Official LOTG ending time contest ( with prize)

[almostdone]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

Official closing time, per Al, was a numbing 5:29 am EST
Mrvstr wins by missing the mark by 2 minutes .
Almostdone also missed by 2 min, but mrvstr closest bid came in first.
That was fun, maybe do again this spring/ summer

Crap. I meant 5:27 and 58 seconds! Oh well. So close but so far. Congrats to The winner and thanks again for the contest.
Drew

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Is there a way of knowing with out Al telling us? Based off the final notice email it was between 5 and 5:30.

Al contacted me that the official closing time was 5:29

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

Official closing time, per Al, was a numbing 5:29 am EST
Mrvstr wins by missing the mark by 2 minutes .
Almostdone also missed by 2 min, but mrvstr closest bid came in first.
That was fun, maybe do again this spring/ summer

Thanks Dave. Much appreciated as a diversion from the bad decisions many collectors made in the other thread.

Now about that 530am time to close. How many of us over 50 yrs old stayed up? I love Al and the auctions but please close them earlier. Tell people it's going to close at 3am on that night....close it at 315 and be done with it....just a suggestion..... The older I get the less I like all night auctions.....but I do understand. I fell out at around 1am or so CST......

[Snapolit1]

I placed my bets and went to sleep at midnight. No way I am sitting up hitting the refresh button all night. And a little surprised there weren't more emails about imminent closing, etc.
Having said that, I am very happy with the pieces I got, and it feels nice having dealt with what everyone says is one of the good guys. The slime surrounding this industry as a whole is starting to get to me.

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by Leon

Thanks Dave. Much appreciated as a diversion from the bad decisions collectors many made in the other thread.

Now about that 530am time to close. How many of us over 50 yrs old stayed up? I love Al and the auctions but please close them earlier. Tell people it's going to close at 3am on that night....close it at 315 and be done with it....just a suggestion..... The older I get the less I like all night auctions.....but I do understand. I fell out at around 1am or so CST......

I kept setting my phone alarm. Admittedly it was painful .
At 315 CST I finally just put in a max bid ( which held up well below it) and called it s night. While NOT a lot my lot closing guy...ill admit I like my sleep

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Oh shit, thanks to this thread..i ran thru the auction and must of missed something i been looking for a while back. Not sure how i missed it.

Well, i placed my bid i felt comfortable with and went to sleep around 9pm.
Woke up this a.m. and found out i had WON!!!

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Well, i placed my bid i felt comfortable with and went to sleep around 9pm.
Woke up this a.m. and found out i had WON!!!

That's the way to do it! I'm way too neurotic

[Stonepony]

Any thoughts on whether LOTG and Goldin ending same night had any effect on hammer prices?
What time did Goldin close? I didn't follow them

[Joe_G.]

It was tough for me to stay up until closing, I placed max bid at 4:17am (Eastern) at several increments above my leading bid and lost it at 5:08am. I just wasn't meant to have that Twitchell GQ (wasn't first time - I was high underbidder in Feb. 2003 on eBay). Maybe next time.

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

Any thoughts on whether LOTG and Goldin ending same night had any effect on hammer prices?
What time did Goldin close? I didn't follow them

Their sgc50/4 Mantle #311 sold for 54,900
They had some nice t206 Cobbs i was looking at.
Despite some 'altered' pieces, they still got good money.
Big ticket items i saw was the Cobb Tin for 10,370
and the large lot of t206s (333) get 24,400
and the Clemente RC psa8 getting 58,560 WOW!!!!

[Jason]

So what time did the auction close as I was outbid on an item at 5:21am.
Nevermind I see it now 5:29am

[Bpm0014]

Cool contest and congrats to Johnny! I was in the poker room until about 6am and had time to follow all of this. After 5 hours of no bids on my lots, someone tried to throw a bid in at 4am-ish. Luckily I was still wide awake. I managed to win half a Joe Tinker autograph for $200 and the Art Fletcher sweater endorsement for $150. Great great great auction!

[mrvster]

THANKS SO MUCH!!! THAT WAS SUPER NICE AND SUPER FUN!!!

really great of you......thanks again!

[mrvster]

THANKS TO DAVE! thank you sooooooo much for the cards!!!!!! YOU ARE AWESOME