Welder Dave
Senior Member
Another guy and myself are selling quite a few trailer axles from 3500lb. to 10,000lb. from the trailer shop he works at. The owner just wanted them gone. Called the auction and the guy came over and said they should sell, well at least a good portion of them. Anyway he allows you to put subject to on lots you want a reserve on. Because it's online you can also bid on your own items. I don't like to do this but I'm not letting them go for peanuts. Just finished 1 auction and I bid up 6 heavy steel racks to $100. Several axles with subject to had bids but didn't meet my minimum. No problem they can notify the bidder he didn't win the lot but could buy the lot for my reserve. Kind of a win win for everybody. The minimums I wanted were really reasonable from about $100 to highest was $300 for a pair of axles with brakes and suspension. Several axles were torsion axles as well worth a lot of money and some axles were new and unused. Some axles that were supposed to be "subject to" weren't listed as such and I had to manually bid on them. Apparently even though it was their mistake they won't call the 2nd highest bidder to see if they want the lot for my minimum. They said that doesn't look good for them.
I went on Friday to pay for a few items I bought and they were a upset I didn't come on Thu. the day after the sale to let them know if my reserves were met. Why didn't they ask me what the reserves were when I told them which ones had a reserve?? OK, this got all straightened which ones were subject to and the minimums I'll accept. Apparently after all this and highlighting the ones that were subject to and the minimum they got it completely wrong. I looked at their current industrial sale and see most of the big ticket items clearly state subject to consignors approval in the full description. I look at the axles in the sale and none of them say subject to that should. The only axles out of all of them to have subject to were 2 10,000lb. bare axles with no hubs or anything that I would take $2 for. I don't want to have to haul all these axles away because the guy is mad at me for pointing out there huge mistake in not listing them subject to. I was just there on Friday! Maybe they can add the subject to as the auction runs another 6 days but if not how do I tell them they're incompetent without them being mad and telling me to haul the axles away? Seems it was pretty easy for the bigger items so why is it so hard for the axles? I am totally baffled! It's comical that their web site says they put 110% into everything they do. Do I not matter as a consigner with only a few thousand $$$ worth of items?? What's the best way to "politely" confront them to explain how simple it should have been when I was just there?
I went on Friday to pay for a few items I bought and they were a upset I didn't come on Thu. the day after the sale to let them know if my reserves were met. Why didn't they ask me what the reserves were when I told them which ones had a reserve?? OK, this got all straightened which ones were subject to and the minimums I'll accept. Apparently after all this and highlighting the ones that were subject to and the minimum they got it completely wrong. I looked at their current industrial sale and see most of the big ticket items clearly state subject to consignors approval in the full description. I look at the axles in the sale and none of them say subject to that should. The only axles out of all of them to have subject to were 2 10,000lb. bare axles with no hubs or anything that I would take $2 for. I don't want to have to haul all these axles away because the guy is mad at me for pointing out there huge mistake in not listing them subject to. I was just there on Friday! Maybe they can add the subject to as the auction runs another 6 days but if not how do I tell them they're incompetent without them being mad and telling me to haul the axles away? Seems it was pretty easy for the bigger items so why is it so hard for the axles? I am totally baffled! It's comical that their web site says they put 110% into everything they do. Do I not matter as a consigner with only a few thousand $$$ worth of items?? What's the best way to "politely" confront them to explain how simple it should have been when I was just there?