Sounds like an AWEFUL auction!!!

we left around 12:15.
started around a hour and a half late.
took my money back home with me but did stop and have delicious Chinese in JC.
ah well.... maybe they'll show up on time next time

The Trail Drive and Wild Life were good deals.

So glad I didn't waste my time driving 4 hours each way for this.

I wish I could put an item up on Ebay then bid the price up myself like the owners of the pins do.How is that right?

What a joke! Always one greedy clown to ruin it for everybody! Auctioneer was only 2 hrs late to start auction! Wtf??

The whole buy back thing is what keeps me away from this nonsense.

I still don't get why people get upset with buybacks and the seller bidding on their own stuff. It is allowed in the rules, plus it should not matter to other bidders to start with. When you decide to bid on something you MUST have a limit that you bid to and don't go over. The fact that the seller is bidding does not change your bid limit. If you don't have the discipline to stick to your limit, then you shouldn't participate in auctions to start with.

Because if something goes to auction, then it should be "for sale" at the price the buyer gets to without the seller shilling it up... It SHOULD NOT be allowed in the rules. If the seller has a reserve then that needs to be the way it's offered for auction. If the seller didn't want to sell it, then they shouldn't bring it.

Lets just skip the whole bidding process then! Why waste 30 minutes of my life on bullshit! Let everyone know what reserve is at beginning of auction! I got better things to do then listen to banjos in the background as i try to win a pinball!

Would you bring a ST, Met, etc. if there was a risk you had to sell at $2K? The purpose is to encourage sellers to bring games. Sucks for the buyers that the reserves were higher than they wanted, but without the buyback feature those games wouldn't have been there at all.

Its an AUCTION I thought.

Right, with the buyback option they WEREN'T really there because they didn't sell, so what exactly was the point of bringing them??? A reserve price is one thing because it's clearly stated that the item has a reserve BEFORE bidding, and when it's met it will sell, but a buyback/seller shill is plain stupid and unfair. A seller bidding on their own item to increase it's price and if it doesn't sell for what they want they place the high bid?!?!!??? BS. Hey! Look at our auction! 350 items to look at and 20 actually for sale! No thanks... Would make more sense to just charge the seller a fee to "show" their item at a set sale price like an advertising or rent fee. Then at least if no one buys it the auction house still makes some money and the seller gets a price they want or they don't sell. Like have 2 areas, set price sales and the auction sales. At least that would be fair. And yes, If I were to bring something to an auction I would sell it, even if it was less than expected, that's the point. If I wasn't willing to get less I wouldn't have brought it in the first place. Market determines price.