AS I understand it, bidding up your own stuff is called shill bidding, and against the law in most places I have been. I have been to a few where the auctio0neer was taking "phantom" bids. He was pointing to a spot in the crowd where there was no sign of a bid being made. He tried to bid me up on one item. He kept pointing at me and increasing the bid as I was shaking my head NO. He finally called out a bid, and pointed to me and said SOLD. I said very loudly that I did not make that bid. He restarted the bidding, and I ended up winning for quite a bit less than the first time around. I made note of who that auctioneer was, and vowed never to attend one of his auctions again. Years later, he showed up at an auction that I regularly attended. I went to the office, and asked if he would be a regular auctioneer. They asked me why, and I told them he was a crook, and that I would not buy anything from him. The person in charge said that they had heard that before. Didn't see him back there. Good riddance to him! What goes around comes around!
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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