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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barry Murphy, post: 4800229, member: 79368&quot;]I&#039;ve known Frank for at least 30 years. He&#039;s a nice guy and honest dealer. But I think even Frank will admit he&#039;s a bit of a bottom feeder. Back in the days of mail in bidding he&#039;d bid on 600 lots out of 1000, with a good percentage of the bids below the minimum bid level. Going through his bid sheets was a nightmare and in the end he&#039;d win maybe 5 lots, only ones where he was the only bidder and he happened to bid 60% of the estimate. So if he mailed in his bids to Baldwins and he hasn&#039;t changed his bidding tactics, I can understand their reluctance to deal with him. I would certainly direct him to the online bidding portal to enter his bids. He can enter all the bids he wants online, although he will be limited to bidding he current minimum... no bidding 20% of estimate. In Baldwin&#039;s defense, if his bids were all lowball bids on the sheet he mailed in, I can understand them not wanting to deal with him at all and blocking him from registering.&nbsp; They are free to block anyone they so desire.</p><p><br /></p><p>this is a weird thread, one of the weirdest I can ever recall on CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>Government control of prices. Not allowing dealers to buy at auction. Only bidding in auctions that dealers don’t participate in. Only 20% is a fair margin, any more is price gouging. House and car prices controlled by the government (what????). Somehow the pinko comment makes sense 50 years after the last time someone used that word.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry Murphy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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