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Tim,...   how would you feel if you were the current high- bidder,...   anticipating a good deal,...   and then to have someone with no skin in the game, potentially ruin your chance of the good deal by increasing the pool of bidders?

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With 14 1/2 days left in the auction, there's no way to even begin to guess how high or low it will close. With the holidays coming up soon, who knows, people might be saving their money for other things.

I personally don't bid on auctions that will require a fan to be shipped, unless it's with a firm that has a lot of experience shipping a fan. Way too much opportunity for disaster.

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3 hours ago, Jim Kovar said:

Tim,...   how would you feel if you were the current high- bidder,...   anticipating a good deal,...   and then to have someone with no skin in the game, potentially ruin your chance of the good deal by increasing the pool of bidders?

Well damn me all to hell for trying to share. No good deed goes unpunished.

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People spend a lot of time and effort looking for stuff. It's competitive. People get grumpy when they think they've found a hidden gem and someone exposes it. This is a long standing issue. There was one guy on here would do it just to stir up trouble. To each their own, but I'm on the open auction do not expose list. It's just courtesy and if it's in someone's backyard doubly worse as they have the can pickup option. Like I said, to each their own.

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12 hours ago, Jim Kovar said:

Tim,...   how would you feel if you were the current high- bidder,...   anticipating a good deal,...   and then to have someone with no skin in the game, potentially ruin your chance of the good deal by increasing the pool of bidders?

Ridiculous!!!!

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Thanks ,I try to give heads up to all happy collecting

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I just noticed something really odd about this auction. Unless it's a typo in the ad, it looks like the auction is running for two months, from 9/15 to 11/8. I've never seen bids solicited for this long in any auction I've ever seen in 30+ years.

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11 hours ago, Daniel OToole said:

I...  ...give heads up to all...

Since you have that
  "no skin in the
      game, let's tell all..."

mindset,...  please do
apply that BS rationale
at a casino.

Stand behind a poker
player and sneak a peek
of his hand, then blurt out
what he's holding.

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Please have someone
video it and post it!

We would all love to see
what would happen.

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29 minutes ago, Jim Kovar said:

Since you have that
  "no skin in the
      game, let's tell all..."

mindset,...  please do
apply that BS rationale
at a casino.

Stand behind a poker
player and sneak a peak
of his hand, then blurt out
what he's holding.

royal-flush-746x420.jpg.d7359b1a7060850e10ae9c08c9c229c9.jpg

Please have someone
video it and post it!

We would all love to see
what would happen.


I’d say it would be more like a fellow walking into a bar filled with working class, blue-collar folks, and saying, “Hey guys, there’s a poker game going on next door!  Go check it out!”   Some of the folks there already know about the low-key game and were planning to take part, and they get upset because now they might have to contend with someone at the bar who didn’t know but has deeper pockets than they do.   Sure, I’d like to score a pristine 1899 pancake for $100 that’s missing only the power cord because the ignorant seller posted it as a “dirty worn-out fan that doesn’t work”  and no one else caught it, but if other folks cotton onto the auction, so be it. 

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9 minutes ago, James Lawson said:

I just noticed something really odd about this auction. Unless it's a typo in the ad, it looks like the auction is running for two months, from 9/15 to 11/8. I've never seen bids solicited for this long in any auction I've ever seen in 30+ years.

Its not odd at all. Barber auctions is straight up. I have been going there since they were doing it by hand bidding. When Covid hit they thought they were going to go out of business. They went on line and its really hard to get a great deal now. when it was just 30 people or so holding up a hand to bid locally you could get some spectacular deals. Now things go many times for more than what I can buy them on eBay. Once in a while something gets missed. The only thing you really have to watch for is [and I know many of the people who work there] that no one there is an expert on 99% of the items. So I have seen many fakes that are sold as real. Fans are not really faked so not much of a risk there. but 80% of the WW2 German items they have sold are fake. The Description is usually lacking. Sometimes nothing at all is in the description.  Bigger items like the National Cash registers will only sell locally. I bought one to refurb from Barber and these are heavier than a dead preacher.

But its the same on eBay and other auctions. Buyer beware. I have had so far good luck with things that are not labeled correctly that make a huge impact on the value. Some months ago I bought a Daguerreotype photo of what was labeled with a very old type written piece of paper that said Confederate soldier. Anything Confederate is very high value in most cases. So I won the bidding but after I got it, I posted it on a civil war forum and some antique photo forums. It was obviously original but it was faded so it was really a Union soldier in Cav. dress. they cut the price in half and gave me a refund. but then other things slip by, I bought a antique bracelet that was made of Egyptian Beds and a Scarab in the middle. They thought it was a reproduced tourist item. I bought it for a fair price and sent photos off to Several Egyptian professors in colleges around the country, a seller of original Egyptian items and the British Museum. All came back with the same answer. The box it came in was an antiquities dealer in the 1950s. The bracelet itself was an early 20th century make with original ancient egyptian beads and an original ancient Egyptian Scarab.

Barber auctions is legit and they do the long auctions now mostly because they get many estate sale items in bulk and it takes time to log them in with photos ect. They will be adding things to the auction a few days before the end of the auction. There is most times a soft close to the auctions. No real sniping. They work like Gun Broker. If you bid any where under one minute it adds a minute. I have seen things go to 2 seconds and someone drops another bid. and 99% of all the serious bidding happens in the last 20 minutes of the auction. So if you want something fav it and then wait till the day the auction ends and bid. Or you can just put in the max you are willing to pay as soon as you see it. both have worked and not worked for me.

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2 hours ago, Jim Kovar said:

Since you have that
  "no skin in the
      game, let's tell all..."

mindset,...  please do
apply that BS rationale
at a casino.

Stand behind a poker
player and sneak a peak
of his hand, then blurt out
what he's holding.

royal-flush-746x420.jpg.d7359b1a7060850e10ae9c08c9c229c9.jpg

Please have someone
video it and post it!

We would all love to see
what would happen.

Your analogy is apples and oranges.

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2 hours ago, Todd Adornato said:


I’d say it would be more like a fellow walking into a bar filled with working class, blue-collar folks, and saying, “Hey guys, there’s a poker game going on next door!  Go check it out!”   Some of the folks there already know about the low-key game and were planning to take part, and they get upset because now they might have to contend with someone at the bar who didn’t know but has deeper pockets than they do.   Sure, I’d like to score a pristine 1899 pancake for $100 that’s missing only the power cord because the ignorant seller posted it as a “dirty worn-out fan that doesn’t work”  and no one else caught it, but if other folks cotton onto the auction, so be it. 

You know, if anyone let this pass and did not share it and it went to some poindexter who knows nothing of fans and wants to put lights in it and make a lamp out of it, then you would get what the heck, why did you not buy it/share the auction ect. Some people would not be happy if you hung them with a golden rope.

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I follow stuff on most auction platforms. Snagged a really nice Pancake locally to me on Hibid over the summer. I assume other bidders may have wanted shipping, so I was able to bid a bit more being 20 minutes from my house 🤑 

To be honest, I never really watched Hibid until people started posting links to it on here and Facebook. But I'm not much competition on the high dollar stuff, most of it I let go when it's not cheap or somewhat local.

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Hanged with a golden rope is still hanged. Do what you want, it's an open platform, no one's stopping you.

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Personally, I don't share stuff that is on auction sites unless I see something that is obviously fake or a scam. BUT, I also don't judge someone for sharing the information if they care to do that. Like Mike said, this is an open platform so there is no prohibition from doing it. I appreciate the information.

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Auctioneers are a strange bunch... If you give too much for an item they just smile and laugh... But! If they think they didn't get enough for it they squall like a smashed cat... Now as most of you know auctions are adding "buyers premiums" I think these are rip offs in at least 2 ways... Number one, They are already charging the seller 30-40% for selling the crap... Number two, The buyer takes into consideration how much the Auctioneers premium will be and that my friends is screwing the seller that they are supposedly working for! It's all one way anymore and you just as well give it away at a garage sale... So I don't feel bad at all getting a "good deal" at an auction and I love hearing them cry how cruel the world is! ON LINE AUCTIONS have become nothing more than rip off events with fuzzy pictures and no info on what you are buying... 

So... I spend a lot of time looking at auction sites looking for deals then!! Someone posts it and i have to tap out... Now I have buddies i will send info to about an auction if I am not interested in a fan or other items... It is a select few who have scratched my back and I try best as I can to scratch theirs! I am not a fan of guys posting auctions giving it to those who have made no effort to do the research on their own!!

In closing! I have a word of advice!!! Do not consume alcohol and bid on an on-line auction... You end up with bad results and yur "fan buddies" will laugh at your discomfort! Js....

geo...

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1 hour ago, Michael Rathberger said:

Hanged with a golden rope is still hanged. Do what you want, it's an open platform, no one's stopping you.

Its a phrase Said humorously to emphasize that someone complains often, especially over seemingly minor or trivial things.

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4 minutes ago, Tim Babcock said:

Its a phrase Said humorously to emphasize that someone complains often, especially over seemingly minor or trivial things.

Yeah... My sweetie says I whine too much too! 😅🤣🤣

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Truth be told I'd rather be hanged with an old dry rotted brittle hemp rope. I still have a chance that way. So yes, I would complain about being hanged with a new or even a golden rope.

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1 hour ago, George Durbin said:

I am not a fan of guys posting auctions giving it to those who have made no effort to do the research on their own!!

The smartest (maybe the
   only smart?) thing you
      ever posted, Rocky!  tongue.gif.4cdbd12f65f85b6c3be25682d3d0db6d.gif

See you soon at Doc's.  Thumbup.gif.167ac5bbe901d624cf36d4f4d33069cc.gif

Don't forget to
               bring my Zero!  Pissed.gif.41093a1dd21ed9c100845bdad42b0c61.gif

Posted
3 hours ago, Tim Babcock said:

Your analogy is apples and oranges.

It's a dead-on analogy
and you know it.

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Kovar! this Zero fan thing you seem to be on? Is it because you think you will live long enough to see a real profit? And if you buy ANTHING that says "collectible" on the box, then it ain't collectible unless you are buried with it in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt for 2 thousand years and when they dig you and the Zero up they will be laughing because "Zero" will still mean Zero dollars and cents even 2 thousand years from now.. js...

Geo...

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3 hours ago, Michael Rathberger said:

Truth be told I'd rather be hanged with an old dry rotted brittle hemp rope. I still have a chance that way. So yes, I would complain about being hanged with a new or even a golden rope.

Uhhh... Mike you seem to have thought about this a little too much... 😅🤣😂

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