Fun, fun, fun....

...'till my daddy took the T'Bird away.

I couldn't get to FUN this year but the preliminary reports were good and the auctions seemingly did well.

Let's have some reports from forum members!

 

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Ummmm....Im not Familiar with the T'Bird

 

"Fun, Fun, Fun", written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, was a hit single by The Beach Boys that was released in 1964.

The song was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love about Shirley England, the daughter of the owner of radio station KNAK in Salt Lake City, Utah . She borrowed her father's Ford Thunderbird to go study at the library. Instead of driving to the library, she ended up at a hamburger stand. When her father found out he took the car away. The next day she was at the radio station complaining about it to the staff while The Beach Boys were visiting and they were inspired to write this song.[

 

MBT didn't you see the age demographics poll here? Most of the posters think the Beatles are just bugs.

 

I decided not to go.
Would have cost me the price of a nice coin for travel and lodging.
But from the reports I've seen, I missed a good show.
I'll wait for Baltimore.

I was hoping MFD could pick up something from my wantlist.
But no calls so far, so probably not.

 

All the heritage auctions are being won by internet bidders,,, not a single one has been won by anyone on the floor..... not one. Is that normal ?

 

I saw a number of the lots gong to floor bidders in earlier sessions. I believe the last sessions did not have floor biding.

 

The single Heritage live auction I have been to, a fair chunk of the "internet" bidders were sitting it the room with the auctioneer using their laptops. The only thing I can think of is that it might give them better anonymity?

 

My FUN experience had a lot of sells. Picked up a few coins for my typeset, but nothing that I went for. I was really looking for some high grade common date Barbers for the type set but nothing caught my eye. I saw a lot of crazy premiums on toners, some were justified but most weren't IMO. Met a Few members from the forum, LostDutchman, Penny Lady, and BluCC. Overall decent show.



Josh

 

That's right. Session Five was the last live floor format.

 

Great show. We did really well. Nice turnover of existing stash with some great newps, including a marvelous 1837 capped bust reeded edge 50c and some 1794 large cents, both around eac 15 or 20. I'll post up pics.

Hung out with some cool peeps, and tried something new - Conder tokens.

A while back, I cherrypicked a h10c 1837 LM-2 which is r.5; got it confirmed by very strong early silver eyes. Consigned, and hoping for the best.

Similar story with a large cent - 1c 1798 S-183, an r.5 . Confirmed by big dawgs.

Got to meet John Wright, who is one of the Founding Fathers of EAC and author of the greatest book on middle date large cents. A giant amongst copperheads.

Lots of crowd Friday and Saturday. Big buzz.

 

Maybe it gives them an (unfair) opportunity to submit a "cut bid" on the same lot twice (via internet and live bid). You only are supposed to get one bite out of that apple.

 

I got overworked last week, and got sick over the weekend. No FUN for me.

 

Two things can cause this.

(1) The room may be empty or relatively so. It's not uncommon for some Heritage Auctions to get sparse attendance, although phone and Heritage Live generally more than make up for that. In any event, there can be streaks where Internet bidders win a good number of lots... which is certainly good for the Internet bidders.

(2) The Saturday and Sunday sessions of the coin auction were what we call "Non-Floor" sessions. They are in fact live auctions, but live bidding takes place only over the Internet through Heritage Live, and there is no actual floor bidding or phone bidding of any kind. If you're watching the auction and there's no audio/video, this is usually what's going on. (There may be exceptions depending on what kind of Internet connection we can get on site.)

 

Not that I could watch each and every one of them, but the ones I remember either bid with their number (live) or on line. The only one I remember doing both bid live when I arrived, started bidding on line, and later switched back to live, but never both on one lot.

 

I've seen isolated examples of people using laptops in Heritage Auctions in the Dallas auction room, but then I haven't travelled to one of our auctions in a few years. (Somehow I get the feeling I'll make it to Fort Worth. ).

I can think of a few reasons why one would want to do something like this. Anonymity is one, although you're highly dependent on the local Internet connection. A dealer looking through their clients' wantlists or their inventory might also want a laptop. Anyhow, as far as I'm concerned, if it helps bidders place their bids and it doesn't interfere with the auction as it happens, then more power to them.

 

Of course, anyone using a laptop to do this also runs the risk of bidding against himself.

 

Don't read anything negative into what I said. I don't have a problem with them doing it. I just though it odd that they would pay to travel to the auction, take the time to sit through the auction in person and still bid on the internet.

You say "you're highly dependent on the local Internet connection." I guess you have not been to an auction lately. Heritage used the same internet to accept bids. When the internet stopped or even slowed, the auction waited until it was fully functional again and that happened more than once.

Maybe I will see you in Fort Worth.

 

Saw that title and the first thing that came to mind was the old "Beach Boys" song. Guess you had to grow up in that era to appreciate "T-Bird"...

Did Penney Lady post any "fun" results? I know she was there......

 

Picked up a couple nice MPC,S would of had another but thats on a different
Thread...LOL