[78-L] Snipes and snails...

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Not at all...I often get sniped,  but if my bid was higher than the snipe,
> I still win the record.  It's the matter of being willing to bid with some
> sense of the current market,  and not what one wishes the market were.
>
Except "snipes" by definition beat your bid by the required minimum...
just in time that you don't have the chance to raise your offer! Yes,
IIRC, you can set up your bid to automatically increase if beaten,
up to a maximum YOU set...

But I MUCH prefer the typical 78 mail auction...where one sends an
offer of wotever one decides to pay for the 78 in question...and waits
to see if that was the highest "bid!" And, yes, some mail auctions will
take new bids by phone...after telling you if you are "high bidder" and
if not what the high bid is/was! That turns the process into more of an
"auction" (though the interval between bids depended on how quickly
the seller answered his/her/its phone...?!)!

Meanwhile, I miss the old "physical" auctions...which always had
trained auctioneers, who sounded just like the guy who cut the
"Auctioneer" 78 (IIRC he was a trained auctioneer...?!)!

Once bought a 1936 State Farm Road Atlas for $10 at an auction!
It was in their ad/pre-notice...and that was why I went!

...stevenc