ANR Auctions......Anybody ever bid live?

Crazy4Coins

I noticed ANR also has live bidding during their auctions.Has anybody bid live and won anything? How do you think their live feed works? Was it as easy to bid as eBay live?

Thanks,
Randy

RYK

I have followed the ANR auctions live on the internet before. The feed seems to work pretty well. The pace was quick, and I was too chicken to bid.

coynclecter

Oh yeah, Last time I was waiting to bid the server crashed, the stopped the action for 10 min. Then the server was up and it crashed again. This time they kept going. When it was back up it had passed my lots. The only bid that won was a previous max bid and they told me the next day I was outbid on the floor.

Hopefully they fixed it. If not then they need to hire me, I would never have let that happen in an auction that size.

photog

I will tell you exactly what I tell anyone who wants to know about on-line bidding:

The best strategy for on-line bidding is to enter a proxy bid and let the computer do the work for you, as once it goes live it moves very quickly. Once the sale goes live you can follow along and if the bidding starts to approach your max if you're willing to go a little higher you can still be "in the game" and enter a higher proxy or hit "next increment" to bid along.
But relying solely on live-bidding is risky business. There are no guarantees that your net connection is fast enough to follow along, that our website won't be slammed with traffic and it'll go down for four minutes (just long enough to miss the lot you wanted!) or who knows- we're getting heavy wet snow and icing here right now and if the power goes, there goes our servers. A computer is a computer, and as such is not perfect and there are no guarantees. It can catch a virus, have too much traffic, lose power, or anything else that your home computer is susceptable to. Who knows- your kid could trip on the power cord and shut down your system right before you bid! You just never know.

But that's neither here nor there- you have all the rest of today and tomorrow to get in some bids. But like I said, to get in the running I'd enter proxy bids and let the computer do its thing. That way if there's a server issue during live bidding your bid has still been entered in our book.

ALSO: If you are an AOL user somehow with their recent updates to security and antivirus (we've all seen the ads) they've managed to make themselves incompatible with sites like ours. AOL may be blocking cookies or who knows- we're working on a patch. If you use AOL and want to log in or bid in any capacity, log out of AOL and go through Netscape or Explorer. Some people have had success with Explorer, others have only been able to go through Netscape.
And as always if you use a Macintosh use Safari to follow along or bid.

Hope this helps and Happy Bidding,

Jenna
ANR