Yeah Tom - I know several auctioneers personally, all of them pretty good people until they get a microphone in their hand.
I've watched guys bump bids on an old widow woman that I worked for when I was in the eighth grade. They's sit on the fence like a bunch of buzzards and giggle every time she'd up her bid. The auctioneer could see it all. An honorable person would have put a stop to it.
I had a friend who bought a nice John Deere tractor at auction. The auctioneer had hollered SOLD to bidder #XXXX (friend's number). A few minutes later auctioneer declared that he was going to re-open the bid on the tractor because a couple of Amish guys expressed interest in it but were not paying attention when the tractor sold. No amount of protest would stop it. Friend refused to bid further, and it was re-sold to one of the amish men. Last auction I ever attended with that auctioneer. I think an auctioneer should have his license pulled for that type of behavior.
I have another friend who is a trader. He goes to all of the consignment auctions in a pretty big radius, and if I'm interested in something he's selling, I ask him what he has to have for it. He'll tell me and he will make sure it gets to the price that he stated, then he backs off. That doesn't bother me because he is up front about it, and if he takes it back home with him, he still pays the commission. I like to just tell him what I'll give for an item and not attend the auction. If I'm the high bidder, he brings it to the house for me.
We once had a preacher who was also an auctioneer. I told him that he was some kind of an oxymoron - kinda like the term "jumbo shrimp". Needless to say, I didn't endear myself to him, which was good in the end. He got to fooling around with one of the ladies in the church and now he's just an auctioneer.
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