[AT] Strange way to give you auction information

[charlie hill]

Reminds me of an auction company around here that finally went out of 
business due to the health of the auctioneer.  I'm sorry for him but glad 
he's out of business.

I went to one of his sales a few years back.  It was a bankruptsy auction 
for a boat manufacturer.  Folks were there from all up and down the east 
coast wanting to buy the equipment and materials.  This idiot auctioneer 
starts the sale off up in the front shop near the office where he has a 
whole pallet of boxes of those clear plastic notebook page covers you can 
put pictures in.  He's trying to sell them one pack, not one box or the 
whole pallet but ONE PACK at a time.  "give me a dollar and let's go".  He 
persisted with that for 5 or 10 minutes still trying to coax the crowd to 
give him a dollar and go.  There was a guy standing near me from Maine who 
had flown his private plane down for the sale.  I had talked to him.  He had 
a shop where he hand built a few boats a year and he really wanted some of 
the equipment.  He was in work clothes and his hands were very rough and 
permanently dirty.  He complained to the autioneer to move on to something 
someone wanted to buy, as did others.  The auctioneer just kept on plugging 
away at the office junk.  The guy finally shouted out, is there anyone here 
that would give me a ride to the airport.  I was going to offer but about 
half a dozen folks beat me to it.  We all left.

That is an extreme example but all of his sales were just as bad.  I asked 
him about it once and he claimed the bankruptsy lawyer made him do it that 
way.  I don't believe it for a minute.  He had a whole warehouse full of 
stuff that "wouldn't sell" that he tried to retail.  I think he was looking 
out for himself and not his client or customer.  Seems like this guy is 
doing the same.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Waugh" <pwaugh at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:34 PM
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>I did a little 'googling' on this, there is a whole website dedicated to
> this, they want $9.95 to see anything, are auctioneers this hard up??
>
> Paul Waugh
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>>I came across this on ebay.  Someone is wanting you to pay them, so they
>> will tell you where an auction for antique farm equipment is being held.
>> They are charging $9.99 for the information.  Ebay # 280209486108
>>
>> Lou
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