I am upset..

Have

 

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I bet you cashed that check probably right away with no issues though right?

 

what are you talking about???

He went to an auction and he bid on a lot. The lot was hammered for a ridiculously low price, but where did he NOT do the right thing? Why is his integrity questioned??? and lastly, if paying what something is worth was the only correct thing to do, then why does an auction accept bids in the first place? Why not just a fixed price???

 

so, what I'm finally hearing is that the $5 gold coin was NOT part of the lot, but somehow was misplaced inside of the lot.

If the $5 gold coin was not supposed to be part of the original lot, then, you need to return it at no charge.

If the gold was supposed to be part of the lot, then you won it fair and square.

Unfortunately, I am getting the feeling that the real case is the former, rather than the latter, and you've never mentioned which way it actually was.

 

The auctioneer was in the wrong,it was his mistake,therefore his problem and his time to practice his customer service 'how to deal with an irate customer'.
There was however an opportunity for you to walk away with a bargain,I understand you were put on the spot, but that opportunity doesn't come along often and may never happen again.
Im gutted for you..yes but your going to have to put this one down to as a lesson learned and an opportunity missed.
He would have had to have dealt with it if you didnt give it back.
Did you do the right or the wrong thing?? That would depend on what type of person you are and were all different.
Give yourself a bit of credit.if you were the other guy then you'd appreciate the kindness of what you did. .nice one.[emoji106]
Hey I would have loved to been a fly on the wall watching the auctioneer go back an tell the customer "Um..sorry sir but unfortunately ..[emoji35][emoji120][emoji47] [emoji109] [emoji44] [emoji109][emoji95][emoji42] " mistakes cannot be rectified.

 

This one could of been the funniest thread I've read here yet!

 

Perhaps a better question would be: why is it assumed he has any?

Can anyone familiar with the OP honestly say that they believe this "intimidation" nonsense? That this guy waited until super daddy and his friend were away just to take poor not-so-little Timmy into a corner and force him to take $80 over a clear mistake? Knowing what we do about this person, does it not seem much more likely that, when offered the $80, he likely eagerly accepted, and only later on did the wheels start spinning this into another example of his never-ending victimhood? Of course he couldn't come here and whine without a "good" story, and the intimidation claim certainly fits the bill. This whole story just fits the OP a tad too well, and his posting it on at least THREE different forums suggests it is another of his all-too-many screams for attention.

 

Good for you.

 

Look at all of detectos other threads. This is nothing.

 

There were 4 trays of coins, and they were selling them choice, per denomination. They auctioned your choice of morgan dollars, your choice of indian head cents, etc. If you won the first time, you could take one Morgan at 30 a piece, or take them all.

One tray had a bunch of tokens and Canadian nickles on it. I did not even preview the coins until they sold them, as I don't collect anymore.

Some of the Indian head cents sold pretty cheap, again I don't collect, I didn't have a book with me, and my phone was dead.

But in my mind I knew they were selling for half of wholesale. So I stood up and looked at what's left, that's when I sold the gold coin.

The coin was not marked with a denomination, it simply said "1891 With Motto- Unc". It was in a clear flip. It did not say "$5", "Gold coin", "gold piece", etc.

So I sat back down, and when they got to it, his ringman held up that coin in the flip, along with 3-4 Canadian nickels. The gold coin was partially hidden in between the 2x2 cardboard flips of nickels and the ringman's fingers. The auctioneer asked he ring man what he was holding up for sale, to which he replied "Just some junk Canadian nickels" (They were out of the 70's, no value beyond face).

They started it at $1, and someone bid, someone else bid. Realizing that no one else was paying attention, I bid $3, 15 seconds passed and the auctioneer said sold.

I was shocked, but took the coin out of the flip and examined it. I was about 75% sure it was real.

About 20-30 minutes passed, someone stood up and walked to the auctioneer and asked him "Hey, where is that gold coin you were selling?" (I did not hear this part, but is what someone else told me), to which the auctioneer replied "I guess it got sold with the nickels" to which the other guy replied (and I heard it, because he practically yelled) "that little $#@ got a $5 gold coin for $3!!" The auctioneer said "I will talk to him about it".

Then you know how the rest went down.

 

Welcome back Detecto!

 

It's obvious what you should have done.

You have two hands?

You should have bid up the item. Left hand and then with passion your right hand. i would have taken it straight to......$5!!!!!!You have an obligation to make sure the for profit auction company comes out ahead. Your just the little guy. Don't forget the little guy doesn't count. On the way to your car be sure to turn in any lost change on the ground because that also doesn't belong to you either.

 

'Cmon, give him a chance, we don't even know where he is working now.

 

Maybe I've misunderstood what really happened but how is it that you knew the gold was mixed in with the nickels while no one else in the room did? I think you were bidding on, and won, the nickels and found the gold afterwards. At that point YOU were the one in the wrong. You won something you didn't bid on and, if you have any morals at all, should have returned it immediately. If, on the other hand, you were actually the only one in the room who realized that the gold had been mixed in with the nickels but bid $3, then YOU were the one cheating the system. What you did amounts to theft and the auctioneer's offer to pay you anything at all was extremely generous. If you had bid on what you thought was a $5 gold piece but were handed a nickel you would have expected a correction; why is your experience different?

 

Timmy is like Midas, except that everything he touches turns into dung.
It must be tough to go through life with a black cloud forever over your head.

 

Nickels.

 

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You did good Tim. I never walked away from an auction with more money in my pocket than I started with.
The auction house messed up. I give them credit for trying to fix it and make everyone happy.
I run 1 or 2 auctions each year with about 500 lots each. I had over 300 bidders at the last one. It takes all day and several days for everything to get picked up. Some folks pay but never pick up what they won. Go figure that one out. Auctions can be crazy and mistakes will happen. My worst mistake was when several pallets of motorcycles and ATVs, in the crates, went missing. That's hard to fix.