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Is it possible to monitor Heritage auctions live??
Lakesammman
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If so, how?? I know there is internet bidding when I've been there in person. I can't figure out how to do it from the web site. How's it done??
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Lakes, you have to do it through ebay. I have found the best way to access an ebay-live auction is to save one of the auction coins [from the ebay not the Heritage listing] to my ebay watch list. Then just before or during the auction you click on that coin and a "view live" button is available. Its easy after that. Bids move very fast.
You have to sign up thru E-bay, but you may want to choose another method of actual bidding. Heritage ups the buyers premium to 20% when bidding thru this avenue. Also, For coins at 5,000.00 and above, you can live phone your bid to the auction floor.
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Tim, Once the live auction starts the ebay listings disappear for that auction just like the listing for a regular ebay auction disappears when the auction ends. If you save one auction item in your ebay watch list you can access the auction through that coin even after the auction starts.
Probably the easiest way is to save the page that Shylock linked in favorites.
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I hit the "Bid now" button and it took me to the registration site
As noted by others, this is the most expensive way to bid. But, if your like me and waited until the last minute, it's better than NO option.
I still use dial up and rarely did the image finish downloading before the hammer dropped.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that you are mistaken, I'm just saying that the impression I got from the level of coins being offered was that it was some serious coins going for serious money...with multiple lots of the same date and mint being offered in grades from 64 to 68. This just seems like way too many high grade coins to be anything but the actual Heritage Long Beach Auction. In fact, Heritage will Auction off the lots over several days beginning with the Colonials. I figured since the Colonials, Cents, 3CN, Half Dimes, Nickels, Dimes etc. had been auctioned the previous day, this was about right in terms of where they would be.
The title of the auction on the ebay live site was Heritage Long Beach Live Auction.
In any event, I don't see how anyone using the net to bid live would have much of a chance, I only saw 4 or 5 internet winners out of about 200. It moves just too darn fast.
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Hey Ed,
You mean Thursday night when I watched Heritage Session 1 [early copper, large cents, FEs, IHCs] and Friday night when I watched Session 3 [patterns, early gold, commemoratives, etc] on ebay-live that they really weren't there? Was I dreaming?
As far as the sessions being live, I know the Indian cent lots were (the first night). I bought one coin after someone on the floor matched my max Heritage site bid, so would have won the coin. Forced me to go $50 higher, no big deal but now I also have to pay the extra 5% on the entire bid to Ebay. The internet bidder gets screwed coming and going, the price we pay for convenience.