It was a super nice day today so I went to a consignment auction at the stock yard. One auction ring,no lunch wagon. It honest to God,took 2 1/2 hours to sell 4 jewelry wagons. Another 45 minutes to sell one short junk row. Next junk row had a couple of small trailer loads of stuff. It was 1:15 and I couldn't take it anymore. My blood sugar was crashing and it looked like it would be at least another hour and a half before they got to the big stuff. I left without seeing anything of value sell. Nice day for a drive is all I can say.
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Atleast you left with all your money. Didn't even get to buy a burger!
It was a beautiful, bright, sunny day today, and I spent most of it sitting inside because I had to work.
It was a beautiful, bright, sunny day today, and I spent most of it sitting inside because I had to work.
Over in Rogers, Ohio, is an equipment auction. once a month, in the middle of the week. A friend told me to go there, i could probably pick up some used lawn mowers for cheap, so off i went, to enjoy the auction.
WELL!
The auctioneer talked so fast, he was 3 spaces further on down the row before i even knew it!
I'm used to auctioneers who wanted everybody to have a chance to buy, not just the auctioneers shills and friends! With that, i went home! Disappointed, to say the least!
WELL!
The auctioneer talked so fast, he was 3 spaces further on down the row before i even knew it!
I'm used to auctioneers who wanted everybody to have a chance to buy, not just the auctioneers shills and friends! With that, i went home! Disappointed, to say the least!
glennster
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ya gotta come down here to our consignment auctions, they run 4 auction trucks, follow a time schedule pretty tight. kendall county is the first, then the grundy county, next week is leland, the first two are fund raisers for each fairgrounds, leland is put on by the loins club. 4h kids do the food, dogs, burgers, pulled pork samiches !!! good eats too. here is the link
leland consignment auction
leland consignment auction
Goose
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I was at an auction once where I swear they were selling fence posts one at a time. There was, however, an IH two point, 8' blade I wanted so I stuck it out. (And bought the blade.)
I'm going to a huge annual consignment auction tomorrow. According to the sale bill, they'll have six rings going at times.
I'm going to a huge annual consignment auction tomorrow. According to the sale bill, they'll have six rings going at times.
I know what you mean about slow auctions. I"ve been to auctions where they pretty much ruined everything. Four or five hours spent on wagons full of junk while it is raining out. That drove away a lot of buyers and meant that a lot of the machinery didn"t sell because the minimums weren"t met.
To give credit where it is due, I"ve been impressed with the Le Sueur Pioneer Power consignment auction for the past several years. No household junk that I"ve seen. Even the small stuff are tractor parts and tractor manuals, and they move pretty good. That"s my idea of how to do it right.
To give credit where it is due, I"ve been impressed with the Le Sueur Pioneer Power consignment auction for the past several years. No household junk that I"ve seen. Even the small stuff are tractor parts and tractor manuals, and they move pretty good. That"s my idea of how to do it right.
There is an auctioneer here who does just a few sales a year and most of the time only one of them has any equipment. Mostly just does household and houses. Any way I went to a sale of his about a year ago looking at a ford 9700. There was about 4 equipment jockies there looking at it at the start of the sale. I s*** you not it took them 4 and a half hours to sell one wagon load of junk and a garage full of junk and then the house before selling the tractor. It sold for about half what the grandson thought it should and was have'n a fit. He wanted to know why I did not keep bidding and let the other guy have it so cheap and I said I figured he make enough off selling all them $3 shovels that he didn't need any more. (didn't even tell him granddad's tractor was junk).
Don't think I will be going to any more sales put on by this guy.
On the other end, there is a guy here who holds a few sales a year and I have seen him not take $500 bids on a tractor. He stoped a sale one time and said that if he had a $4,000 dollar bid on a tractor and you wanted it you had to come up with atleast $5000 and not waste his time.
Dave
Don't think I will be going to any more sales put on by this guy.
On the other end, there is a guy here who holds a few sales a year and I have seen him not take $500 bids on a tractor. He stoped a sale one time and said that if he had a $4,000 dollar bid on a tractor and you wanted it you had to come up with atleast $5000 and not waste his time.
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I love auctions like that since I always carry lunch and a cooler full of water/fruit juice I can stay all day and after the impatient folks have headed back home to do something important like watch TV I buy up the bargains.Chill out life is too short to get torn up about the speed stuff sells at an auction.
Anonymous-0
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I used to go to wrecked car auctions out in Denver. They could sell over 600 vehicles in half a day. The auctioneer was so good he would be asking for bids in Mexican when they bid and English when a white guy bid against them going back and forth.
RBnSC
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I know what you mean I love to go to an auction too. The thing down here is they start so high to try and hook a somebody and everybody knows it you just have to wait till they finally ask some one to put it on the money and then start just such a waste of time. I really enjoy going to State and DNR auctions they don't fool around they just start off telling you it does not matter where you start only where it finishes. They ask for the first bid and go from there. Then they give ample time before dropping the hammer then move on. We had a really big auction company start up here was going great they would draw an International crowd. They had a huge construction equipment auction that lasted two days after it was over one of the head guys took off with all the money. I heard this week it was over 100 million $ and He only served three years when they caught Him.
Ron
Ron
Where was the auction? I saw a trailer go by today with a green chisel plow and an old rusty gravity box on there. Told my cousin there must have been an auction somewhere today. I thought it was a lot colder out than it looked. Still had frozen ground on the north sides of all the buildings! Sun can be deceiving sometimes.
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One needs to remember that the auctioneeer is working for the seller and not for your pleasure.
He's not doing much of a job for the seller if all the serious buyers get disgusted and leave before getting to the larger items. The trinket buyers are typically different people than the machinery buyers, and you want to keep the machinery buyers around, because thats where the money is.
Local consignment auction has a pretty good procedure- starts on the small stuff and junk at 9:30 AM- then promptly at noon, goes out and does the tractors and vehicles; then one auctioneer goes back to the small stuff, another starts on the farm machinery, both go til they're done. Seems to keep everybody reasonably happy.
Local consignment auction has a pretty good procedure- starts on the small stuff and junk at 9:30 AM- then promptly at noon, goes out and does the tractors and vehicles; then one auctioneer goes back to the small stuff, another starts on the farm machinery, both go til they're done. Seems to keep everybody reasonably happy.
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