How did the 54ers do in Mastro?

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Posted By: JimB

I was jumping up and down about this win late last night.
JimB

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Jim -- nice pickup. You don't see many of those around.

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Posted By: Paul

I think I'm the person Leon was referring to. I won one of the N173 Old Judge cabinets in the last Mastro auction. The individual bids were miles behind the group bid until the very end, but then the individual bids inched out the group bid by just a few hundred dollars.

It worked out fine for me, but only because I was in a rather unique situation. There was nothing else in the auction that was selling for anything near what I wanted to pay. So, I didn't have to make any strategic decisions about whether to keep bidding on the individual N173 or redirect that money elsewhere. And even in my situation, it was annoying to think that I could be the high bidder by $1,000 or more on a card and still not win.

The other difficulty with this format is that the clock restarts on the 30 minute rule any time anyone bids on any lot in the group. I was the only bidder on my card for hours, but the clock kept getting reset back to 30 minutes every time someone bid on one of the others. Of course, I'm glad they kept bidding. That's the only reason the group bid lost.

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Posted By: Peter Calderon

Doug is taking the weekend off to be with his family or he would have responded himself.

I repeated the comments made here and he said that he, as always, appreciates the feedback and thought there were some valid points made. No decision is made hastily and without input from all parties involved. We weighed the pros and cons of the format and obviously decided this format was best. He did add that the option of offering the Cracker Jack set and the Old Judge collection in the "Set vs Single" format was a key factor in securing the two consignments and that the consignor of the Cracker Jack set gave us the set to auction specifically because we would utilize the "Set vs Single" format.

We are always looking for suggestions to improve the process so if anyone has one, please feel free to call or email Doug at dallen@mastroauctions.com.

...starting on Tuesday.

Peter Calderon
Mastro Auctions

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Posted By: Andrew

Jim,

That N167 is oh so sweet. Definitely one of the few for my over $5000 card wantlist.

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