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Originally Posted by Powell
I bid for the set in extended hours. The bid said I was winning. I waited 30 minutes and no bids. The website said I won the set, same this morning and later that morning it said I lost. I understood that the bid on the set had to be higher than the total of individual lots. I didn’t understand I had to add up all the individual lots myself in the middle of the night. Other auction houses tell you if the individual lots are ahead. I would have bid higher had I known. If it got too high there were individual cards I would have gone for. I felt misled and deserved better treatment after bidding more than 600K for the entire set and not learning until late morning that I “lost.”. The consignor lost too. It’s a bad day for me, for Heritage and the consignor — but a good one for the good people who ended up being deemed high bidder on the individual lots as I had no warning I needed to bid again and the website said otherwise.
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That's tragic. I was curious how that was going to work, obviously it didn't and that's unfortunate for such a historical offering and you as a bidder. Not only were you willing to buy the whole set but because of the format you don't even walk away with one. Hindsight, but an explanation on the process either on the website or in private with high dollar bidders like yourself would have been helpful.