Re: Super auctions bidding against the seller and ridiculus fees.

you were willing to pay $525. if you knew you were bidding against the
owner, you should have stopped.

what ever happened to personal responsibility?

i sold a WW at a super auction and bought it back for $950. i wasn't
willing to let it go for that. what in the hell is wrong with that?

if SA pisses you off so much DON'T GO. not sure where in the Constitution
it says you have to attend.
Dan

<macaste@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1150904018.979797.302730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I attended the auction in Dallas TX on may 26 2006. I
noticed that many of the opposing bidders were the sellers of the very
arcade game I was bidding on. I bought a sega world series 99 game in
excellent condition for 525.00. The last legitimate (from a normal
buyer like me) bid was 375.00. The seller next bid on the item for
400.00 and I bid 425.00. I finally got it at 525.00. Not such as good
deal. The same thing happened with a Teken 4, Teken 3, NBA jam and
blitz 2000 I was bidding on. I did not play the sellers game and stuck
one seller with his own teken 3 at 275.00. It was terrible many people
were complaining and upset that the sellers were allowed to bid on
their own machines.
The fees that super auctions charges are outrageous. Super
actions get 13% of the price of the game, as a buyer I paid 13% extra
on top of the 525.00. So super auctions got 26% of the 525.00 purchase
price. They made 136.50 off this one game. In total this 525.00 game
cost me 525.00 plus (13 % buyers screw fee) 68.25 plus 48.94 Texas
state sales tax for a grand total of 642.19. Not such a good deal after
all. At the higher prices things are even worse for example a machine
costing 2000.00 will cost 2425.00 with buyers fees and taxes. Two last
things that really pissed me off. There was a person who was bidding
against me several times. This person looked as if he was just a buyer
but in fact worked for the auction. He was helping out the auctioneers.
He just placed several starting and low bids on items and never bought
anything. I noticed him loading several games for people. The last and
final problem was the auctioneers would try to lure you in to paying
just 25.00 more. Several times I reached my limit and the auctioneer
helpers would tell me just 25 bucks more and it is yours. Also the
confusion of the price pissed me off. The auctioneer would yell out 225
but the bid was at 200 or 175. I continually had to ask what the price
was at. At one point I had to yell out 200.00 to get him at 200.00
because he keep saying 225.00 when the bid before was 175.00. It was
very frustrating.



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