Maybe someday I'll get auctions
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Topic: Maybe someday I'll get auctions
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Subject: Maybe someday I'll get auctions
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2010 at 8:54pm
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I went to Rich's auction today to bid on a slide and glider. Got there and figured the slide was too much for me so just wanted the glider. After waiting four hours with my wife in kids and after they went through around 400 manuals one by one they put the slide and glider together. These were what two of the six pictures featured on the add and they do that. There was one girls boyfriend there who wanted the slide and we wanted the glider but I never talked to him until they decided to lump them. When they did that we quickly had him bid and tried to figure out what we'd spend but it was too fast. Anyway, I don't get it. Why lump them? I can't imagine them not getting more if they would have separated them. Some guys were ticked they were going through the manuals one by one but I understood that they'd get the most money for them that way. They did a bunch of choice bids with it I think. So why lump the glider and slide? Probably wouldn't have gotten it anyway but I know the guy would've had to beat $170 to get it and he got the slide and glider for $220. The auctioneers just seemed bad. They spent four + hours going throw mostly cast off stuff and then were flying when it started to get good. I bet the auction took another three to get done. They had the equipment there to run two rings but didn't. Well at least my kids got to play on the glider for four hours and I got to meet and talk to Gary, Kenny, Will and Bill. I learned some stuff from Bill and enjoyed trying to figure out who ate more lead as kids Kenny or Me. My kids had a good time too thank God. We got home safe and I hope the others did too. So lots to be grateful for so I'll stop whining and venting and be grateful. My kids took it better than I did shame on me. Thanks for listening. |
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2010 at 10:10pm
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Prices on the tractors?
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Mojo
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2010 at 10:19pm
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Situation like that is when they should sell them seperately with an 'if'. Then they sell them together starting with what the individual pieces brought added together. If someone bids then they sell together and keep auctioning til everyone is done bidding. That's how it's usually handled around here anyway.
mojo/Mike |
Posted By: Wil M (NEIA)
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 7:05am
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The auctioneers didn't exactly do things the best did they. I don't understand why they did that either with the "jungle gym" as the auctioneer called them. It was 4 pm before they were completely done. They left a wagon load of parts until very last for some reason. I think they should have been selling the house hold items while another ring went down and did manuals and parts but I guess we weren't the auctioneers and they were the ones who got paid for doing what they did.
The CA went for 500. The D15 for around 1500, (it was very rought but ran good) The WF went for 1700. The WF had everything necessary to make a correct running WF but needed some standard WC parts. The D-17 went for around 1500 and the 45 Dual Fuel sold well. The 2 B's were around 500 to 600.
Was good to meet you Byron. Wish things would have turned out better for you on the glider.
Wil ------------- "Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain tear down what time will never give again." Anderson M Scruggs |
Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 7:15am
| What did the WC wide front go for? Auctioneers usually have a weird way of doing things. I went to one farm sale years ago as the wife as we also collect antique stuff. We were there all morning as they had four wagon loads of stuff and all the equipment sold at 12. They only got through three wagon loads and waited on the last one which had most of the good stuff till later. Then they went through the farm equipment and consigned stuff. The wife was getting very irratated but I told her to be patient. The last wagon load finished selling at 6:30 and noone was there. We cleaned up. I had the back of our pickup truck full like Sanford and son and my total bill was like $150. I couldn't get away with that with the kids today, but it was a good day that day for us. I wish I could've went yesterday but the wife had a bacholorette party all day and I figured it would be too much for a 2 and 4 year old especially as it was a 2 hour drive to get there. |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 7:28am
| Any more if I go to a auction ,I do not think ahead about how I think it should go.That way I do not get upset when they do not do what I think they should do. Makes life easyer for me .Never been to a auction where they did it the way everyone thought they should. Thanks for Sharing |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 8:17am
| I have not figured them out -- but have pretty much adopted Fred's method. Just go with the flow - win some loose some. Usually an interesting experience just watching the people and how they act. |
Posted By: Dale Hardtke
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 8:18am
| The WC wide front sold for $2000 to a individual named Johnson from Iowa. |
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 8:34am
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Yeah. I was just whining. I'm not an auction expert by any means. I've only been to around 10. I've never had my wife and kids with me though and I've never went to get something for them. All the time we're there the kids are having fun on it and talking about having it and so I think I was disappointed for them. Usually if I bid I something I figure how high I want to go and if it goes higher I say oh well. |
Posted By: Roger Mn
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 9:01am
| If Rich wasnt in the sound truck the auctioneers would not knowen what they were selling. I cam home with the rear cultavator for a B only payed 12 dallers also got a nos oil filter in a box of misc. for 1 buck. filter will fit a B or C. It was a long day and returned home around 9 oclock Roger |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 10:27am
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Anyone know what the WD45 dual fuel brought? ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: DSpears N IL
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 9:10pm
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Eldon, I believe that the LP dual fuel tractor brought $3,000. It started and ran on the LP. The tank was on the front. It was a long day. I got a couple of early lift arm clamps for the CA that has the U shaped pin that goes thru 2 holes in the long lift arms. I had to wait until the last 1/2 of the last rack to sell!
DeWayne
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Posted By: Allen Dilg
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2010 at 9:45pm
| Very slow auction. Brought the 26" gooseneck trailer ready for Bear. Had a lot of time to talk with FIENDS, bought a $ 7.50 grease gun holder. The items that I bid on someone wanted more than I did. |
Posted By: AllisTime
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 12:10am
| Got up to the auction about 10:00 looked around for a long spell and then they got threw with most all of the household items, then they started selling tractor and equipment items,bought a couple small things, then I spotted a seat frame for an H or HD3 on a wagon that was parked next to the wagon they were selling off from, but when they got threw with that wagon they left the other wagon that I and many other people were waiting at and went way down to the other end of the auction site to sell,,,to make a long story shorter that was the wagon that sold the very last thing at the auction,,I got the seat frame paid my bill and left for home,,,the good part was that I got to see and talk to a lot of good Allis people,so it was still a good day!! |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 6:36am
Well, at least you weren't overloaded on the that 26 inch gooseneck trailer! LOL
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Allen Dilg wrote:Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 7:10am
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If they lump a couple items together I will ask them to seperate them to get what I want. If you give them a decent starting bid, a good auctioneer will usualy do that. Also, it helps to get a little chatty with the auction folks before hand, then they will recognized you when you make those requests. They are there to get top dollar, the more they get the more they make so a good auctioneer should be willing to make a better deal! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Gary (sw Wis.)
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 11:17am
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I've been to a lot of sale but this one was badly run. They were all over the place, slow, and generally disorganized all dang day. I realize many of the folks there are not active farmers, but man it was a long day. To long for folks with work to do. The best part of the day was chewing the fat with other AC fans and seeing so much AC equipment. ------------- 190XT - D17 - D14 - WD45 w/loader - WD - (2)B110 - 616H - 610 - B-208 - WD with 190 Mounted Corn Picker - All Crop 60 |
Posted By: Byron WC in SW Wi
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 11:38am
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Well put Gary. Consensus seems to be long day, very slow auction, long day, badly run. It's not Ritch's fault but I'll think twice before going to another Gavin Brothers auction. And it was great to meet others again and some for the first time. |
Posted By: orangegloworm
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2010 at 3:17pm
| Anybody know what the piano went for? |