Auction question - follow-up

So went to the auction today. Rain and cold, still a bunch of people showed. Ironically, the one item I went for, a small rock crusher, had the best bidding to the point it was auctioned off. Sadly, I didn't win. They did bring a gradall, so loading wasn't going to be an issue. I was ready, but was glad to see that machine.

So, I'm still looking for a small crusher like the picture. Any leads???????

Thanks for the responses to the original question.

How much did it finally sell for?

I think it was $1200. I figured it would be $600-$800.

If you really want something, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

I was there too. Amazing that so many people showed up. What a mudhole. Everything went for top dollar. I bought a near new Gearmore bushog for $250, it will cost me $250 to replace the missing driveshaft.

They regularly bring $1200-1500 here in PA.....More if they are a New Holland brand

Are you planning on looking for some gold, or do you have another purpose for it?

I have heard that a man will pay twice what something is worth, if he really needs it. But go to an auction and it seems that everyone is afraid that someone will laugh at them for paying what they think is too much. Well let them laugh. He didn't buy it, so why does his opinion count for so much? It is what it is worth to you, not them.
I have regretted not buying more items, than having bought what I did buy.
SDE

(quoted from post at 10:43:31 02/10/19) I have heard that a man will pay twice what something is worth, if he really needs it. But go to an auction and it seems that everyone is afraid that someone will laugh at them for paying what they think is too much. Well let them laugh. He didn't buy it, so why does his opinion count for so much? It is what it is worth to you, not them.
I have regretted not buying more items, than having bought what I did buy.
SDE

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If I am in the market for larger or hard to handle items; bale feeders, portable wind breaks etc then to me it is all about distance.

If I need to make 5 60 mile round trips to haul them home 1 at a time I can not pencil out paying much for them.

The same items at a sale a mile away I will step up my max bid quite a bit.

Bought 3 bins at a sale once and one was still half full, the wheat came with it.
Hoping to save a trip to go get an auger to unload the bin I started bidding on a small auger very similar to one I had purchased at a farm sale for $35 earlier that spring.

No idea if someone figured there was gold in that auger but the guy that bought paid just shy of $400 for it.

Sometimes too many factors for one to ever understand why some bid what they do at a sale.

Another sale I attended they were selling misc wire, a part roll of elk fencing and a few full rolls of chicken wire.
I bid it up to near what the chicken wire was worth new before I quit and let the other bidder have the lot.

I came back with a trailer after the sale to pick up my purchases, one thing I bought was a trailer to pull behind a quad or garden tractor that had been sitting next to the pile of wire.

I never did see who I was bidding against or I would have asked him what wanted out of the pile but I am guessing he saw me.

When I drove up to the trailer I had bought all of the elk fencing next to it was gone as was the buyer who I figure did not want the chicken wire as he had piled it on the trailer I bought.

Checked with the auctioneer and he said the other buyer had long since left and if I did not take the wire it would end up in the dump.

Win Win

Yeah, but then they had 10% sales tax and 12.5% buyer premium on top.

Well dang. Would have been fun to say hi!

Agreed a lot seemed high. Though, some things didn't sell, which surprised me.

Being part of a group that takes steam
power stuff out to public events and
shows what it is all about, teaching kids
and even adults, it was the perfect size
for transporting easily, crushing rock,
but also, people could put their soda
cans in, we crush them and then turn them
in for the deposit we have here in CA.

(quoted from post at 13:11:18 02/10/19) Yeah, but then they had 10% sales tax and 12.5% buyer premium on top.

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sales tax AND a 12.5 % buyers fee?? dang......

There were a few items on an on-line auction that I was bidding on the other day. It was sales tax plus an 18% buyers fee. Needless to say I didn't bid a very high dollar
amount.

I'm with you on that,there is another out there.

Sure there is, just got to find it.

Yep and prices were still stupid.

Generally speaking the more nasty the weather at an auction the higher things sell.The exception is hot stagnant weather in the high 90's by the afternoon much of the crowd has cleared out.

Patsdeere - Unless you want a true ANTIQUE Jaw Crusher; if you have basic mechanical & metal working skills, and are able to Weld, it's not that hard to make one out of scrap metal. I've made a couple of them - a small one powered with a 6 HP Harbor Freight gas engine, and a much larger one mounted on a 16 ft. trailer and powered with a 4 Cyl. gas engine & Transmission that I got out of a car at an Auto Dismantlers.

Doc

That did cross my mind, but something old and original would look so much better than anything I would build (from parts or scratch) or anything modern.