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Posted By: Josh Siegel

To those of you who don't know me, my name is Josh Siegel. I am the one of the auctioneers at Fusco Auctions. For those of you who do not know me, I have been in the hobby for the better part of the past two decades. I have been working for Fusco Auctions for eight years this fall. I have enjoyed meeting many people, not only on this forum, but within the hobby. I have handling the primary duties for our Sports Card & Memorabilia Auctions. I personally do the cataloging and research, consignments, authentication, assigning card grades, and the other 500 duties that an auctioneer handles. I am a little wet behind the ears when compared to many of hobby veterns. With that said, I need not let Paul take the brunt of the heat. This is the first time anything in an auction I have been part of has ever been called out and I am not sure what to say. So i will say this: The two fo us handle all of the pre-auction bids. I personally removed about half a dozen faxes from the fax machine on Friday and more on Saturday. As I enter the bids any new customers get entered in for mailings. I NEVER received a fax bid for lot contested. Sorry you missed out on the lot Steve as I collect myself and would be sick if I missed out on an item I needed so bad. If I had misplaced the fax I would own up to it. I double and triple checked and it was not over looked. As far as the eBay bidding goes, we have zero control over the bids. eBay executes the bids, period. The winning bidder left a bid above $1000 I am told, so eBay should have proxy bid the lots accordingly. Here is the bid history on the lot. If you look, there are three bid amounts at $675. The top listed bid is the eventual winning bidder. Based on these bids, the lot should have opened at $700. The asterick indicates the bidder's max bid have not been exhausted. Based on this, eBay executed Steve's bid up to $675.

vguerrerobb( 1685) -- * Jun-21-08 06:01:37 PDT 07601 -- Details
jpcw( 105) US $675.00* Jun-20-08 13:08:57 PDT 46764 -- Details
jacklitsch( 888) US $675.00* Jun-15-08 10:38:04 PDT 60005 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $675.00 Jun-21-08 14:58:26 PDT 07601 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $650.00 Jun-21-08 14:57:52 PDT 07601 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $625.00 Jun-21-08 14:57:42 PDT 07601 -- Details
jpcw( 105) US $600.00* Jun-14-08 18:06:26 PDT 46764 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $600.00 Jun-21-08 14:57:26 PDT 07601 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $575.00 Jun-21-08 14:57:18 PDT 07601 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $550.00 Jun-21-08 14:57:06 PDT 07601 -- Details
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $525.00 Jun-21-08 14:56:53 PDT 07601 -- Details
LiveAuctionFloorBidder US $500.00 Jun-21-08 14:56:51 PDT Netherlands --
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $475.00 Jun-21-08 14:56:49 PDT 07601 -- Details
LiveAuctionFloorBidder US $450.00 Jun-21-08 14:56:48 PDT Netherlands --
vguerrerobb( 1685) US $425.00 Jun-21-08 14:56:40 PDT 07601 -- Details
jacklitsch( 888) US $400.00* Jun-15-08 10:30:59 PDT 60005 -- Details
LiveAuctionFloorBidder US $400.00 Jun-21-08 14:56:23 PDT Netherlands --
Starting Price US $400.00 Jun-21-08 14:00:00 PDT

I hope this helps give my perspective and I also acknowledge that the eBay Live (and eBay in general) format can be a turn off at times. Also, In response to Dave F.....If there is something you are not happy with please let me know about it. For the record, the auction on Saturday began at 5:00 PM and concluded about 9:30 PM. All of the invoices were sent out by 5:00 PM today. If my math is right, all of our winning bidders received their invoices withing "72 HOURS" of the start of the auction. That means we packed over 200 items in two days!!! Don't worry, I'll be shure to come in on Sunday's from now on! I know, I know... family comes second right!

My novel is now done,

-Josh Siegel