Auction behavior

rockyridgefarm

Well-known Member
Something that has bothered me for a long time...


Why do people throw their trash everywhere at an auction???? I see soda cans in blowers, paper plates and napkins all over the ground, styrofoam cups impaled on equipment levers, just trash everywhere. Whenever I see someone do it, I ask them if they'd do that at their place. Most just ignore me or comment that everyone else does it. I would NEVER drop my garbage anywhere but in a garbage can.

You'd think that people who frequent farm auctions would be a little more courteous...
 
I first remember an auction in about 1955. There was no visible trashing of the grounds or sale items. I think humanity has drifted towards a combination of disrespect and stupidity. I picked up trash on the way to work today (and many days) to keep my community clean and associated with clean means cared for. Attitudes can fail. A feeling that "this farmer failed and I do not need to act civil on the failed property" Is so wrong. A sign that says "All registered bidders must stay to police the grounds of litter at 5:30." Jim
 
You don't have to go to an auction to see trash, just drive on the road in front of my place in
country. One day I picked up 120 beer cans in one mile. Good thing the drunks are concerned about
their health, they were all low cal beer cans. The paper trash covers the ground. Yesterday someone
left 3 car tires along road. We have a lot of trashy people.

What upsets me more is seeing someone with yard full of old rusty farm equipment that hasn't moved
in decades. I guess they love their yard art.

One old farmer trashed his place so bad the Indiana Dept of Environmental management made he had to
clean up his 50 year old mess.
 
The better auctioneers have more than one trash can so depending on where the crowd is so it does not require much effort to properly dispose of trash. Even with that there are those that stuff garbage into equipment and auctioneers that will not spend 50 extra dollars for half a dozen trash containers even though they are driving 70,000 dollar dually's. Kind of funny as just ten years ago a lot of these same auctioneers needed a side business or two to keep going along with grain bin and grain dryer dealers. They all were driving 10 year old vehicles to boot.
 
Some people are just plain ignorant. Why throw trash out a window? or my favorite, cigarette butts everywhere. Just ignorant!
 
People dumping trash everywhere is very annoying. As far as auctions, there are never any trash cans so sometimes you have to walk a long ways to get rid of your trash. I put it in my pocket but it takes a lot of determination to get it in a trash can. Apparently they have decided it is easier to pick up a little trash than to put out garbage cans.
 
yeah - trash IN the equipment really bugs me. WHY would you do that?

Somebody's trying to sell it for one thing, and you're going to help by putting trash in it...? And even if it's already sold - somebody bought it... it's like sticking a
coke can in somebody's new car because the window was down.

I don't get it either.

If you wouldn't do it with the owner watching - why would you do it at all.
 
Plain and simple.
Lack of sufficient garbage cans.
If it was your sale and people were there to bid on your high end equipment, do you really want them a few hundred yards away from the sound truck trying to find the trash can by the burger truck?
I have been to sales that had plenty of trash cans set up and people will use them.
Pay someone to set up and take down garbage cans or pay someone to clean up the yard after the sale, it is going to cost you either way.
Bought a 3-ton at a sale years ago, the kids were happy when I got home as they collected a bag full of pop cans out of the box which up here they get 10 cents a piece for at the recycling depot.
 
I go to lots of auctions and there does not seem to be a big problem with trash. It is a problem in our remote rural areas as well. We live just short of 2 miles from a state highway, on a country sanded road. Had very little problem with trash on the 2 mile stretch until new neighbors moved in a couple of years ago. Immediately noticed lots of trash on road. We usually keep "our" road policed up. Seems lady neighbor works in town and grabs stuff from drive-thru on way home. Even found several sacks with her name on them, so there is no doubt who is the culprit. Soda and beer cans are found everywhere and we keep them picked up as best we can. Just don't understand some peoples mentality.
 
I guess people dropping trash everywhere assume its someones problem other than them. In the end it becomes a problem and it has to be picked up. a lack of a sense of ownership can contribute to the problem as
in poor areas of cities three seems to be a problem with trash being thrown about. maybe they just do not care about their environment? on the matter of rusty and worn out machinery dumped here and there, we
had 1 farmer who did this. the municipality made him clean it up.
 
(quoted from post at 15:18:53 02/02/16) You don't have to go to an auction to see trash, just drive on the road in front of my place in
country. One day I picked up 120 beer cans in one mile. Good thing the drunks are concerned about
their health, they were all low cal beer cans. The paper trash covers the ground. Yesterday someone
left 3 car tires along road. We have a lot of trashy people.

What upsets me more is seeing someone with yard full of old rusty farm equipment that hasn't moved
in decades. I guess they love their yard art.

One old farmer trashed his place so bad the Indiana Dept of Environmental management made he had to
clean up his 50 year old mess.
ay, Geo.......it is the open container laws.....gotta ditch that can ASAP, just in case law stops me. 8)
 
Not everyone throws their trash on the ground or in the equipment, I always find some in the bed of my truck when I leave.
 
What's wrong with driving a ten year old vehicle? My newest vehicle is eight years old. Still looks and runs as good as the day it left the factory, so why spend big bucks to replace it just because some elitist looks down his nose at it?
 
I can't figure that out either. I hang on to mine until I come across a garbage can.

Same thing in my car... never toss anything out the window. I wait until I get home to throw it away.

ALSO highly annoying at the beach. We used to go to the lake every summer... and after unloading my car, I'd always spent the next hour cleaning up the beach: juice boxes, candy wrappers, cigarette butts, stray cans and water bottles. Wow - people go on vacation and just trash the place???

But then again, the resort owners said they did not keep many kitchen tools/pans in the cabins because people were continually stealing the stuff.
 
at my dad and moms estate auction the auctioneer went nuts on the crowd when he saw someone had impaled a Styrofoam cup on the antenna of dads restored Chevy convertible. Bill
 
(quoted from post at 08:18:53 02/02/16) ......................................................
What upsets me more is seeing someone with yard full of old rusty farm equipment that hasn't moved
in decades. I guess they love their yard art.

One old farmer trashed his place so bad the Indiana Dept of Environmental management made he had to
clean up his 50 year old mess.

'One man's trash is another man's treasure'; just don't look as you drive by or if it's your neighbor, get to know him and offer to help him 're-arrange' things. Live and let Live! 8)
 
Nothing wrong with a ten year old truck as I am driving one. I was pointing out that the past few years have been good times for auctioneers so they can afford a few extra garbage cans. I was contrasting the current times with the times of several years ago or more when auctions were far less frequent and did not have high dollar items to drive big commissions. At some point these heady days will come to an end for them and it will be back to more conservative spending and making things last as they did in the past.
 
Some auctions are strung out over a lot of area.

Then they have only one garbage can way over yonder I. The far corner next to the food cart.

If you follow the auction you are going to be with the auctioneer, and not want to leave for a 5-10 minute hike away from the action and find that
one garbage can.

What I see is most farmers at the auction would really really like to keep things neat and look for places to put the garbage - in a rock box, or
wagon or other container.

If the auctioneer or the owner would put out 3-4 garbage cans along the selling route, and I do see a few that do that, 95% of farmers make
very good use of them.

But, we have to be met half way on that.

I kinda see it as usually the auctioneers fault, they aren't supplying a place for trash out where we end up holding the trash?

Paul
 
One way to solve the problem is if the female of the family is throwing to trash out talk to her husban and ask him to keep his eye out for the person that is throwing the trash so you can report them to the authoritys. The patrolman in our area does that and nine out of ten times it will work.

Bob
 
Amen to that . I can't believe how many
people use the nearest ditch or road bank
to unload their trash . What gets me is
you make an effort to keep your road bank
clean and after all you own and pay taxes
on the road there driving on and it's like
it's a challenge to them to mess it up it
seems as if they can build themselves up
by putting you down.
I was at a loss for words when I guy asked
me if it's okay to throw his trash in my
truck he was to lazy to walk to the
nearest trash can and he knew I worked 2
jobs and he only worked part time but he
thought I had plenty of time to clean up
his mess
 
Years ago there was place we called the mesa, where we rode our motorcycles, and had races on occasion. People would also dump their garbage there. The garbage was collected by some of the riders to keep the place clean. If an address was found, the garbage was returned to their front yard. Stan
 
It's not just auctions. Watch the first few laps of the Daytona 500 in a few weeks. When the pack hits the backstretch the first few laps it usually looks like a blizzard of trash.
I clean the roadside by my place too and for years someone has been tossing a Pepsi can a day out the window. I figure they must drink one on the way to work and finish it right about the time they drive by. Every month I pick up at least 20 of them along with all the other trash. I asked the game warden if it was OK to shoot them, he said yes, but only if the vehicle was moving and to use #5 shot or larger.
Ok just kidding on that last part, but it does make ya mad.
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Excellent observation.

There is going to be a fancy auction nearby a little over a month from now. The owner doesn't want vehicles messing up his pristine property. His farm is on a major state highway. I keep telling him that for all the auctioneer is going to make, the auctioneer should be the one concerned about parking. Maybe even to the point of providing off site parking and shuttle service.

Who is held liable if there's a serious accident because of an auction congested highway, and someone wants to sue?
 
Not to uncommon at any large event (fair, tractor show etc.) Add to it lack of garbage cans.
 
I will add when you watch the Indy race and the big start....YEP crap flying all over. People are such PIGS. Now I can see dirving down the road and if you toss an apple core or such at least is bio degradable. As others have posted with beer cans, coffee cups, tires, etc.PIGs
 
Lack of trash cans isn't the reason. I go to a consignment sale 40 minutes from me and they have 6 sales a year. They have dozens of trash cans on the lot, and they still have trash stuck everywhere, sometimes within a few feet of a can.

The "want to stay with the action" is also not the case. I see guys do it no matter how far away they are from the truck. Plus, you went to the food truck to get the plate, why is it so hard to go back to the trash can?? You can fold a plate, or drain and crush a can to fit them in your pocket...

It's just annoying that people who go to a sale can't be bothered. They're as bad as people who toss trash out their car window, actually, they probably ARE people who throw trash out the window.
 
some people are just plan LAZY I have seen people drop their junk when they could have waked 10 feet to a trash can
we have a neighbor that keeps her lawn spotless. it never fails a least once a week someone will throw they trash in her yard.
 
When we do auctions, whoever provides the food wagon, fire department, church, high school band or others are required to provide enough trash cans for the auction. I will tell them about how many cans I figure we will need. They usually do a walk thru after the auction for cleanup. The food vendor receives 100% of the profit from the food sales as well as a donation from me for the cleanup. There is no need to trash the auction site but it is done regardless of the amount of trash cans available. Drawbar pins are 1 item that will come up missing at any farm auction. I've tried to leave the pins in wagons ect. so the buyer will have them to pull the equip't home, and the farmers will pull them and put them on the small items wagons that we're gonna sell from. Seems they just can't stand seeing those pins not where they belong LOL. Just my thoughts, Keith
 
I see a lot of the same people at the auctions near me. The guys that drop their trash on the ground or leave it on equipment are seem to be all different kinds.

I have said something more than once, about half the time they will actually pick it up. The rest I get a dirty look, told its none of my business or I should go F off.

One guy took a half cup of coffee and threw it on a three point mower, the coffee was running all over. Plain and simple no respect for others property. I said, "would you do that at your own house?, I bet you wouldn't." He started to turn around like he wanted to fight, then realized I was at least twice his size. I said "you really should pick that up, there's a trash can right there" He actually did, only after mumbling every name in the book at me.
This guy is "that guy" at the auctions. If he gets outbid, the equipment is suddenly junk and not worth anything. Or he'll tell the guy that just bought it, he overpaid etc. If he wasnt such a slob, he would be somewhat entertaining.

Rick
 
Looking at my finances for the year I should be able to help out minimizing traffic as I have no money to spend so I won't be there. Too bad as I could use a couple of things they are selling. Between that one and the one coming up over to Homer there is a bout a half dozen things I could use. Maybe the stars are lining up so I have a windfall to buy those implements with?
 
It's a sad sign of our culture and it is most places, not just at auctions. I'm in our local Lions Club and we run a summer coed youth softball league in our little town. After the games us senior citizens have to pick up the trash left behind and throw it in one of the numerous trash cans sitting in close proximity. I also am a trail horse rider and it is sad to see the number of cans (99% beer) that people throw along the trails in a wilderness area. Our culture is sloppy to say the least.
 
As Janicholson said, humanity is drifting into a general state of disrespect and stupidity, with no self-
discipline and a total lack of consideration for other people or the institutions of society. So, why should
they act any differently at an auction?

Slobs are slobs wherever they are, but in the instance of events which attract large crowds of people, I
think most people--even those who wouldn't think of throwing trash out their car window--figure that the
event organizers intend to clean the place up at the end of the day, and that their burger wrapper and cola
cup won't make any difference.
 
I'm not an auction fan, but I thought if the weather was nice I would go to the Homer auction to see what prices are doing.

Neighbor stopped by late yesterday to tell me what he thought I should buy at his auction! He's not too far wrong, but I need to sell some of what I've got to be able to afford anything this year. So I might end up trading.
 
I would have fun with that- set out a garbage can, label it "CANS". Hide the trail cam very carefully...
 
(quoted from post at 11:33:47 02/02/16)
(quoted from post at 08:18:53 02/02/16) ......................................................
What upsets me more is seeing someone with yard full of old rusty farm equipment that hasn't moved
in decades. I guess they love their yard art.

One old farmer trashed his place so bad the Indiana Dept of Environmental management made he had to
clean up his 50 year old mess.

'One man's trash is another man's treasure'; just don't look as you drive by or if it's your neighbor, get to know him and offer to help him 're-arrange' things. Live and let Live! 8)

I agree 100%. I love to drive by those places and see what they have. It just ticks me off when they won't sell something to me. lol
I know of a place like that. They had an Oliver OC4 sitting right up by the house for a while,then hauled it back in a field with a bunch of other stuff. I saw the guy out back of the hardware store one day and asked him if they'd sell it. He said no,he thought his dad had another one in the barn and wanted to keep that one for parts. I noticed it's gone. If somebody else has it cluttering up their yard now instead of it decorating mine,I'll be REAL P.O.'d.
 
Reminds me of a funny story. When my son was 7 or so we were driving down the road past my parents farm, we live about 1/2 mile away. My son tossed a snickers wrapper out the window and it blew into a cornfield. Not the funny part. I pulled over and he searched for about 30 minutes for that wrapper without success. He didn't see the big deal because it was grandpas land and he wouldn't care. Well, he would care and so did I. The next morning at about 6 i told him to get up and get dressed in comfortable shoes. As many of you know getting a kid up early on a weekend can be painful itself. At this time I had the old cub cadet and small garden cart pinned to the back and said let's get going. He didn't understand what was going on and attempted to sit in the trailer. HAHA I laughed, your walking behind and picking up every piece of trash from both sides of the road to the stop sign and back. About 2.5 miles total. we were done in under 2 hours with a full trailer, my wife actually brought me a trash bag and took one home. He never did find that wrapper and never showed disrespect, that I have seen, towards his grandpas land again. He actually does this a few times a year now on his own since he is 13, and gets upset when he sees trash along the road. Our local waste company is responsible for a lot of it as they fly down the road with trash going everywhere.
 
I have stopped attending races and many other events where seating is provided. Seems as when any thing is exciting most people will standup, blocking the view of people with common sense. All could see as well as anybody if no one stood. I would like to see authorities remove the view blockers after two stand ups .Why would anybody pay for seating just to stand?
 
If I knew who throws beer bottles in the gravel road I drive on to get to work, I know someone who would let me borrow a side dump, and I know where all the local bars' dumpsters are.
 
I used to get so mad when I used to go to machinery auctions and if I drove the pick up and the people would shove there coffee cups down into the stake pockets on the sides of the pick up box, And it was the same with my roll backs they would push cups and trash into the stake pockets. Oh how I hated that.
 
Like others have said, it is not just auctions, it is generally any public event. For several years I live next door to a county fairground (I was there first before the fair board purchased then transferred
ownership to the city). Talk about disrespect for neighboring property owners. It was almost unbelievable, and I was told that I should not complain at anything that went on, since it was only one week a
year (not really as other events went on there during the year), and I should be enjoying it rather than sitting around complaining about what went on. Prior to this moving next door, I always enjoyed going
to tractor pulls, but after one was place 30 feet off my property line, with it going on until 3 AM and me having to go to work the next day, I got a whole new perspective. People had no problem just walking
through my yard, pulling up lawn chairs, tossing trash onto my property, you name it. Several years of misery living next door to it, and sure glad I finally gave in and got out. I have a stream running
through my property now, and ironically about 2-3 times a year I have someone who believes they can come and go upstream through my property and never feel the need to ask permission. Had a couple this
Sunday, and got the familiar "I can go where I wish in the creek" story. Wrong.
 
FWIW, check out a book titled "God's own Junkyard". The book was published in the 60's with many of the photos from the 40's and 50's. People haven't changed much. Plenty of photos showing trashed empty festival grounds etc.

Watch the background closely in the earlier "Our Gang/Little Rascals" shorts, the silent ones that were filmed in the 20's. They filmed plenty of it in actual neighborhoods and there's garbage and junk aplenty laying everywhere.

I love it when were at an outdoor event and my kids bring me their empty wrappers and drink containers rather than tossing them on the ground.
 
If ypu go to the EAA's Airventure (convention & fly in) you'll find an event that will draw 500,000 people or more without trashing the grounds. I heard a rumor that some of the other events that used their
venue were discouraged from coming back because they trashed the grounds. I have also heard that during the 9 day Airventure with 500,000 people the local sheriff's department responds to fewer incidents than
they do at some of the 3 day concerts with less than 100,00 people. My brother went to the NRA convention a few years back when it was in Indianapolis and noticed that there wasn't as much trash and the
restrooms weren't getting messed up. Some of it may be the people at the events.
 
Goose:

ONLY eight years old. MY "newest" vehicle is 28 years old. You couldn't pay me enough to take one of these new-fangled pieces of plastic garbage with all of their bells & whistles that nobody except high-priced technicians can work on. And all of this fancy (unnecessary) stuff will fail at the worst possible time.
 
I bought a second farm in 2010. The older fella I bought the farm was unable to get a auction sale together
before close date. So he asked if he could hold the sale a few days after I owned the farm . He was going to
keep on living there for 3 months ,till his new home was ready, and we didn't need the house. I agreed , he
had his sale . And after the sale was over he cleaned up any mess that was left behind from the sale. It had
been his home for over 30 years , and still had strong feelings of respect for the land he lived on . Funny
thing about that fella, even though he didn't move too far away, he has never been back to visit with me. I
know he goes by, because he tells his old buddies about how things are looking on his old place, and they in
turn tell me.
 
How about all the people who get together on "Earth Day" for these big rallies, then leave enough trash behind to fill several garbage trucks? Seems to me they're not quite grasping the concept either!
 
Disneyland also has an army of picker-uppers who go around with dustpans and whisk brooms to scoop up anything dropped by some cretin who can't read the signs.
 
Dropping your trash on the ground is LITTERING. Plain and simple. People that do that are PIGS. PERIOD.

I have found that at MANY events such as auctions, there is usually a shortage of proper places to put your trash. Add to that most of the trash cans available are already overflowing by the time you get to them.

Personally, I keep my trash with me until I find a proper place to dispose of it.

Several years ago, I had a close friend that liked to throw trash out the window of a moving car. The first time we went someplace together, he opened the window and threw out a sandwich wrapper. I said "Hey!! We live here!! Don't trash the place." That was the only time he did that in my presence from that point forward.
 
The farmer about 1.5 miles from where I grew up has multiple consignment auctions every year and through high school I worked for them from time to time, He told me once "the trash here is great, it makes mulch when we plow, so don't pick it up, we plow it in" So I guess if there are many folks that had that experience, they may leave trash. I used to pick it up, and still do if on someones farm or a nice facility, but at flower's farm auction, I just throw it on the ground, if he likes it more power to him.
 
at the 2015 NRA convention in Nashville, the Sheriff stated it was the quietest weekend he'd seen in a long time.
 
The people who go to auctions are trash for the most part! They are looking for cheap stuff, and they don't care! I hate auctions. HATE THEM SO MUCH!


It's a culture of "who cares the least."


Auctions are so bad anymore, I won't touch them. It's idiots that do stuff like that and pay the least they can to get equipment. It's a joke. Its true though. The people there are such jerks I hate to be around them. I wish someone put it on film so that everyone could see this crappp.
 
(quoted from post at 09:30:27 02/03/16) The people who go to auctions are trash for the most part! They are looking for cheap stuff, and they don't care! I hate auctions. HATE THEM SO MUCH! It's a culture of "who cares the least." Auctions are so bad anymore, I won't touch them. It's idiots that do stuff like that and pay the least they can to get equipment. It's a joke. Its true though. The people there are such jerks I hate to be around them. I wish someone put it on film so that everyone could see this crappp.

Off the meds again, John? I go to auctions when they have something I might want and I don't think I'm trash, actually a rather respectable, honest and likeable person (who doesn't throw trash on the ground). Yes, I'm trying to pay the least I can for equipment and tools, I don't apologize for that. I don't have an unlimited budget and don't have time to chase ebay and craigslist sellers all over the area. Besides I've never seen the deals I have gotten at live or on-line auctions on either place. I even find things that I didn't know I needed until I saw it! I look at the on-line auctions too but I think more people have found them and the bargains are getting fewer, still some good stuff available for a decent price, assuming someone else doesn't want it more.

As for the people there are some trashy types, but really few, and I've enjoyed talking and laughing with the locals I run into, even the Amish guys are really friendly and willing to talk about farming and their life.
 
Wow!! Tell us how you _really_ feel.

Having been to many auctions, I can only say that you must have been a seller and got too little for your stuff. Too bad. That is what auctions are about. Bidders bid what they are willing to spend for an item. They are not going to pay full retail for something that they can go to a store and buy for the same price. Auctions are a good way to apply the laws of supply and demand - economics 101.

Have a better day.
 
(quoted from post at 01:30:27 02/03/16) The people who go to auctions are trash for the most part! They are looking for cheap stuff, and they don't care! I hate auctions. HATE THEM SO MUCH!


It's a culture of "who cares the least."


Auctions are so bad anymore, I won't touch them. It's idiots that do stuff like that and pay the least they can to get equipment. It's a joke. Its true though. The people there are such jerks I hate to be around them. I wish someone put it on film so that everyone could see this crappp.
Some people know that to be respectable, you should always pay full retail price for what you buy. Bargain hunting is for those who don't care what other people think about them. If you really want to look like you've got money, you've got to be a big spender, so pay full price. I've always admired the folks that are so wealthy they pay sticker price for new cars. We should all be ashamed to ask the dealer for a "better" price. What? You can't afford it?
 
(quoted from post at 04:30:27 02/03/16) The people who go to auctions are trash for the most part! They are looking for cheap stuff, and they don't care! I hate auctions. HATE THEM SO MUCH!


It's a culture of "who cares the least."


Auctions are so bad anymore, I won't touch them. It's idiots that do stuff like that and pay the least they can to get equipment. It's a joke. Its true though. The people there are such jerks I hate to be around them. I wish someone put it on film so that everyone could see this crappp.
I do not suppose anyone at auctions miss you not being there!
 

You completely missed the satire. Well... the ones who replied missed it.


That's my point. You go to auctions to get stuff for cheap, around a bunch of other people there to do the same, and you expect proper etiquette? People sometimes act like animals akin to Black Friday in Walmart at 5am. Get it?

Seriously though, I do rarely go to auctions. It's more a matter of buying something you can't test drive, can't get a warranty, and have to stand out in the weather for an entire day, just to get the privilege to bid. No thanks. I'll haggle down a private seller or a dealer respectfully and try to assure myself that I get some kind of guarantee for the money I spend, if no haggling or a firm price is involved. You can't call up an auctioneer and expect any warranty after you get it home. Correct?

I was at a Ritchie auction a few months ago. A guy in line was bragging that someone stole the gas cap off his new purchase, so he simply "paid it forward" and stole a cap off another item to put on his. Don't you love buying "choice?"

Rogers, Ohio Community Auction used to be famous for having "free truck tailgate removal with every parking spot."

If I offended you and you have nothing to hide with your auction etiquette, then you probably aren't "that guy" that the OP was talking about!

Or you just go ahead and argue with me... You are off to a good start.


:wink:
 

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