Auction Scumbags

if something like that happens again you can use a chevy key or a master lock key.they will work in most bobcat ignitions

Those guys were able to answer questions from the honest folks (95% of the crowd). They also kept the dishonest 5% of folks away, and prevented them from screwing with the machinery.

A) Be annoying, arrogant old UGLY goats who bellow and bark at fellow nice, gentlemanly bidders

B) Ride their fat a$$es around in a golf cart and yelling at people trying to get them to move out of the way.

C) climb up tractors, poke around on every control, pull spark plug wires, complain, pi$$ and moan about this and that AND THEN BID ON IT.

D) sit on a tractor as if it's theirs EVEN after a gentleman wins it!!!... >:0

E) Interrupt the auctioneer with jokes that are not funny, often perverted.

F) push good people around, and strutting their smart-a$$-ness around the site.

and finally,

G) Yell and curse at you in front of your young cousins while bidding.

Can you tell...just tell, that I don't like these low-class people?

I HAD to rant here.

I was once looking over an S-10 Blazer, and while poking around under the hood I found the hose to the vacuum solenoid that engages the 4wd was pulled off and stuck behind a wiring harness. Someone obviously wanted to buy it and then take it to arbitration, claiming the 4wd didn't work. I replaced the hose and the 4wd engaged fine. Turned out I bought the vehicle and made decent money off of it. And that's routine stuff.

But, at a place like the Omaha Auto Auction with 5 rings running at the same time, the potential for shenanigans is mind-boggling. I gave up on dealer auctions after I found out I could buy "fixer-upper" vehicles out of the classified ads and make more money.

And it's not just machinery and vehicles. After my mother-in-law died, we had an auction that included some antique dishes and glassware. There was a particular cut glass vase, worth about $350, on a table with like items. Three times I saw a lady (?) bury it in a box of junk worth maybe $5. After the third time, I timed it so I put the vase back where it belonged just before the box of junk was sold. The auctioneer was a family friend, so I assume he was clean.

Had a guy walk up to me at an auction n say boy you dont want that darn truck listen how bad it misses..... same thing he was hid in back bidding on it like crazy..... ...I bought it and nosed arrund n discovered (what I already suspected) half the plug wires had been switched to the wrong cap towers,,,,, ,,,,fixed that n she ran PERFECT

If caught they oughta be banned form auctions for life

John T