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Posted By: Joann

It seems like the best bet in an auction structured this way is to stay away from the individual lots b/c your chance of winning is dependent on the behavior and decisions of the bidders in many other lots, not just the one you are bidding on. Your fate is not in your own hands so to speak. Everyone has to collectively come up with enough to beat the high bidder on the whole set.

Were the rules shown in each indvidual lot description? I had looked at several, but may have missed it. I see that it is explained in #1959, but would you see it if you hadn't looked at that particular lot?

As to the seller wanting to max out the sale - that is surely true. But desire to get max price does have some limits. Seems like offering the same item to (arguably) two different people at once - the winner of the big lot plus the winner of the individual lot for a given card - should be one of the limits. Shouldn't the auction house be able to make a recommendation for max return? This kind of sounds like "I don't know, let's try it both ways and see."

What would be the reason for any consignor of a set or near set to ever pick one way or the other? Why wouldn't it always be the best-of-both-ways pick? I wonder if the comission was different, or something.

Joann