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Posted by Morgan on March 23, 2003 at 12:37:31 from (64.185.62.25):
In Reply to: Crooked Auctioneers posted by Jim on March 23, 2003 at 03:43:06:
2 years ago,me and my son went to an auction, it is a local consignment sale they have every year. Well advertised. We wanted to see if we could buy maybe an old tractor as they usually have about 75 or more tractors.All kinds,from antiques to modern. Also they have wheel tractors to bull dozers-you never know what will be there. At this sale the bidders sat on bleachers and they drive the tractors and what ever though and stop them in front of the bidders and start the auction. I was seting there when a bull dozer came through and the the bidding started, I noticed the bidding got down to 2 people. me and a guy in the back- only thing was I wasn't bidding! the auctioneer was making the guy in the back row think I was bidding! My son saw it too. the guy in the back ended up paying 27,500. after it sold me and my son got up and left.
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