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<p>[QUOTE="Beefer518, post: 4893168, member: 87737"]I've been using Proxibid (and LiveAuctioneers, GC, HA, etc) for years. I'm aware that houses are on multiple platforms, and bids on platform A gets updated on platforms B, C, etc as the bids come in, and are shown as "Onsite". I also, as others, have seen coins/items relisted in later auctions, which I understand the reasoning behind. I have never had any problems with Proxibid, including twice when I had to return an item (an I got all $ back except shipping).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one (and only one) scenario that I could see this as having been actually sold to another bidder on a different platform, with the same, but earlier highest bid, but that's unlikely. As I said earlier, if the house didn't want to sell it for less than $X, they should have either had a reserve, shown a result of 'Passed', or at the very least, shown a 'Sold' price one bid increment higher then my proxy. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not really upset I didn't get the coin, just unpleased with the way auction result was presented. I've lost plenty of other coins to higher bids, and it's just part of the game.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Beefer518, post: 4893168, member: 87737"]I've been using Proxibid (and LiveAuctioneers, GC, HA, etc) for years. I'm aware that houses are on multiple platforms, and bids on platform A gets updated on platforms B, C, etc as the bids come in, and are shown as "Onsite". I also, as others, have seen coins/items relisted in later auctions, which I understand the reasoning behind. I have never had any problems with Proxibid, including twice when I had to return an item (an I got all $ back except shipping). There is one (and only one) scenario that I could see this as having been actually sold to another bidder on a different platform, with the same, but earlier highest bid, but that's unlikely. As I said earlier, if the house didn't want to sell it for less than $X, they should have either had a reserve, shown a result of 'Passed', or at the very least, shown a 'Sold' price one bid increment higher then my proxy. I'm not really upset I didn't get the coin, just unpleased with the way auction result was presented. I've lost plenty of other coins to higher bids, and it's just part of the game.[/QUOTE]
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