That's were the choice of auctioneers makes or breaks the seller. When I was in Wisconsin the company I worked for went to an auction, one of the shipbuilders was closing out. Hand tools like Milwaukee grinders and drill were going for more than new. A big Clausing shear and a 90 ton ironworker- pennies on the dollar. We bought the shear and the iron worker for less than we budgeted for a 45 ton iron worker.
One of my county sales I sold two 5 year old Tauruses(Taurusi?) for what amounted to clean retail while not being able to get average trade +10% for 4 year old Malibus. The Malibus had higher book value but I ended up rolling them for less than the Tauruses. Three people wanted Tauruses and drove the price up, after I re-ran the Malibus through the ring one of them was bought by the 3rd Taurus bidder, she was going home with a car just her second choice. 2nd trip through the ring the Malibus were bid up about 25% more than the first trip, one actually hit reserve and the other was about a nickel under.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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