What happened with Legendary Auctions?

[scottglevy]

I rarely slam people or auction houses in public. But I have to say a similar thing happened to my father Hank and I many months ago with two T205 drum cards. We were notified that we were the winners of two lots then told at a later date that we won neither.

While I am not prepared to cry outright fraud, I feel that the situation was handled excessively poorly and I have refused to participate in any Legendary Auction since that time.

Notwithstanding Coaches Corner, Legendary is my least favorite auction house.

SGL

[Matt]

Originally Posted by scottglevy

We were notified that we were the winners of two lots then told at a later date that we won neither.

Scott - can you clarify a bit - were you the high bidder when the auction ended?

[scottglevy]

The exact details are a little blurry....but something very close to this happened:

We bid on two T205 drum cards and were being shown as high bid with the auction closed on one of Legendary screens. I believe that Legendary had a '30 minute' time window for topping bids. Had someone outbid us during the course of that auction which we happened to be carefully watching, I certainly would have placed another bid and possibly several other bids. But it showed us as the winner with the time expired.

I'm unclear as to how Legendary determined that we did not win those lots. Their explanation did not appear to make sense to me and a vague "we had technical problems" that night didn't seem like a very good answer either.

So that is more or less my story.

[calvindog]

Scott, "technical problems" is a great fallback answer for great guys. I'm guessing another great guy just wanted the cards more than you.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by scottglevy

...it showed us as the winner with the time expired.

I'm unclear as to how Legendary determined that we did not win those lots. Their explanation did not appear to make sense to me and a vague "we had technical problems" that night didn't seem like a very good answer either.

Scott - I would be furious.