Posted by rockyridgefarm on November 13, 2016 at 05:07:32 from (96.61.189.179):
I went to an auction yesterday. Old welding and repair shop filled with really neat and old machinery. Lots of stuff in really good shape and lots more stuff in various states of disrepair, just a nice old typical repair shop. Would have been a really great sale if a little more effort was put forth.
First off, the auctioneers were complete amateurs. At least a dozen times, they'd say "SOLD", then take late bids. I had always thought that was illegal. In fact, I've seen other sales where they apologize to the late bidder and say they can't take late bids. Maybe that's a trick to speed up the bidding, but speeding up sure would have happened.
Then, they had these tall sided white boxes for flats. They'd hold up the box, dig around in them, say what is in, BUT NOT SHOW THE CROWD! They could have taped the tops shut and cut them in half horizontally to get two boxes that people could see in. One item that could have went REAL cheap was a box plumb full of snap-on wrenches and sockets. They held it up and said "Miscellaneous sockets" and started it at 2.50. Crowd knew what was in the box and bid it up to $270 at $2.50 increments! Good thing the crowd knew what it was doing.
After that snap-on box, they sold busted up welded-on vise grips, C-clamps, jacks, etc in piles for "choice". Just dragged out the sale with people coming up, digging through, and taking one. The whole while the auctioneer was asking people to "hurry up, please". Guess he doesn't know that he's the one who sets the pace...
It was well after dark, and people were using flashlights to see when they came to the machinist chests. The chests were full, so they'd open a drawer and offer choice out of the drawer! If the tools weren't going with the chest, they should have taken them out and put them on flats.
This is a new auction service in the area run by a bunch of young guys, and I wish them the best, but they're gonna need to greatly improve their service. It takes very few sales like this to lose crowds.
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