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  • motorcarman

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    I saw a local ad in the Wise County Messenger about a local gun and knife auction.
    I found the site and it indicated that you need to use PROXBID to watch items or bid.

    I thought I remembered that I already signed up for another auction so I found my 'username' and 'password', sure enough I was registered with PROXBID.

    I found a few things I was interested in and 'watched' them.

    Then I placed a bid on 5 items. 3 were ammo related and 2 were firearms.
    I researched and determined my max bid and placed them.

    I vowed to NOT 'chase' the items when the bids came in!!!!!!!!!!

    I was outbid on the first two ammo items. Then I was the only bidder on a few hundred .312 cast bullets with copper gas checks (winning bid $1.20)

    Then the rifle came up. A Winchester Model 74 first year (1939) .22 short.
    The buyers premium was 17% cash so I calculated what I was willing to pay MAX and I placed the bid and WON.

    Then the Winchester Model 50 20 gauge came up and I got it for $100 under my max bid.

    I drove to Chico TX (about 20 miles away) and paid about $500 for everything.

    I found a few more auctions in MO, FL, IL.

    I think I'm out of control!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Dawico

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    When Ebay was fairly new I got into it but found I was just bidding on crap I didn't need.

    Many of the local bidding is for charity and that drives the prices way above where they should be.

    I am always open to looking for better deals though. I might have to check it out.
     

    Ole Cowboy

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    I saw a local ad in the Wise County Messenger about a local gun and knife auction.
    I found the site and it indicated that you need to use PROXBID to watch items or bid.

    I thought I remembered that I already signed up for another auction so I found my 'username' and 'password', sure enough I was registered with PROXBID.

    I found a few things I was interested in and 'watched' them.

    Then I placed a bid on 5 items. 3 were ammo related and 2 were firearms.
    I researched and determined my max bid and placed them.

    I vowed to NOT 'chase' the items when the bids came in!!!!!!!!!!

    I was outbid on the first two ammo items. Then I was the only bidder on a few hundred .312 cast bullets with copper gas checks (winning bid $1.20)

    Then the rifle came up. A Winchester Model 74 first year (1939) .22 short.
    The buyers premium was 17% cash so I calculated what I was willing to pay MAX and I placed the bid and WON.

    Then the Winchester Model 50 20 gauge came up and I got it for $100 under my max bid.

    I drove to Chico TX (about 20 miles away) and paid about $500 for everything.

    I found a few more auctions in MO, FL, IL.

    I think I'm out of control!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Wise county, yea, YEA I know it, well.

    I was dating Tom Wilson's daughter, he had about 8000 acres, cattle, farming, natural gas, that old farmer made money hand over fist. He used to tell me: Son, when I leave this house I come back with $1000 in my pocket...He DID!

    Tom took me aside one day and told me he had nobody to take over his ranching and farming operation and he said: "son I would like for it to be you if you marry my daughter, but if I was you I don't think I would marry trhat woman she is a nut case". She was, she went on to go to UT and got her law degree, ended up in DC with Jimmy Carter, she was very liberal to say the least.

    Then there was Sheriffs Dept, they knew also, me 'n my " yallow Flyin Saucer" aka '69 Corvette. They would hide out there on Hwy 114 coming from Dallas as drove over on Fri/Sat nites to pick her up. Back in those days not a lot of traffic and on that long straight stretch coming into Boyd. I would fly by about 85 or so and see those light come on and then nail it and that 427 would start talking. I would come off the ground when I crossed the railroad tracks just on the edge of Boyd and when hit pavement start downshifting and braking to my the left turn on the Azle hwy. I would be in a 4 wheel drift when I came off the clutch in 2nd gear and headed down the Azle hwy. Couple miles down as the base of a hill I stood on the brakes and downshifted hung a right and headed to her place and park my Corvette in the barn. They never caught me in almost a year.
     

    motorcarman

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    Well it happened AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I got a PROXBID notice of a Missouri auction so I bid on another Winchester model 74 but this time a .22 LR (circa 1941)

    I found a few others but was outbid.

    Well danged if I did not win the model 74 for way under my max bid.

    I would have liked to have won the Winchester model 67 as I have several others as well as some model 68s but I did not 'chase-the-bid'.

    SOMEBODY STOP ME

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    Glenn B

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    I saw a local ad in the Wise County Messenger about a local gun and knife auction.
    I found the site and it indicated that you need to use PROXBID to watch items or bid.

    I should point out that at least some of the auctions on Proxibid have their own bidding sites or allow live bids by phone with what usually amounts to a lower buyer's premium. Then there is also HiBid.com which almost always has lower buyer premiums, I think they go with whatever the auction house charges as a premium. I had thought that the 13% that Hessney Auctions LTD (they use HiBid) charges for online bidding was high until I saw what Proxibid charges; now I see that 13% is pretty much minimal for an auction house buyer's premium.
     

    Glenn B

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    Well it happened AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Well danged if I did not win the model 74 for way under my max bid.

    SOMEBODY STOP ME

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    Well, if you really want to stop, there is your problem. You are saying you won something when in fact all you did was have the high bid and had to pay whatever amount for the item on which you bid. It's not a prize, it's not contest, you are not winning diddly-squat. You are buying something after having the high bid is all it amounts to. Too many folks get bit hard by the auction bug and find it hard to control themselves because they believe they have won something. A clever auctioneer was the first guy who thought up the term: "winning bid".
     

    Glenn B

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    I won the right to pay and come home with the desired item.
    You paid for something that you bid more than did anyone else is all - you did not win it nor anything else by doing so. With all due respect, if you think that bidding on an item at auction, having the high bid, then paying for it and bringing it home is winning something - you are a lost cause. Well, that is except to auctioneers who will love you as long as you keep bidding while thinking you are about to win something.

    Oh never mind, I agree - you won. Did I mention I have a rifle and some other items up for bids at GunBroker. com?
     
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    Glenn B

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    I think I'm out of control!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    You certainly read me wrong as I was merely replying, matter of fact like, to what you said about yourself with what I have experienced at auctions. I am not the one who said "...I am out of control" or who said in the thread title that I was "...hooked on Proxibid". To think and say that I was upset and that maybe I was upset because of what you can afford is a totally ludicrous and egotistical stretch of the imagination, your imagination - not mine. Your imagination and your ego seem to be just as wild as is your bidding, maybe even wilder. In fact, I was merely trying to help you with what seemed to be your self expressed addiction.

    Additionally, in the post containing the "lost cause"mention, I was also trying to be humorous - maybe you did not notice the strike through section of my most recent prior post and then the mention of me having items up for bids on GunBroker. If that looked to you like I was irked over your ability to purchase guns - you need to take a reality check.
     
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