidders knew something that I didn't…and it wasn't a good something.

Items can go for minimum bid. I've won numerous items at min bid. Near the end of big auctions, I used to through all the lots with min bids to see if there were good deals left. I guess that made me a bottom feeder.

I placed the opening bid for this piece in a Huggins and Scott auction. I think it was like $250 bucks. Somehow no one else bid on it. And their auctions run for a while usually:

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I've won plenty of items for opening bid, but when I place a 'marker bid' I have no expectation of winning unless I come back and bid again.

I don't quite get the difference. I place an opening bid thinking I'll get outbid later, but since I've already bid I can still bid in extended time. Isn't that a marker bid?

I have won a few marker, or very close to marker bids, before. Things I thought would go for a lot more and didn't.

It sounds like a marker bid is a bid meant as a reminder to go back later and up if necessary, while single minimum bids sound more like straight bargain hunting.

Yes Packs.

Not many cards, and not usually old ones. I've won a few nice stamps with marker bids on Ebay. Especially when they're mislisted and/or end at bad times. Like a nice variety CV $500 listed as the regular version and ending easter morning at 8 AM EST from a seller in Norway. Yes, really. Opener was 40 and I was the only bidder.

I've had a few things go so cheap my typical marker of $5 has held up. It's always a pleasant surprise when it does.

The opposite is also true, There's stuff I've bid on at well over retail and had that bid blown away with 3 days to go- Not just out bid like a shill, but more like 3x a bid that was already 20% above retail.


Steve B

I recently placed a bid only to ensure I continued to get catalogs from a particular auction house....it was a lot of ten, identical items and I can't get rid of the nine I don't need. :mad:

Funny. I did the same thing once - was stunned to win five signed lithographs for my marker bid, which was about 1/2 of what they worth. They turned out to be facsimile signatures, which apparently other bidders had figured out. The auction house refunded my money and told me to keep them, so I made five people very happy by giving them each away over time.

Not really. ;)

Want to buy one or nine 1961 Willie Mays Chemstrand patches? :p