The auctioneer who's auctions I attend the most is now on twitter. I think this is a fantastic idea.

Alot of times I don't like to attend the auction route for the whole day just jump in middway for the two auctions near my home or work. The thign that's a pain is no matter if you call the facility or text the auctioneer you always wind up waiting for an hour for the whole caravan to get there and auction to start.

With twitter now he tweets, everyone is paid up at such and such faciliity were heading to Harlem or something like that. Makes it easy to jump in for a couple midday auctions and skip the morning and afternoon. I love it.

Anyone else's auctioneers using twitter for this?

Hoarding, Yes!  Buying ingots/bars, No!

Copper IMO isnt worth the time.  I am more into buying/collecting/saving/finding/etc. Silver coins and bars.

I just found a 1944 silver quarter in some pocket change the other day but i've given up on buying boxes looking for silver. I've heard ther's less than 1% left. I went through about 3k-4k and found one silver dollar recently and that was the end for me. On the flip side however I did have a buddy who bought 1k worth and found 18 halves in there. its all about getting lucky and striking a good vain so to speak. Lately i have been doing pretty poorly and gave up though.

I built this machine to sort copper pennies...


still gotta set up an auto hopper but havnt gotten around to it.

I just raise my hand or throw up a finger. It just strikes me as lame or trying to be too cool or something when you get some idiot doing the Dave yeeeep or other off the wall stuff.

Also, it seems like towards the end of the auction for a unit its normally down to 2 or maybe 3 people and then the auctioneer knows who he's dealing with out of the crowd and he's basically just looking back and forth between you and another guy and then a simple headnod will do

yeah it loses its appeal after a while. i liked it when it first came out now i could kinda care less.

the toher thing like with all "reality" shows eventually the characters become c list celebrities and the show just isn't the same anymore.

look at jersey shore ya i know its dumb but first season maybe two they were a bunch of dumb kids from jersey and the show was somewhat authentic of dumb kids from jersey partying and getting a taste of fame. now they are all making 5 mill a year off endorsements and bar appearances and they all have big heads nad the show is not the same thing it began as.

not sure what makes a show stay and what makes a show a fad. pawn stars is here to stay as is american pickers, storage wars just doesn't have whatever those other two do.

Personally I don't think it's worth the the trouble. Even if someone lives in a nice area who's to say their unit isn't just full of 10 year old patio furniture.

Also most of the auctions I go to tend to be in chicago or surrounding suburbs and you can really say oh that's a rich town thats a poor town because chicago as well as these burbs has places someone could buy for a million as well as places one could buy for 80k

I just go to the auctions and let the unit be my research. If I see magazines like Forbes, Watches, Money, etc I'm buying the unit

Everyone loves to tout how ebay is a legally binding contract and that is false even though ebay says so somewhere in their terms and conditions.

If a seller decides they don't like what an auction ended at they can refuse to sell the item and ebay can't do anything about it. Buyers can also after bidding and winning decide they aren't going to pay and ebay can't do anything about it.

I wish I woudl have saved the page but I came across some page on ebay the other day that basically said ebay provides a way for buyers and sellers to connect and then said that even after an auction ends all that is is a jumping board for future negotiations or something along those lines, I was really surprised to see it basically spelled out that an auction even in their terms and conditions isn't something that needs to be followed through on.

The statement that "An Auction is a binding contract between buyer and seller to purchase and sell an item..." is not true. Although eBay makes a point of saying that a bid is a binding contract, that too is untrue. Contract Law states that there must be two items present to create a contract. The first is an offer (in our case, a bid). The second is acceptance of that offer (in our case, this is generally the end of the auction). An offer is just an offer is just an offer. A contract is not made when an offer is extended - only when accepted by the seller. The final part of a contract includes the exchange of consideration (payment and delivery of the item) between the two parties.

So you see, an offer to buy is NOT a legally binding contract until accepted by the seller. Even then, it is not enforceable if a material condition of the sale is not disclosed in advance. If (this is the big if) the seller failed to disclose such ridiculous shipping charges in the auction description, the "contract" cannot be enforced.

This idiot gives sellers a bad name in my opinion when in reality its the buyers who are overwhelmingly the problem, I do a decent bit of buying on ebay and never have problems with sellers.

This idiot seller only gives you two days to pay. I agree I generally pay within hours and I appreciate it when others pay promptly as I'm ready to ship asap and want things gone asap. That said two days isn't realistic considering most buyers I deal with.

Then the seller wants to get the FBI involved, really over an ebay transaction b/c you and the other guy wanna play internet tough guys.

The buyer was also an idiot as well. Seems like its impossible to have a smooth ebay transaciton with non idiots these days.