It was thus said that the Great Grant Taylor via cctalk once stated: > On 1/26/19 6:26 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > >Learning how to judge scrap value is the first thing to do. Do research > >and gain experience. > > That sounds all well and good. Until you something unexpected and > unknown when you are at an auction for something else. There's only so > much self education you can do on a smart phone 10 minutes before the > auction. > > I've found the best policy is to be honest with people in such > situations. If a scrapper is planing on getting $200 in raw materials, > I'm not going to waist anybody's time bidding $50. > > Be polite, ask questions, don't take anything personally. Try not to > insult people.
I remember attending an auction at a local university some twenty years ago [1] with some friends, hoping to score some computer equipment. There was a sizable crowd there, but two bidders stood out. One was a guy there with a young kid, and another was an older gentleman. The older gentleman had a bankroll and was *continuously* outbidding *everbody* and seemed pissed that there were other bidders there [2]. The man with the young kid started bidding on an old fusball table for his kid and the older gentleman was determined to get it---drive the price up something fierce and I'm sure he priced the other fusball table according to the driven up price at the auction. He outbid me for a pile of equipment (I was really interested in one item, not the lot as a whole). I approached him afterwards, offering to buy the one item and he blew me off, not wanting to bother to even part with the one item right there, for cash. It ruined the auction for me, the father, and others I'm sure. -spc [1] I was a former student at said university. [2] How dare these civilians bid on stuff!
