Posted by Goose on April 08, 2012 at 20:43:48 from (166.250.98.220):
In Reply to: auctions posted by Roy Prins on April 08, 2012 at 19:05:50:
I see it all the time, not necessarily on farm machinery auctions.
My wife is into collecting antique dishes, etc. You can stand at an auction and watch people sneak a valuable piece of cut glass or something similar into a box of odds and ends, hoping to buy the box for a few dollars with a $300 piece in it.
When we sold some stuff, a guy bought a cut glass vase for $385, then told the auctioneer he wanted the price reduced 'cause he claimed he could see a crack in it. The auctioneer told my wife and I that the SOB tries that all the time, and advised us to take the vase home as a "no sale", which we did.
When I had my auto dealer's license, I bought an S-10 Blazer at the Omaha Auto Auction. Upon checking it out, I found the 4wd didn't work. Someone had pulled a hose off the vacuum actuator and hid it behind a wiring harness. Plugged the hose back in, and the 4wd worked fine. That was no accident.
It behooves auctioneers to keep on top of that stuff, 'cause if an item sells for less than it should, it's money out of the auctioneer's pocket, too. Unless the auctioneer has a shill buying it for his own use. That can happen, too.
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