Do you think mail bids have gone the way of horse and buggy?
ScarsdaleCoin
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Just got a mail bid sale notice from Lake Books.... in thinking about it.... I believe that the days of mail bid sales are over? what are your thoughts?
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i guess if you dont have a computer, email or a phone... its the way to go
just send them pony express
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<< <i>I don't bid in any sale that does not allow for electronic bids. I just don't want to bother with faxes or snail mail letters. On a related matter, my father in law is a local yokel lawyer in my town. He's an old guy (I think he's 67), and he does not use email. He was complaining that he needed to file a paper in the court and wasted at least 2 hours of his time driving there, talking with the clerk, getting it stamped, etc. I told him (as did the clerk) that he could have filed the form eletronically with a simple push of the button and saved 2 hours that he could have actually billed and gotten paid. He still doesn't get it and refuses to do things electronically. >>
For a long time, when I would email my father, he would print out his response and snail mail it back to me. I'm not kidding.
<< <i>I don't bid in any sale that does not allow for electronic bids. I just don't want to bother with faxes or snail mail letters. On a related matter, my father in law is a local yokel lawyer in my town. He's an old guy (I think he's 67), and he does not use email. He was complaining that he needed to file a paper in the court and wasted at least 2 hours of his time driving there, talking with the clerk, getting it stamped, etc. I told him (as did the clerk) that he could have filed the form eletronically with a simple push of the button and saved 2 hours that he could have actually billed and gotten paid. He still doesn't get it and refuses to do things electronically. >>
Most "mail bid" sales today (including this one from Lake Books) do allow for phone/fax and e-mail bids. The term is usually used for any closed bid auction.
Edit to fix grammar. [sigh]
The last time I took a shot on a mail bid auction was about 1975. I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do at the time - sort of a pre-Internet Ebay.
Nowadays, if I can't see a coin - in person or in a picture - then I'm likely to pass on buying it. Maybe I've grown cynical from having to return too many overgraded coins that I bought based only on a description.
Choppy
I participate in several mail bid auctions a year.
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