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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasperscuriosities, post: 153001, member: 404&quot;]This exactly. Yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have learned to stop assuming what people want. I have seen people get into bidding wars over items that I would have personally tossed. Last month was the first month I went to offering up $1 lots and we drew a HUGE crowd every sit was taken. We have 50. We also had around 80 people bidding simultaneously online. I will tell you this they all spent well over a dollar before the auction was over. It really opened my eyes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am actually turning a lot of things down or telling them it will have to go next time. These are some very behind the scenes pictures of what it looks like when you have a couple of truck loads coming in everyday and you can&#039;t get it all sorted. So it&#039;s everywhere. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these items will be auctioned, some will go in larger lots and some will need to be picked up, thrown away or will be held for another auction all together. </p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like a pile of junk right now because well it is but there are some treasures in those piles, I assure you. </p><p><br /></p><p>We have been told over and over again since the last auction how much fun people had. Even during the auction during my break people were coming up left and right just to shake my hand and tell me what a wonderful time they were having. It was wild.&nbsp; They loved seeing what was coming next. </p><p><br /></p><p>The people that are coming to my auctions are so varied right now. Young, old, red neck, rockabilly, dealers, collectors, bikers, white collar, blue collar, very eccentric types, and people that just followed the signs out of curiosity. I swear. We had a packed house last month. We had a lot of $1 items last month. I think only a small handful actually sold for $1 many went much higher. We had a clock that we had tried to sell starting at $10 the first month. No one would bid. I dropped it to $5 the next month and still no one would bid. I dropped that clock down to $1 last auction just to move it and guess what. It sold for $70. It was the craziest thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would have agreed with Komo and Cluttered a few months ago. I didn&#039;t want to have $1 lots. Eww! LOL! Now I am like please let me start your item at a $1. Please! It won&#039;t be $1 by the time the live auction starts. LOL! </p><p><br /></p><p>I do also do some specialized auctions I mostly reserve them for online only. We have a vintage beer coaster auction going now and a week or so ago we had vinyl records. The matchbox cars will be a specialized auction and probably be online only. Haven&#039;t decided, maybe we will webcast that one. </p><p><br /></p><p>It looks funny now but come auction day this stuff will be staged and looking good. Which is mainly why I need help. I can&#039;t do it all on my own. It&#039;s too much to sort and photograph and catalog and some of it requires research. It&#039;s a lot of work but in the end it pays off. I like variety. I would hate calling bids on the same thing over and over. I get bored too easy to do that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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