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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7793564, member: 74282"]This wasn't a nightmare for me, but another collector on this forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago I had a 1-on-1 meeting with the CEO of the company I was working for on the morning of the Triton RR session. I'd been really hemming and hawing over a particular coin, and my estimate from previous auction speeds lead me to believe the meeting would be right around the time my coin went across the auction block, plus CNG charged a lower commission for prebids versus live bids at the time, so I placed a pretty significant prebid(the highest bid I'd ever placed, at the time) right before they stopped accepting them and happily saw that I was winning with only a single increment over the previous bidder.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a restless night I got up and drove to work early with the phone hooked up to my car speakers so I could listen to the auction progress. To my surprise my lot got there quicker than expected, right as I parked. To my surprise and relief it didn't get a single live bid. Another collector I'd been IMing with congratulated me and I made a pretty vague comment about the win on CoinTalk(just mentioning the denomination and lack of bids, basically) and headed into my meeting.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the meeting I saw an email from a friend titled "You are sooooooo lucky!". Apparently he'd been the prebidder under me and intended to bid it up to 50% more during the live auction but when the coin came up and he clicked to bid the site never accepted his bids. I'm not sure if that's what happened to others or not, but I was quite happy with the situation, however it happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7793564, member: 74282"]This wasn't a nightmare for me, but another collector on this forum. A few years ago I had a 1-on-1 meeting with the CEO of the company I was working for on the morning of the Triton RR session. I'd been really hemming and hawing over a particular coin, and my estimate from previous auction speeds lead me to believe the meeting would be right around the time my coin went across the auction block, plus CNG charged a lower commission for prebids versus live bids at the time, so I placed a pretty significant prebid(the highest bid I'd ever placed, at the time) right before they stopped accepting them and happily saw that I was winning with only a single increment over the previous bidder. After a restless night I got up and drove to work early with the phone hooked up to my car speakers so I could listen to the auction progress. To my surprise my lot got there quicker than expected, right as I parked. To my surprise and relief it didn't get a single live bid. Another collector I'd been IMing with congratulated me and I made a pretty vague comment about the win on CoinTalk(just mentioning the denomination and lack of bids, basically) and headed into my meeting. After the meeting I saw an email from a friend titled "You are sooooooo lucky!". Apparently he'd been the prebidder under me and intended to bid it up to 50% more during the live auction but when the coin came up and he clicked to bid the site never accepted his bids. I'm not sure if that's what happened to others or not, but I was quite happy with the situation, however it happened.[/QUOTE]
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