[78-L] Bear in mind...

[Taylor Bowie]

 DL wisely pointed out:

> Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you. Don't worry, I 
> don't
> have any more wise sayings.

> Actually these are "traditional" auctions, and this is the way record 
> auctions
> operated for many years, since you don't know what the next highest bid 
> was.
> And in the Hawthorns' case, you find out how much you lost by since the 
> "items
> you didn't win" are enumerated in your invoice (no crying towels 
> included).


Yes,  I know it's "traditional" but that system is still not a true auction, 
where bidders raise each other or where "the house" does the raising for 
you.  If David bids a dollar and Taylor bids five dollars,  I pay maybe a 
buck-fifty on a real auction but I pay the full five on the "traditional" 
auction.  I'm usually all in favor of  "tradition" but not in this case!

My first record  "auction" was from a November 1965 issue of Record 
Research.  I won three records:

Varsity Eight (Cummins/Radlach) Oriole of You're Driving Me Crazy   75 
cents.

Jane Gray Harmony (w/ Rube Bloom) of Say It Again   50 cents.

And my big purchase,  the Armstrong Okeh of Hear Me Talkin' To Ya b/w Tight 
Like This for the staggering sum of $1.75.

I think the shipping was fifty cents.  BTW I still have all three of those 
copies of the records.


Taylor B