When is the high bid NOT the winning bid? At Hunt's!

[jefferyepayne]

I kinda halfheartedly bid on Hunt stuff. Their web site is absolutely horrible, I can't figure out if I won or lost half the time, and they aren't good at sending reminders when their auction closes.

Even when they have stuff I really want, I tend to put in placeholder bids and then forget about them as they don't follow up very much.

jeff

[Bugsy]

I have had significant issues with them in the past as well. I no longer bid on any of their lots.

[pherbener]

On the positive side, I've won a few items through them that weren't described accurately and went for well below market price. Not good for the consignor though! I would never consign with them!

[clydepepper]

I've never bid on any of their auctions and, based on what I've read here, I never will.


Feel free to pass that along to them if problems persist...there's too much competition out there to settle for that kind of screw-up. IMHO




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[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by pherbener

On the positive side, I've won a few items through them that weren't described accurately and went for well below market price. Not good for the consignor though! I would never consign with them!

Just curious... what items were not described? Maybe that's part of their lure is to show lousy pictures and have basic descriptions. I bid on a couple of lots and only one time did the live auction not take my bid as I was too slow.

One reason why the above posters problem happened was he might have had an auction limit and the software didn't accept it. Christies had the same feature as when a lot whet over a certain amount, I couldn't bid if I wanted too.

[pawpawdiv9]

I looked at this auction a lot, bidded a few times. My most critique is no reverse/back images. And the descriptions are a bit weak.
I noticed that I have to use Firefox to be able to bid, my IE wont allow it.

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Just curious... what items were not described? Maybe that's part of their lure is to show lousy pictures and have basic descriptions. I bid on a couple of lots and only one time did the live auction not take my bid as I was too slow.

One reason why the above posters problem happened was he might have had an auction limit and the software didn't accept it. Christies had the same feature as when a lot whet over a certain amount, I couldn't bid if I wanted too.

The most recent one was a lot of Misc. Yale items. It included a rare image of Hobey Baker. Would've probably sold for 3-4x if it were labeled correctly.

[slidekellyslide]

I used to love their monthly internet/phone auctions. I would clean up. It was like Christmas, you would receive lots that were so poorly described there would be tons of stuff that wasn't even listed in the lots. Nowadays it's hard to win anything in those auctions, I can see why people still consign to them even though their website is like something from the mid 90s.