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Posted By: barrysloate

Nothing whatsoever can be gained by making a comment regarding a sale after the sale has been completed. Either the third party is frustrated that he missed out on a good deal, or he is just looking to start trouble between the two parties. We are free to comment as we please, but those remarks are nothing more than negative energy. The deal is done, so who needs to hear somebody else's two cents? As a sidelight, nearly every time I have run an auction I get a call the day after it has closed by someone who says he forgot about the auction (they always forget all 17 days it is up, then magically remember one day too late), asks what a particular lot went for, and then says: "that went really cheap, I definitely would have paid more for it." It's a variation on the same theme: the sale is over, the comments are useless.