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Posted By: scott brockelman
As of this evening, 6-25-2008 ALL consignors have been mailed checks for payment in full. We are very happy to have gotten payment out in what we believe is one of the fastest payouts among any auction house. |
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Posted By: Jason
Congrats on what looks to be a well executed first auction. |
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Posted By: Rawn Hill
Very nice auction, a great selection!!! |
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Posted By: Jimmy
Leon and Scott, |
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Posted By: scott brockelman
We would like to have all items by the end of August or very early September, but with our internet format we can take them as late as mid-September and still get them in the auction. |
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Posted By: MikeU
Where are all the articles/publicity stating that. despite the econcomy, B&L Auctions smashed all their previous sales records with this auction? I hope B&L does not think they can throw a banner ad up on NET54 and that is all the marketing they need to do. On second thought, that would be a great sales pitch when selling banner ad's to companies. Hey, NET54 gets so much traffic, all you have to do is throw up a banner add and your will break auction records, just ask B&L. |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
I wish you guys all the best for continued success. It takes a bit of risk and more than a smidgen of audacity to start up an auction house in these most critical of times. If you continue on the same, honest, customer-friendly route, I surmise that you both will receive your just rewards. It's also refreshing to see ANY auction house so frequently willing to seek out the opinions of the common man. Way back when, George Burns (the comedian, as opposed to the two ballplayers of the same name) said something to the effect of, "All the cab drivers and waiters should be President--maybe then something might actually get done in Washington!". Same goes here. Empires crumble when egos inflate. |
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Posted By: Brandon Cacek
Congrats to both Leon and Scott for running a great auction! Email me some specifics, and I'll try to put together a press release for you. |
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Posted By: leon
We thought it very important to pay our consignors as fast as possible and let folks know we are understanding of what is important in regards to their support of our auction. |
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Posted By: Jim Clarke
When I click on your banner at the top it takes me to the man on the rock ebay auctions??? What was the final hammer price of your last auction? If this is not public info no biggie. I just like to see how comnpanies grow. JC |
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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth
Wow!!! Talk about two extremes in the hobby. Yeah someone who is looking at bidding in Leon and Scott's auction probably would not want to be bidding in Man on The Rock's auction. |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Leon, |
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
'This isn't meant to be negative', they are generally NEGATIVE people...........just another glaring case of this in the post above. Obviously Jim continues to grind his axe, so if that's all he has to grind, que sera sera....... |
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Posted By: Tony Andrea
As I've said before, catalogs are nice but they always seem to just end up as un-needed reading material in the crapper. My wife says I spend enough time in there as it is so on line viewing is just fine for me. As far as the no bids go on a few select items Jim mentions. All I can speak for is my consignment I had with B&L auctions. It sold for more than I expected and the opening bid was very minimal. No complaints here and I will definitely consign with them again in the future. |
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Posted By: Dave F
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Dave, |
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Posted By: leon
Jc- our auction is public record and will be kept on line so everyone can see. I think our total was about 125k and we hope to grow it over time. Thanks for your participation in it too. We really appreciate it. |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Yes, please keep in mind that the large catalogues issued by the big guys wind up costing them over $100,000 once all is said and done. As with Jim, I too enjoy having a catalogue I can hold in my hands and take with me wherever I go. The flipside to that, however, is the fact that more information on each lot can be found online (especially the extra pics/zoom-in features). Jim, if I understand you correctly, you state that you have never utilized any of the online features offered by the various auction houses? This is very difficult to believe, but that's how your post came across. If this is indeed the case, you're missing out on so much. Catalogue-perusing is a great for "separating the wheat from the chaff", but you are going into each sale with cataracts over your eyes if this is the only step taken. (Again, I hope something in your post got lost in translation--I can't see anybody in this day and age not using online resources, at the very least as a final precautionary step). |
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
at 12.5% buyers commision on 125K, you got $15,625 commission. $7500 catalog eats 1/2 of that. There's obviously no way that additional bids would have covered the $7500 that a catalog would have cost. But....is it better to invest more money up front, hoping that down the road you'll get the bids that will make up the difference? Maybe so, maybe not. Funny how Prof. Crandoll can be here on a whipstitch to respond to any posts yet he didn't see the banner for B&L. Hmm.....sounds like an axe to me. I have a feeling that even if you had an obscure common PSA9 1964 Topps that would sell for $9000 that Jim needed that he would likely not bid in the auction. I could be wrong about that but obviously Jim's not bidding on 19th century rarities in PSA4................easy to stand back and fire salvos when your intent to bid is zero. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Leon is correct that my catalog, including design and printing, costs about $7500. And while I think it's a good thing, it really does make a significant dent in my profit margin, and I've debated whether I want to continue it. |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Jodi, |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Jim- every auction house wants to carry more high grade material. Nobody turns it away. Getting it is the hard part. |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Dr. Bobbitt, |
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
Jim......if he's ever bid...... |
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
find online auctions intimidating, but if you bid in ebay auctions, all the auctions you mentioned, which I bid in as well, have online presence that is just as easy to bid on, provide similar search functions to ebay and typically offer better, more detailed pictures--ESPECIALLY on your PSA8/9/10 cards than what you can see in a catalog picture that is typically 1-2 inches big. Plus, there's a BUNCH of post-50 guys here that bid in online auctions. |
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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Jim, |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Tom, |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Whats a debit card?--hey I think of myself as young still. |
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Posted By: leon
debit card |
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Posted By: Dave F
Kind of like online vs a catalog Jim. You know. No float...no fluff. |
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Posted By: T206Collector
I love my prewar ebay catalog that I get every month. |
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Posted By: Rob D.
Jim, |
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Posted By: leon
Thanks again for the kind words.....Scott and I are discussing when our Fall auction will be. We know it will be October time frame....probably early. Another thing that was brought up via email was "what about the option of a pdf catalog?" It was our inention to have one this time but it just didn't work out. We hope to have a pdf option for the next one, AND when we get to 1000+ lots I will convince Scott to do a nice fancy catalog. Hey, we like nice big catalogs too. I don't have to tell ya'll about good reading material in the morning |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Shipping errors? |
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Posted By: JimCrandell
Rob, |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Jim, you're crazy not to use the online auction sites. While I like getting a catalogue, the scans online are sometimes huge -- you can see detail that you'd never notice in a catalogue picture. |
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Posted By: Michael Steele
Scott, Leon, |
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Posted By: Joe D.
"AND when we get to 1000+ lots I will convince Scott to do a nice fancy catalog. Hey, we like nice big catalogs too. I don't have to tell ya'll about good reading material in the morning " |
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Posted By: Alan
Mazel Tov on your 1st auction. This calls for a |
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Posted By: Rich Klein
And will be consigning more lots in the future |
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