Watching the Legend 45 auction tonight - I really like the pace!

Lakesammman

1st time ever watching a Legend auction, for a variety of reasons.

I really like the pace - no begging for cut bids (as they aren't allowed), silly jokes, etc.

Would like to see other auction houses do the same.

humanssuck

Would be even nicer if people would stop bidding on the coins i wanted....

keyman64

They didn’t have anything that I couldn’t live without this time. I’m looking forward to seeing the offerings in 46.

Lakesammman

I'm just enjoying the entertainment.....

scotty4449

I picked up the 1853-O Arrows & Rays half for a great price. I am pretty excited to be adding this to my type set.

Lakesammman

Congrats! It's always exciting to add a cool coin, especially for a reasonable price.

I was bidding on 6 lots but, like many have said, I was the underbidder on all of them ......

scotty4449

Better luck next time @Lakesammman! I am also very used to being the underbidder, but managed to get lucky twice in 2 weeks after a very long dry spell.

ricko

I used to attend live auctions (not coins). I was always amazed at the scent when mental testosterone took over. Bids would often exceed what one could buy the product for on the market. Cheers, RickO

tokenpro

And there is the other extreme as well...

At a very recent five session auction where each session starts in the morning and runs well into the evening I was waiting for one group lot, the only lot in the session where I had serious interest. The auction is live & also runs on 3 or 4 streams with bidding overtures to each on on seemingly every lot + inside jokes + personal slants on history + reading the lot descriptions from the podium.

I waited patiently through a long and very slow part of the session (there's no way to estimate timing) when two lots before my lot is to come up the auctioneer picks up a guitar and proceeds to sing a cowboy song. To be fair, the lyrics were good , the voice was adequate & the guitar work was decent, but come on! This was not the first time for song nor do I think it will be the last and they certainly can run their auction any way they wish. All I can say is that the overall approach and time investment considerably limits my active (and to a point, passive) participation. Yes, I did win the lot.

messydesk

@tokenpro said:
And there is the other extreme as well...

At a very recent five session auction where each session starts in the morning and runs well into the evening I was waiting for one group lot, the only lot in the session where I had serious interest. The auction is live & also runs on 3 or 4 streams with bidding overtures to each on on seemingly every lot + inside jokes + personal slants on history + reading the lot descriptions from the podium.

I waited patiently through a long and very slow part of the session (there's no way to estimate timing) when two lots before my lot is to come up the auctioneer picks up a guitar and proceeds to sing a cowboy song. To be fair, the lyrics were good , the voice was adequate & the guitar work was decent, but come on! This was not the first time for song nor do I think it will be the last and they certainly can run their auction any way they wish. All I can say is that the overall approach and time investment considerably limits my active (and to a point, passive) participation. Yes, I did win the lot.

Not a good strategy to bury selling lots inside other entertainment, because you could easily lose bidders that either give up or aren't paying close attention. Sort of like listening to baseball on the radio when you get an exchange something like this:

"So I was scheduled to call a minor league game once not far from his hometown once. I drove into town past one of the last Radio Shacks in existence."
"Radio Shack? I thought those were long gone."
"They are now, but this was one of the last ones. I had one of those electronic kits from there when I was a kid where you connect wires here and there and hope the light bulb lights up."
"Really?"
"Yup. Taught me to look for a career in broadcasting, 1-1 pitch low and outside for a ball. So we got to the stadium and we're testing the sound and my mic is dead."
"Go to Radio Shack!"
"And that's what I told the facility manager -- that there was a Radio Shack not far down the road where we could get a working one. He said that we'd better hurry because they closed in 20 minutes. Now he seemed more concerned with the fact they closed soon than the fact that I had no mic, 2-1 fastball for a strike, but off we went."

retirednow

@Lakesammman said:
" 1st time ever watching a Legend auction, for a variety of reasons.

I really like the pace - ...."

I do like Legends Auctions ... one they have nice selections of high quality pieces but also much smaller groupings. This may have been one of their larger groupings as it held over 2 nights. I also enjoy the catalogs .. the narratives appear to be more lively and a bit more interesting and the hard bound books are nicer to keep in good shape

I did pick up a couple of pieces I was interested in this time