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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2756904, member: 57495&quot;]This happened a couple of times during that auction.&nbsp; I was watching (and listening) to much of it via biddr (which has the audio facility), and there was nothing suspicious about how the auctioneer called it.&nbsp; If he realized that he had hammered a lot without noticing a last second bidder, he&#039;d re-open the lot with an apology.&nbsp; This happens with live floor auctions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On one occasion, after he had hammered a lot, he noticed that the catalog description did not make note of some scratches in the field of the coin, and he re-started the lot from opening bid after highlighting the fault.&nbsp; Obviously, only the floor bidders and those on the internet with audio would have been privy to that new information.&nbsp; That lot went to an online bidder at a price some bids lower than what it had previously closed for.&nbsp; I wonder if the winning online bidder had his audio turned on.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I did also passingly wonder how Naville was handling the re-opened or re-started lots since they were running the auction live online concurrently on their own platform.&nbsp; It&#039;s not surprising that some things slipped past them.&nbsp; Few online auction platforms are perfect... are there any?&nbsp; I once won a lot at a live online auction for CHF 195, and had a screen shot time-stamped to a few minutes after the close of the lot to prove it.&nbsp; When I got the bill, it was for CHF 205.&nbsp; When I asked why, the explanation was that the system had a 2-second delay processing bids coming in from the US and there was a last second bid on my coin that bumped the price higher even though the system had not recorded it until later (and apparently not visibly to me???).&nbsp; I didn&#039;t like it even though it was only a difference of CHF 10, but hey, there hasn&#039;t been a system built without some kinks that need to be ironed out along the way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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