How do you feel about buyer's premiums? What do you think the advantages & disadvantages are for the buyer, the seller & the auctioneer?
I would really appreciate it if everyone would participate in this poll (yes, even those of you who haven't registered yet. It takes less than a minute to join the forum.) We will be using the data received for a future article.
1) One has to account for it when bidding.
2) I can't see that it's any benefit to the buyer...other than it rules out bidders who have less cash to spend.
3) It's obviously a benefit for the facility as it apparently helps pay their fee to the auctioneer.
4) The auctioneer is going to get a fee no matter what.
But beyond all that, your idea to use the results of this poll as data in a future article about the subject REALLY leaves a lot to be desired. In the three years I've been here (and the placement of half a dozen polls) I've never seen more than 6 or so people even VOTE in a poll here.....and that was when things were more active here.
The forum moves on because a dozen or so of us (out of over 3,000) post here and I guess maybe 50 to a hundred people come on each day to do some reading.
To state ----""x" percent of people who answered a poll believe "y" about something is a sample base so small as to not be used at all. I don't know what sample number one would need but it would have to be in the hundreds at a miniimum and closer to a thousand even better.