Welder Dave
Senior Member
The auction of the axles is going great! However when I was making a detailed list of lot numbers and bids I had 3 lots that were unaccounted for. These just happened to be the most expensive to replace axles out of all of them. 2 lots were for 10,000lb torsion axles with hyd. brakes. The other lot was for a pair of 7000lb torsion axles with brakes, drums and hubs. I had reserves of $225 on the 10,000lb axles and $300 on the pair of 7000lb axles. Looking at the prices bid in the current auction it's safe to assume these 3 lots would sell for well over $1000 combined. I called the auction house to enquire about them. I was horrified when the auctioneer said they were sold by mistake because THEY FORGOT to put subject to on these 3 lots!!! The most expensive lots of all of them. I went over the subject to lots in great detail especially the 10,000lb torsion axles. I said the minimum I should get is the commission I would have received at my reserve. He didn't offer it. He said he'll work something out. He should be paying me the full value of my reserves because he doesn't deserve commission for HIS MAJOR SCREW UP! It makes no difference at all how well the rest of the sale is going. He said he contacted the buyers but they refused to bring the axles back. I had a gut feeling that's what happened. They sold for like $10 and $30 I think. No way in hell they should have been sold. I would think if there was a blatant mistake like this he could legally go after the buyers to return them. The prices were a joke. I will take him to court if he doesn't properly compensate me. I will figure out a value based on the results of the current auction if he tries to stiff me even $.02. Incompetence at it's best. He should have told me he sold them for the reserve. It was the easy way out for him. He didn't, he said they were sold by mistake. If I accept the $489 I would have got at my reserve let's him off really really easy. Should I accept nothing less than $750 since that was an established minimum? Like I said above, the results of the rest of the axles has absolutely no baring on these axles. I would have bid them up if I knew the subject to was taken off. He could have called to say the subject to was mistakenly taken off and I would have put a proxy bid at my minimum. If my cancer was stage 4 and I only had a few month's to live I might be able to add murderer to my resume! Holy $#@%! I think anybody would be beyond livid.
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I went back and looked at the items (the auction is still showing online) listed and they do say subject to on these lots. The auction company really screwed up letting them go for less than peanuts.
Edit.
I went back and looked at the items (the auction is still showing online) listed and they do say subject to on these lots. The auction company really screwed up letting them go for less than peanuts.
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