Chicago Area Mega Auction 8/26- 8/27

Bkrum · #1 08-26-2017, 06:58 PM

I was there for a while and my sense was that good deals were not easy to find. Mainstream racks, wax, cases, etc were bid right up to the BCE buy list and some of the junkier wax brought prices that seemed a bit aggressive. Tons of publications, postcards, paper items that I'm sure you could do better on. There is soooooo much stuff that prices might weaken throughout the weekend but I didn't sense bidders were shy about buying over and over.
The sets were available for viewing throughout the week so I'm sure potential buyers did a LOT of research before bidding.

NATCARD · #2 08-26-2017, 08:59 PM

From what I heard from a bidder there today is there is part 2 tomorrow and parts 3,4,5 to come in September and October. WOW!

quinnsryche · #3 08-26-2017, 10:21 PM

There is also some kind of stupid bidding process involved that drags it out. Say there is a lot of 10 signed baseballs, you bid $20 and win. That bid allows you to buy one or more balls from the lot at $20 ea. If you buy 2, then the other eight are then auctioned again under the same process. So a lot of ten baseballs may actually take 10 separate tries to sell the lot. That is about the DUMBEST scenario I have ever heard. No wonder it's going to take a week to sell everything.

mechanicalman · #4 08-26-2017, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NATCARD

From what I heard from a bidder there today is there is part 2 tomorrow and parts 3,4,5 to come in September and October. WOW!

Do you have a vested interest in this auction?

Rich Klein · #5 08-27-2017, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mechanicalman

Do you have a vested interest in this auction?

No, that person probably talked to someone who checked the web site, as I did just to see how many auctions there would be.

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