auction page on facebook

Just to let everyone know, I caught guys bidding for others on that site. So they got pissed called me a liar and booted a few of us. Just a heads up to  the AC guys here, you can be bidding against yourself on there.

No I didnt have been sick as a dog in bed for 3 days.

HUh? What do you mean people bidding for others?

Charlie175 wrote: HUh? What do you mean people bidding for others? Prices do tend to go high on there

Has different names in various parts of the country, "shill"  bidders, "bid runnning"  "running up the bid"  He is talking about owners, their representatives, sometime the auctioneers them selves who is bid on an item for the sole purpose of running up the price.

If the Shill is the high bid then they are stuck with the item right? So I guess it just gets relisted?

I agree with what you guys are saying ,it happens all the time at every auction you go to. But when you catch them at it, and they call you a liar. I dont take to well to being called a liar.

ILGLEANER wrote: I agree with what you guys are saying ,it happens all the time at every auction you go to. But when you catch them at it, and they call you a liar. I dont take to well to being called a liar.

what auction site are we talking about? :)

Ya, what auction site are we talking about on Face book?

Allis Chalmers and Agco free auction page
I have been happy on the items I have sold and I have purchased a couple items also.

Ive sold on there a while now. Ive had nothing but good experience. The guys that run it seem to have a limited tolerance for drama, and that's good. the only time Ive seen them upset is when people try to deal outside of the listing or on the side. Ive not personally ran into any problems on the items Ive bought there either. I like what they've done, and the prices seem to do well, and Ive yet to run into someone not following thru on paying.

Edited by oldorangeiron - 28 Dec 2016 at 7:40am

Where U find it is where u buy it many cases ,like any thing else if you do not look other places u do not know what is out there .

So when something sells for real good price its a CRIME !!! all the sudden ,and when u feel u did not get enough for what u sell ,maybe u did not try to sell anywhere else or do some home work on it .

   Some times when someone is in my showroom they ask ,WOW where did u ever find something like that ,I never seen one. U are lucky to have that . I say NO when I seen it , I liked it so I bought it .Luck did not buy it for me .

If u do not pay u do not get. Everyone has things they like and some one else dose not like it .They do not have to like it ,it's not theirs.

oldorangeiron wrote: Ive sold on there a while now. Ive had nothing but good experience. The guys that run it seem to have a limited tolerance for drama, and that's good. the only time Ive seen them upset is when people try to deal outside of the listing or on the side. Ive not personally ran into any problems on the items Ive bought there either. I like what they've done, and the prices seem to do well, and Ive yet to run into someone not following thru on paying.

Fred in Pa wrote: Not everything is for everyone !!!!!

Fred,you're wise beyond yer years!

A couple weeks ago I posted "It's all my fault" about a buddy buying an Oliver 88 in MN for $3000.  Since then he has been in touch with the seller and picked up the tractor yesterday. First off the seller told him he was charging $50 per week starting the day after the auction.  Ron told him that according to the Big Iron rules he could only charge $25 after two weeks.  Seller said "I don't care, $50."  Ron bought a better pickup to haul the tractor, I don't think that's my fault, by the way, and left for MN on Monday.  Picked up the tractor, of course the battery was dead.  The seller at first said "Not my problem." but then hooked up a battery charger. The tractor is so wide that it barely fit on the trailer and the seller didn't help load it or offer to help narrow the wheels, but as Ron was winching it on came out and said come in the shop.  Ron went in the shop.  The seller was sitting in a chair with a bunch of manuals for the tractor on his lap.  He was near tears, pissed that the tractor sold so cheap.  Ron apologized to him for the way things went but told him he bid on it in good faith and had no idea if he would get it with his last bid.  The seller admitted it wasn't Ron's fault but told him he had put hundreds of hours and dollars into the tractor and regretted putting it on the auction.  Ron is a retired ER Doc and told me he was concerned for the seller as he is very overweight and doesn't look healthy for a mid 70's man.  He gave him the books and told him he better get on the road before the storm arrives.  Ron finished chaining down and left.
Now I'm really feeling bad that I even mentioned the auction, but I guess if Ron hadn't bid on the tractor it might have sold for even less.  A few years ago I bought my 8030 at a friends auction and was going to quit bidding when Ron told me he would put a $1000 in toward it (he was still working then).  I offered to pay him back but he wouldn't accept it.  Maybe I'll try to talk him into sending the Oliver seller the money. 
Always appreciate feedback from you all.


Edited by JohnCO - 28 Dec 2016 at 11:22pm