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Posted By: barrysloate

As an auctioneer myself I can tell you it's not hard to make a posting error, these things just happen.

When I conducted exclusively phone auctions and posted all the bids manually, there were times they came in so quickly it was hard to keep up. Occasionally I would even forget to post one, or mix up bidder numbers, and would get a call the next day from some angry bidder who claimed to have put in the top bid, yet still lost the lot. I would check my records and sure enough he would be right, and it was entirely my fault.

Hunt's format is different than mine was, but I certainly understand how errors happen. There are a lot of different things going on at the same time, and a lot that can go wrong. You just do the best you can to rectify them.