I learned a lesson today
 

I had been watching the Thomas Hirchak auction for the Parker AAH 12ga.
and had placed a couple of pre-auction bids on it but decided to not place one last night, with the intention of placing it just before the auction was to open. Well ..... they (proxibid) switched to live mode a half hour before the auction started and I could not place another pre-auction bid. It was only possible to bid live from that point on. Unfortunately this was the first live auction Proxibid had done with this auction house and it was a Beta version of the software. I don't know if the software was just corrupt or if it just couldn't handle the volume of internet bidders but it was running too slow to bid! The AAH ended up going for $14,500.00! That was way lower than I was prepared to bid. I feel sorry for the consignee who probably lost thousands of dollars on the realized price on this gun.
Hopefully someone here won this gun at what I believe to be an amazingly low amount.
Just wished it would have been me.

I also have experienced off site bidding services that do not continue their bidding when the actual auction starts. We should inquire about this before hand. I have used all three of the offsite bidding services and can't tell you which of the three is the problem site.

Not sure what you were watching, but it brought $25,500.

$25,500 plus buyers 15% premium and don't forget the Vt. state tax.

I was watching and it was so slow that it was skipping past lots. I never had the chance to bid on it. I scrolled back to see what it sold for and it was showing $14500. That's really screwed up.

I'm feeling pretty good right now about the sale of that BHE I had. No tax, no sellers tax, no state tax. I might just forget about the arthritis in my left thumb...

It won't let you.... It'll come back with a vengeance just when you think you've beaten it for a while!!

Like a tooth ache :shock:

Thanks a lot