Goldin Auctions April 5th event is NOW OPEN

[Goldin Auctions]

Hello all.
Our April 5th auction features something for everyone in pre war cards.
From the high end with the T206 Wagner to nice 19th century cards, T206's, Goudeys, and everything in between. Buyers premium is only 10% and credit cards are now accepted up to 5000
Thank you and good luck to everyone!

http://goldinauctions.com/catalog.aspx

[sports-rings]

Hi Ken,

Congratulations on another fine auction with lots of great items!

However, I have one question: I'm not a big fan of auctions that go more than three weeks. I see you have stretched your latest auction to about 5 weeks. Is such a long duration really necessary?

When I go shopping at a store, I sometimes will put something in my shopping cart. As I continue shopping, by the time I reach the checkout, I sometimes experience "buyers remorse" and the item I had to have, no longer seems to be the good fit or value I thought it was fifteen minutes earlier.

I wonder if that could happen in a five week auction and perhaps bidders enthusiasm will wane during such a long auction?

[kengoldin]

Hi michael
We had intended to close the auction march 22nd, opening Feb 25th. Unfortunately, with the production of the catalog we did not feel it would get in most people's hands in time to allow them a relaxed review. So we changed the date to march 29th, and actually announced march 29th.
The day after announcing it, we realized it was Easter Weekend (which unlike Christmas, moves dates every year) Out of respect for Easter weekend and not wanting to take people away from their time with their families, we pushed it back to April 5th.
We could have opted to simply not open it up until march, but since we had announced feb 25th, we decided to keep it.
Normally 3 1/2 weeks is the norm i am going to try to set, and this one is the exception not the rule. We will be sure to make sure everyone involved does not lose interest or forget!
thanks for the post, and i agree with you...will have to just deal with it on this one occassion.

[wolf441]

Great selection of items Ken!!

[sports-rings]

Ken,

Those issues and your solutions make a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining all the factors that go into scheduling an auction.

[esquiresports]

Did you really have to start accepting credit cards?! I'm in trouble. Hah. Good luck with the auction. Looks like an incredible lineup.

[conor912]

my lord...a 40 day auction?! remind me in 35.