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11-25-2018, 05:19 PM
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I thought the system was great. I plugged in placeholder bids early on for everything I was interested in so I'd have flex during OT. Not one of them held up, which was expected. I found one lot with no bids an hour before the close and bid on it. I was the sole bidder so I won it at the close and didn't have to think about it again. I then concentrated on the rest and ended up with one lot I wanted. There were plenty of emailed warnings and I thought I read that I could even have asked for a text alert had I really cared to.
I don't see what else can be done. Al owes it to the consignors to allow a bidding war over an item to continue until it exhausts. If you are east coast you bitch about the late close; if you are west coast you bitch about it if the auction closes in the afternoon. No one can ever be pleased 100%. If you want the certainty of a hard close time, go to eBay. This is an auction. Bidding goes on as long as it has to, and if this is your first time you have to bid.
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11-25-2018, 06:46 PM
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You whiners are funny.
If I had an auction house, I would set one of my auctions to close to regular bidding at 10 in the morning eastern, and watch the extended bidding still go past midnight because unless you set a HARD end (like ebay) it's always going to be a battle of attrition. I put in my max bid on my most wanted item, and lost it well beyond midnight. C'est la vie. Doug "who won the 1915 Red Sox scorebook?" Goodman
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11-25-2018, 07:19 PM
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I wasn't chasing anything hard in this auction, but I thought the format seemed quite sensible.
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11-25-2018, 09:29 PM
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eNDING
I am not sure I understand why all the complaining? 90% of the lots closed in the first extended period. 90%!!! So all of these complaints over 90 lots? There is obviously no perfect solution but this is as close to it as you can get in my opinion.
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11-25-2018, 10:01 PM
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11-25-2018, 11:11 PM
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I also like to complain. My current favorite complaint, as somebody who flies commercially about 130 times a year is : Why don't planes have milkshake machines? They have coffee, tea, various other drinks, but the flight attendant asks me what I would like to drink, my answer of "a milkshake" never succeeds in getting me one. Doug Last edited by doug.goodman; 11-25-2018 at 11:11 PM.
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11-26-2018, 12:08 AM
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I like the closing format, both as a Buyer and a Consignor.
Very pleased with the results, and the ease of bidding. Infinitely better than those annoying auctions who close on a “lot by lot” basis. Many thanks to Al and Jeff for running a great auction!
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