Goodwin Pickups

[barrysloate]

Other than one non-paying bidder in my last auction, I have had every lot paid for for years, comprising perhaps 8-10 consecutive auctions. I never even thought of that as an issue. As such, I am extremely skeptical of auctions that claim a large number of renegers.

[Rob D.]

And I guess we all need to take REA's Barry Sloate's comments about non-paying bidder counts as gospel....give me a break!

Edited to add: Someone — one of the whales, I think — downloaded a virus to my computer and disabled my sarcasm font.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Other than one non-paying bidder in my last auction, I have had every lot paid for for years, comprising perhaps 8-10 consecutive auctions. I never even thought of that as an issue. As such, I am extremely skeptical of auctions that claim a large number of renegers.

Only great guys have renegers.

[calvindog]

Wow, Goodwin must have "sold" that T205 lot during his July auction and then minutes later the "winner" told him that he would refuse to pay, thus permitting Goodwin to pack up the set and take it to the National just days later and sell it card by card. Yeah, that's the ticket.

So Barry and REA have all their winners pay but poor Bill has renegger after renegger. Just his poor, dumb luck. Good thing his luck rebounds when he sells PSA 8 commons for 2-3x what they have sold for the dozens of times before and after his auctions.

[calvindog]

1956 Topps Luis Aparicio PSA 8: 42 sales over the past three years...highest 'sale' was $822 by Goodwin right after the economy tanked last November. Of the 41 other sales, only twice did the card break $500, once at $515 and once at $565.

1965 Topps Harmon Killebrew, PSA 8: 64 sales over the past three years, Goodwin sold the card twice -- and had the top two "realized" prices.

[Peter_Spaeth]

The innocent explanations are obvious ... I just don't know what they are.

[botn]

If Bill had cards out for direct sale that were in previous auctions who was told by Bill that the reason he has them at his table were due to bidders not paying?

I met a few collectors at the National at his table who had their own material for sale at his table.

[bigfish]

Well said. It appears a few members are on a witch hunt. Not sure why the axe is grinding but I guess they have their reasons.

Red Sox won tonight!

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by bigfish

Well said. It appears a few members are on a witch hunt. Not sure why the axe is grinding but I guess they have their reasons.

Um, yeah, the grinding axe being I don't like getting ripped off by crooked auctioneers. I'm funny that way. Didn't like it with Mastro and I don't like it here either. Unlike you, I don't have a financial or personal relationship with Bill so spare me the fake outrage.

By the way, Doug Allen just walked past my computer screen, saw the 62 HR leaders auction results, and blushed.

[botn]

Jeff,

Do you bid in Goodwin's auctions? If it is your belief that certain auction houses are ripping you off (your words) then I am curious what motivates you to bid with them.