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Sorry Eric, I won't join you on that one.
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03-17-2012, 07:38 PM | #25 | ||||||
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As I think about this, I'm not sure this is a bad thing? The item isn't going to sell because nobody has bid up to the reserve, so they bid. The seller isn't going to sell the item anyway without another bid, so if they bid and another bidder counters and it is over the reserve, everybody wins. But, deep inside, it seems somehow wrong; if you know what I mean?
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03-17-2012, 08:19 PM | #26 | ||||||
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i dont understand all this...but then ive never been to a gun auction in person...i dont think ill be bidding on their guns... charlie
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03-17-2012, 09:13 PM | #27 | ||||||
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Any local auction company I've ever been to that was selling guns or whatever that had a reserve always announced this item will be started at such and such because thats what the owner set it at .
Went to a local auction about 5 years ago expressly to view and possibly bid on an original signed Pennsylvania flintlock rifle . Not until I sat there for 2 hours waiting for it to come up did I find out the gun had a reserve that was maybe $3000 over what I had planned to spend . On the one hand they told us upfront when it was brought forth . But on the other hand if it had been disclosed in their catalog it would have saved me the trouble of driving the 25 miles to Charlottesville , sitting there for almost 3 hours for nothing and the return trip home ! Oh yeah no one bid on the rifle . Now when i go up and preview their auctions I generally leave an absentee bid and before I do that I aks if the item has a reserve . To be totally honest my patience for sitting in the auction house is next to nothing . There are a couple other places semi close to us that generally have semi annual gun auctions that my father and I attend . And generally if they have something I want I will wait since they are a bit of a drive . Also preview the same day as the auction which tends to make it longer . But sometimes it works out and alotta times it doesn't .
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03-21-2012, 01:00 PM | #28 | |||||||
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03-21-2012, 07:49 PM | #29 | ||||||
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Well, Well, Well that sounds like a loada crap. What about when a gun is "hammered" for less than the reserve and they won't return it to the original owner but THEY meet the difference between hammered and reserve then sell it out the back door and the consignor is beat out of the deal.
I wouldn't bid on a gun from them no matter what it was. I know more than one person who got the wrong end of Julia's. |
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03-22-2012, 01:29 AM | #30 | ||||||
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Aaaahhh, I think I'll do business elsewhere.
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