From: Jaxincalifornia@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 16:06:12 PST
Well gang.... another big truck auction has closed and I scored zip again. lol
The deuce went for $2110, Sierra Depot in CA. I can't believe it... drat! lol (maybe next time)
Next. Had an odd thing happen while up Sharpe that's probably worth mentioning to bidders at such auctions like today.
I found that truck #7001 only had a $95 bid on it as of yesterday and I thought it must have been because they put the wrong pic on the web or something. So I inspected it really good, seemed great to me, but no bidders?
Ok, so I bid right then and there... next day, the price was still low. Alright, now this is weird, just seemed to good to be true, so I went back out to the yard and double checked, yep it was the right number 7001, the bid now was only up to $185 and this was the last day?? Truck 7003 was in front and it was $1500... 7004 was behind it and was much higher too... Wha the..? Nah... could I actually be getting a deal... finally? lol
My bubble burst when a GL employee showed up and we figured out why the low bid. While he was out there looking over one of the trucks for an Internet bidder we got to talking and I commented about the low bids on 7001... thats when I discovered this truck not the one I thought it was, in fact it was sold in the last auction! It was left behind waiting for the EUC and they had not moved it out yet.
Panic set in... as I soon found the "real 7001" a couple of rows away and it was just residue. (insert deer in headlights look now) After regaining conciousness I made some quick phone calls and did some explaining... fortunately I got my bid retracted, thanks to GL supervisors David Hess and David Wright who understood the problem and agreed to let me off the hook without a fuss (thanks again guys..I was really sweating bullets.).
Looking back my suggestion to GL would be to:
#1 tag "Sold" vehicles as sold (would help stop possible confusion with current items for auction)
and...
#2 keep them out of the lots under bid (again, avoid any possible misunderstanding and to keep people off your sold vehicle)
and for buyers... (very important and something I just learned, almost the hard way)
#3. always make sure the tagged ID on the vehicle shows that shows the smaller I.A. (Internet auction) number below the item number, matches the auction you are bidding on! In my case even the IA number which was hand written and appeared as this auction ... so close... 656 v 658....glad we got it straightened out easy!
That's when I returned to bidding on the other deuce up at Sierra about 150 miles away, I put my bid in and raced for home to watch it go down on the puter, sadly got home just as the auction closed and found out I was outbid in the last moments once again.
Oh well... I will just keep trying. Hope some you guys scored today!
Jack (Norcal)
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