major auction houses a lesson to be learned

[sflayank]

what we learned from mile high yesterday is that you should consign psa stuff to them
regionals to huggins and test issues to scp or legendary
rare memoribilia and unique stuff to robert edwards
they all have their on niche of bidders
you could have stolen some 67 standups yesterday at mile high
or you could pay a fortune for cheap stuff in psa holders

[barrysloate]

Actually I think they all have the same bidders...but I agree certain auctions do have their specialties, which in turn brings in like consignments.

[calvindog]

What we learned from last night is that flowery, grammatically incorrect language is the driving force behind high auction prices.

[barrysloate]

Jeff- wouldn't you think that a company that wants to put out a professional auction catalog could spend a little time proofreading it...or find a college English major to look it over for a few bucks?

[kylebicking]

All auction catalogs have these problems. I think they're quite amusing, especially when a player's name is spelled wrong.

Attention all auction houses - proof reader for hire right here...

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Jeff- wouldn't you think that a company that wants to put out a professional auction catalog could spend a little time proofreading it...or find a college English major to look it over for a few bucks?

No. Flowery language gets the competitive juices flowing which causes insane, 8x the value prices. I never said the language had to make sense.

[rman444]

Jeff - I hope you realize that I have the term "flowery language" copyrighted. You will have to pay me a nickel every time you use it. I should have enough for a full sized BG Cobb in no time.

[murcerfan]

Larry..i do agree on the '67 standups, BUT if you wanted a '68 3-d Powell in psa8 you had to beat $8,500 .... 3-d Stottlemyer in psa6 set somebody back $3,800 (i picked one up that graded psa7 in 2003 for $800) ..conversely the Flood psa6 was cheap, as were the easy ones... I paid about what I expected to upgrade my Staub to psa6.

I also thought the D304 Kelly, and a few of the E90-3 cards got strong action.

There do seem to be good deals to be had lately...lots of material being auctioned and money tight for most of us.

[Wesley]

Originally Posted by sflayank

you could have stolen some 67 standups yesterday at mile high

If the 1967 Test Stand-Ups that sold last night were from the Charlie Conlon Collection copies sold in REA, someone really took a huge loss. When REA sold them in May 2009, they went for 5x to 12x as much, depending on which lot they came from.

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2009/843.html

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2009/842.html

What do you think, Jeff?

[E93]

For people who don't like too much verbiage in auction catalogs, many sure like seeing their own (boringly repetitive) verbiage on the screen.

Question: WHat is more annoying: lengthy auction item descriptions, or people complaining about the same thing over and over and over again?

[drc]

I don't repeat myself. I rephrase.

[B O'Brien]

Originally Posted by E93

For people who don't like too much verbiage in auction catalogs, many sure like seeing their own (boringly repetitive) verbiage on the screen.

Question: WHat is more annoying: lengthy auction item descriptions, or people complaining about the same thing over and over and over again?

Well put.

I could care less how long or flowery they are.

If you don't like the description, don't read it. I don't mind them, they make for good bathroom reading when I don't feel like grabbing War and Peace for a five minute trip. I am sure that some of the write ups have contributed to the bottom line at least a couple times, when someone that was not as familiar with the item as others, got swayed by the description.

Has anyone ever not bid on something because the description was long or flowery? I doubt it. Has one ever added just one more bid increase? I am willing to put money on it.

Anyone that has to deal with sales people (I am not one, but deal with them all the time), know that there is going to be some BS involved, it is just part of the deal.

That is just one man's opinion, and that man is Bob!
Take care
Bob

I don't feel like down loading the spell check, so feel free to knock a feller for growing up in the public school system and relying on Outlook to fix my work mistakes. Now go eat at Popeyes, chicken that makes you feel good about things!

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by E93

For people who don't like too much verbiage in auction catalogs, many sure like seeing their own (boringly repetitive) verbiage on the screen.

Question: WHat is more annoying: lengthy auction item descriptions, or people complaining about the same thing over and over and over again?

The latter; the auction eventually ends.