jerrys
spending too much on rocks
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Post by jerrys on Jun 9, 2015 17:55:38 GMT -5
We enjoyed going to a new rock show last weekend. One of the dealers was actively bidding on silent auction items. He had nice material on his table that I was very interested in, and he lost my business due to his silent auction bidding. Another pet peeve is to see people who are working/running the silent auction bidding on items. Lends the impression they are running up the bids.
What do you think? How does your club handle these issues?
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 10, 2015 9:44:16 GMT -5
Seen this at our last rock show here in Rickreall,OR!!!!! I did three bids and the guy just jumped right on my bids!! So I did a different rock and he was right on that one too-I said the hell with it! Someone told me this was going on the whole day with this guy!!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 12, 2015 6:05:57 GMT -5
Good reason to set a minimum bid first, unfair tactics. I wouldn't buy at an auction house or sale house whose people were upping the bids like that either. And those will be the first to complain that nobody is bidding. geee... grrrr.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 12, 2015 11:42:30 GMT -5
Yes, have had this happen to me and mrrockpickerforever at several silent auctions. Most recently, the one we just went to last month. Had one other person bidding against me for this slab.
He was working the silent auction, he didn't know what it was, either. I would have gotten it for only $3 instead of $9. Normally, if someone bumps me, I bump, and then they keep bumping me back, I just let them have it. No big deal. But on this one occasion, I just wanted it. Oh well, the money went to their club (of which I am not even a member). Then there's the $25 prize money ($3 spent to enter three rocks) in the ugly rock contest. I'm not complainin'. Nice bunch of people...
I have several things I've won in their raffles to keep me happy, too. Like this amethyst cathedral (grand prize) I won there in 2014.
Bob has bid on misc grinding wheels and tooling, and I remember one year someone kept bumping everybody's bids on things. If the guy got stuck with them, he did get them. He always had a booth at one of the shows, but I only ever saw him selling rocks, never non-rock stuff from the auction. So he wasn't buying it to resell. And I don't think he was actually affiliated with the silent auction, just someone in their club.
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 12, 2015 23:21:09 GMT -5
I have no problem with dealers bidding at auctions at shows, if anything it gives an idea what they're worth, they aren't going to bid the full value. As for silent auction workers bidding, the rule we have at all the shows I have helped in is the worker must take a break and get out from behind the table to bid. The worst IMO is when the auctioneer in a live auction bids on items he's auctioning.
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 13, 2015 14:29:12 GMT -5
Yep, that's a good reason to set a minimum bid. As far as who bids, I never cared as all the money goes to the club anyway. Good cause, the higher the bids the better.....Mel
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Post by adam on Jun 13, 2015 15:56:00 GMT -5
I'd just much rather bid the right way.
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 14, 2015 0:12:11 GMT -5
Personally I have tried to get our club to try some sealed bid auctions where the bids are written on bid slips and dropped in a box. When no one knows what anyone else is bidding they will bid to buy. To me that is the right way.
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Post by Toad on Jun 16, 2015 22:49:53 GMT -5
Personally I have tried to get our club to try some sealed bid auctions where the bids are written on bid slips and dropped in a box. When no one knows what anyone else is bidding they will bid to buy. To me that is the right way. Sounds like a great way to me.
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