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Old 05-04-2022, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Flintboy View Post
I keep reading about auction houses and “extended bidding” what’s the reason for it? Why not just say the auction ends on X date and time and high bid wins it? I continually read horror story after horror story about these auctions and it seems to always involve “extended bidding”. I always buy off eBay and here on the BST so my knowledge on auction houses is pretty non existent, hence my question.
I can tell you from a recent auction that I consigned items to. I freaking like it! I had an item increase my return by a couple hundred bucks. Something that would not have happened if the auction would have had a hard close.

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