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Re: Tonight's Auctions

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 09 Nov 23 1:45 PM | 45 view(s)
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There were two auctions Wednesday. This first yielded just four "wins," shown below, and costing us just $12.65 including the seller's premium.

I'd have been disappointed with the insignificance of the wins - after all, picking them up involves a long drive - but this auction's pickup location and time coincides nicely with the second auction's pickup location and time. They're just twenty miles apart, with one hour separating the two.

This auction's wins included:

• Two sawhorses, $2.
• A vintage, wooden magazine rack, $6
• A clock and piece of wall decor, $2
• A workbench (but not the items upon it), $1.



















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Re: Tonight's Auctions
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Thu, 02 Nov 23 6:21 AM 		Msg. 47161 of 60008

Tonight's auction included a Dell Inspiron 3668 computer, shown below, along with a monitor and mouse, which we won for $8.00. It looks to be a really nice system from 2016 or later. My sense is that the entire auction was from the house of a proverbial little old lady. Much of what was being sold had a woman's touch to it, and everything was going - so I'd guess that she either died or was being put in a home. From the start, I suspected that the computer was probably lightly used could be a bargain. My intended ceiling was $31. Fortunately, nobody else in the auction audience was thinking the same way.

The auction also included a heartbreaker. A flat screen TV described only as an "LG" was selling for $1. A look at the back revealed it to actually be a Pioneer Elite 50" Plasma TV. A google search showed the set selling for around $3,500 (when new)! We put in a bid when there were only 6 minutes left and had it at $9 for a little while. Then $13. Then $23. Our final bid was $101. The competition took it for $106. *sigh* Oh well. Life is full of small disappointments. It's only a TV, though a very, very, very nice one.

UPDATE: In the course of writing this post, I tried to pull up the auction history and there is no record of the Pioneer Elite. It's been removed - which makes me think that the auction house invalidated it. LOL... all that work and eventual disappointment, for naught! I wouldn't be surprised if the children of the prior owner called the auction house and told them that the TV was *NOT* for sale! Or that it was supposed to have a starting bid of $500. Or that in calling it an "LG" when it was actually a "Pioneer," the bidding was ridiculously lax. In any case, the lot is gone and I take that to mean that it's been invalidated. I've never known that to happen before. Before an auction, yes, but after? Never. I bet, though, that the auction terms allow the house to invalidate a purchase right up to the time of payment.

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