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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 513 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 513 | i was at a farm, auction today they sell about anything you want. there was a sissicors lift that came with the stuff to do aligements, it was older, but ran off air, would have made a nice shop lift though, i was just messing around and bided 225.00 and quit (i figured it would go high) it sold for 250.00, and they would deliver it on a truck for 50.00, i had a 7000 lbs lift i messed up on that but did get a set of cutting torches for 250.00 
1949 Chevy 3600 Flatbed all orginal 1964 gmc 4000 1973 gmc 6000 2005 chevy duramax 4x4 1994 chevy 1500 Trucks are GM and Tractors are Orange "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - General George S. Patton | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 841 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 841 | who knows what the other guy would have kept bidding up to after that. i love to go to farm auctions and it only take one other guy to run the price up. it is amazing one auction they will sell something dirt cheap the next one it will be sky high. i wouldn't worry about it there are always good deals of some sort. one auction i bought a victor journeyman torch on cart with two extra spare bottles for 100.00, i have never seen one sell as cheap as that again. at another auction i saw a newer dodge 4x4 truck with the windshield broke out and a few scratches on the cab sell for 1200, it didn't even have 30,000 miles on it. i should have bought and resold that one. hr | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 Former Workshop Owner | | Former Workshop Owner Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,317 | What I normally do, is decide what is the most that I am willing to pay for the item before the bidding starts. Sometimes, I may add another 5 or 10 percent if I really want it. I will bid up to my maximum, and if that isn't enough, I just let someone else have it.
I will not allow myself to get caught up in a bidding war. That is a good way to pay too much.
John | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 | Yeap,ya gotta set a limit,on what you will spend.You will never know how high the other guy would have went to get it. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 35 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 35 | Yeah, you've also got to watch out for those knot-headed auctioneers, too. Lots of them have one or two "plants" in the audience who bid up the prices, but if you watch, they never buy anything. Lots of folks will get it in their minds that they want something, and these shills will get to competing with them and run the price up beyond new price.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | my daddy always said "satisfaction is cheap at any price". Some truth to that but you have to have the money to go with it..... | | |
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