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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2776338, member: 57495"]I've only bid with Rauch and used the live-bidder.com platform once before, and it was quite some time ago, so I don't remember exactly how it works. Looking at the live-bidder website for upcoming auctions right now, it shows that it allows pre-sale bidding to be done on the platform for that auction. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's not uncommon for auction houses to allow buyers to submit bids through several different platforms (eg., pre-sale bids on their own website, via 'auction aggregators' such as sixbid and numisbids, and finally also live on platforms like biddr, thesaleroom and live-bidder), but as you've pointed out, you really don't want to submit duplicate bids on several different platforms during the pre-sale period. You especially don't want to place a pre-bid, and then bid against yourself live! </p><p><br /></p><p>If you've already submitted pre-sale bids on the live-bidder website, then you just want to confirm that those bids have been submitted. I'd imagine that there's a link on the website to display a list of your submitted bids. Otherwise, you could always e-mail to ask for a confirmation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2776338, member: 57495"]I've only bid with Rauch and used the live-bidder.com platform once before, and it was quite some time ago, so I don't remember exactly how it works. Looking at the live-bidder website for upcoming auctions right now, it shows that it allows pre-sale bidding to be done on the platform for that auction. It's not uncommon for auction houses to allow buyers to submit bids through several different platforms (eg., pre-sale bids on their own website, via 'auction aggregators' such as sixbid and numisbids, and finally also live on platforms like biddr, thesaleroom and live-bidder), but as you've pointed out, you really don't want to submit duplicate bids on several different platforms during the pre-sale period. You especially don't want to place a pre-bid, and then bid against yourself live! If you've already submitted pre-sale bids on the live-bidder website, then you just want to confirm that those bids have been submitted. I'd imagine that there's a link on the website to display a list of your submitted bids. Otherwise, you could always e-mail to ask for a confirmation.[/QUOTE]
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