Auction bidder nightmares

[drcy]

I know, and appreciate, how much time it takes to handle a huge number lot auction. I don't run auctions, but was hired to authenticate and write the descriptions for an auction house's specialty auction-- the material was out of their experience so they hired me. I can't remember the number of lots, but, for easy sake, let's say it was 1000. I remember in the middle of the work me calculating that if I took an extra ten seconds per lot that was an additional nearly 3 hours of work. If I took an extra half a minute, that would add a full day's work.

So I understand and appreciate that writing/producing doing the catalog, packaging and shipping the lots after the auction is no mere trifle.

And, FYI, the auction house's instructions for me were (paraphrasing) "Make sure the items are accurately identified and described because we don't want returns."