Auction ?

Roger Heim · Jul 11, 2016

Attended a farm auction this weekend a friend of mine sent his son to watch an item sell, his son ask me to bid on an item (he's 17 said he gets nervous) so I did we get the item the auctioneer ask me my bidding # I said put it on Steve's (Steve is my friends son)auctioneer said "O we can't do that" ran us a hundred then he could put it on Steve's number. What did I do wrong? We both knew the auctioneer he knows us we used to be good bidders and always settle up at the end of the auction it isn't so much the hundred dollars it's saying "sold" then not keeping his word. If I did something wrong I will be the first to apologize.Thanks

Dick2 · Jul 11, 2016

Sorry, I would never bid for someone else. Their interpretation and mine will probably not agree so I just decline. I don't want them to bid for me and I don't want to bid for them. Just saves a lot of trouble later.

oldtanker · Jul 11, 2016

(quoted from post at 10:27:08 07/11/16) Attended a farm auction this weekend a friend of mine sent his son to watch an item sell, his son ask me to bid on an item (he's 17 said he gets nervous) so I did we get the item the auctioneer ask me my bidding # I said put it on Steve's (Steve is my friends son)auctioneer said "O we can't do that" ran us a hundred then he could put it on Steve's number. What did I do wrong? We both knew the auctioneer he knows us we used to be good bidders and always settle up at the end of the auction it isn't so much the hundred dollars it's saying "sold" then not keeping his word. If I did something wrong I will be the first to apologize.Thanks

Never heard of that. We take my MIL to some auctions. She's 80 and has trouble keeping up with the selling. She tells us what she's willing to spend and either my wife or I bid then have them put it on her number. Never had an issue.

Rick

Mike M · Jul 11, 2016

First off at 17 will they even give him a number ?

And secondly I think a lot of auctions are cracking down on not swapping numbers around partially in order to keep things looking on the up and up.
I remember seeing an episode of one of those car shows where a guy and his son where there together. Dad got called away to get his car that was coming up for auction to start. Gave his son his photo ID and told him to bid. Boy it didn't take long at all for the large auction company to see the photo ID did not match and they hauled the son off to auction jail until it all got sorted out ! They lost the car, but it all got sorted out. In the end this protects all there because if he dropped his bid card and someone picked it up and could use it that could be a disaster.

Brown Swiss · Jul 11, 2016

Not on the subject but when I went to auction school I was nervous, and a big older guy came up to me and said I look nervous, his name was Hank and wearing a tie die shirt and sun glasses, he said he use to be nervous also, he said then he went to Nam and after getting shot at he didn't see any thing to be nervous about! LOL So he asked me, are you getting shot at? I'm like NO. He goes then you have nothing to be nervous about! And you know it seemed to help, I think about that from time to time, and hope cool old Hank is doing well.

Bill in IL · Jul 11, 2016

I guess it would be like another person out there bidding and that is how he took it. I don't think its right of him but most auctioneers are at some level of a crook.

I have switched things at the checkout window. The two of you go up like your together and ask them to switch the item from one number to another.

Ray · Jul 11, 2016

You should have just held the number up and there wouldn't have been a problem. You don't have to explain anything to the auctioneer. I bid on things for people all the time. I just take there number and bid. The auctioneer doesn't need to know.

Ted in NE-OH · Jul 11, 2016

If you bid for someone else and that person changes his mind and says "I did not buy that" then the auctioneer gets stuck with it.

JD Seller · Jul 11, 2016

Auctioneer just being a jerk and got your friend for another $100. I would have told the auctioneer that the bid was so much and if he did not want to take the bid then walk away. I often have three or four bidder numbers when I am at an auction. Different equipment for different people. Each of them wanting a receipt from the auction company.

JLG · Jul 11, 2016

I like that! It's all perspective isn't it?

Traditional Farmer · Jul 11, 2016

The auctioneer is full of it,real common to see auction company people bidding on things for absentee bidders with a bunch of different numbers in their pockets.I buy for different people sometimes and used to buy for a salvage yard never had a problem with the auctioneer taking a bid from me for others.

Royse · Jul 11, 2016

I don't see that you did anything wrong but why not just put it on
your number, have your friend give you the money and save the $100?

BarnyardEngineering · Jul 12, 2016

This auctioneer was just looking for a quick $100 to put in his pocket. Most don't care as long as someone gets marked down as the buyer, and someone settles up for that buyer number.

I was gonna call him crooked but many here believe that all auctioneers are crooked to some degree.

I go to auctions all the time where the man is too "shy" to bid. Big ol' 6-foot-something dude hides behind his little 5-foot-nothing wife and pokes her in the back when she's supposed to bid. He holds the number. Auctioneer never has a problem with it.

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