Hunt Superbowl auction winnings
 

I'm starting this thread without knowing if I won one item, two items...or nothing. This was the most baffling auction I've ever participated in.

I think I won a 1920's football - I placed a live bid, then was outbid by the floor, then that bid was retracted meaning I won, but now the results show the floor bid as the winner :confused:

I also think I might have finally won a Knute Rockne autograph - I was the high internet bid at $900 on a signed book, but during the live auction one bid was placed for $908, which was indicated as the winning bid, and it wasn't me. Then I see my bid as the winning bid in the results, at $900 :confused:

I've enjoyed Hunt Auctions immensely over the years, but the above, plus watching several floor bids that ran the bid up on internet bidders, then waited for 2-3 fair warnings, then were retracted, and topping it all off is the second consecutive year of NFC Championship footballs with, to put it mildly 'issues'...I'm kind of turned off by them. I gave them the dope on the balls this year - they should have at least pursued the problem, and probably should have made a note of the issues in the internet lot descriptions.

I didn't get anything....
 

But I noticed the auction was featured on eBay, so there were previously unexpected bidders getting in on the action via eBay's new live auction feed. I watched about 50 lots in the middle, and it was interesting to see. I did notice a lot of floor bids being retracted, and I couldn't understand why they'd accept retractions from the floor. Did those bidders get suspended/evicted/lose their card?

I ran a few auctions on live auctioneers a few years back .. Everyone once in awhile the person operating the computer part put a bid in my mistake . You have to remember the Internet bids go in automatically but the live bids are manual so there can be mistakes, not an actual retractions .. I doubt hunt would allow retractions .
Matt

As long as the auctioneers understand what is going on. But given how bad it looks to those bidding live over the internet, they should consider different sodtware. I have seen live auction gaffs, but never live bid retractions. I could excuse one or two.

Hunt Auctions
 

I won 2 items, 1951 nfl championship program and some Steelers GU footballs from the 80's. I followed and bid through eBay. I thought the bid retractions were strange as well. I also thought it was interesting they would show lots as passed, start auctioning the next item, then all of a sudden be back on the previous items after other items were sold. The Jim Brown Jersey was one of these Items, they passed on it, then came back to it and it went for over 50k. Guess they wanted to wait for the right bidder!

I probably would have won more lots, but eBay didn't take my bid several times. At least 3 items went for less than what I was trying to bid.

i was definitely happy to add the championship program, the gu balls were just because they went cheap enough.

Tim

That's strange - I was bidding online, but not through ebay. Sometimes when you bid in a live auction through ebay, you pay an additional premium. Hopefully that didn't happen to you, since you could have bid straight through Hunt.

Oh great, didn't even realize I could have gone straight to Hunts. I stumbled upon the auction searching eBay, so I assumed this was the only way to bid.
I just checked their website for the results, and it states prices include 15% buyers premium, that is what I was charged, so I guess I got lucky. ( if you consider paying 15% extra lucky!)

The invoice came directly from Hunts, and not through the normal eBay channels.

Tim

Good to hear!

Well, funny - I didn't get an invoice, so I suppose neither of my high bids, either the live one or the one stated on their website, were actually the high bids. I had a near-miss with an improperly-described item in their last auction, so there are at least two strikes now.

Good photos, honest descriptions, minimal auction hiccups and great customer service are paramount for auction houses. But many of them still aren't getting it.