[78-L] Snipes and snails...

[David Lennick]

Leroy Van Dyke sang the "Auctioneer" song (as did Gordon Lightfoot)..the famous 
"trained" auctioneer was Speed Riggs, who was the Lucky Strike voice (even 
transcribed, on some programs like Information Please) and who made a couple of 
discs in that "Lucky Strike Presents" series. The neat one is where he does his 
spiel and then Raymond Scott imitates him musically in "Tobacco Auctioneer".

Sniping works fairly well. Not always. You can set it for 2 or 3 or 4 seconds 
before closing and the system can foul up, their site has been known to go down 
at critical moments, your bid can be refused because of an unseen condition 
imposed by the seller (no non-US bids is one that's been known to trap me, and 
I never see it) or it can just screw up. Doesn't happen often, but it happens.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- 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 
> 
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