Re: About live/online auctions?

Posted by rrlund on May 04, 2023 at 09:37:59 from (173.225.203.221):

In Reply to: Re: About live/online auctions? posted by Blackhole49 on May 04, 2023 at 07:30:10:

Let me tell a little story about a few famous shills that I knew. Most folks knew that if either of these guys was bidding, there was at least a 50% chance they were bidding things up or bidding them in. A neighbor had cancer and had a farm auction. He must have told both of them that he'd changed his mind about selling his skid steer after he'd listed it. It was pretty rough. There might have been one or two legitimate bids at the start, but these two got locked in and must not have known they were bidding against each other. They ran that thing up to four times what any sane person would have given. The owner kept his skid steer, but it sure was comical watching those two going at it and not knowing they were bidding against each other.

A few years later, one of the shills had an auction of his own. He had the other one raising bids for him. The one having the sale owed me some money for some calves and I was going to get it back in merchandise. I'd told him that ahead of time. There was a lawn tractor that I wanted. The other shill was bidding on it, so I quit. He got it. The owner came over to me and said ''I got it for you''. I don't remember what the price was, something like $125 or some such thing. Anyway, a few minutes later, he came over to me and said he'd have to have $200 for it. I was ticked, but I figured it was the only way I'd get my money, so I told him I'd do it.

I loaded it up and brought it home. The next night, the other shill drove in while I was eating supper. He walked right in to the house yelling ''Where's that thieving Randy Lund that stole my lawn mower?''. I could tell he was serious. Apparently he'd bought it for himself and not for me and the owner thought if he offered him the difference, he'd be happy with it. Problem was, he must not have even talked to him about it, he just told him that I took it. I told him the whole story about him owing me money and telling me that he ''got it for me''. Well, that took the wind out of his sails a little bit, but he still wanted his lawn mower and I was back to the first guy still owing me $200.

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