Quote: Chappers @ 2nd May 2023, 4:24 PMI've never been to a real auction but I am tempted.
Neither have I unless a livestock auction counts.
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Quote: Chappers @ 2nd May 2023, 4:24 PMI've never been to a real auction but I am tempted.
I love them, and seriously, I think I'm a frustrated auctioneer at heart. Love the theatre and drama of it all.
Great fun, and you CAN pick up some cracking bargains, especially if no one else is interested.
BUT it can go the other way, as happened with me many years ago before they had internet bidding in auction houses, BUT they had phone bidders or bids left on the book, or with the one of the porters.
There was a large collection of 1950's Eagle comics all bound in volumes, and I went all the way up to Norfolk to bid on them. It faltered at my bid of £150 and I thought "YES!" these are mine! But then, out of the blue came a phone bidder, and I chickened out at £600, which was far more than I wanted to pay for them anyway - As I say BEWARE OF AUCTION FEVER!
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 2nd May 2023, 4:02 PMYou don't need that - much more fun to do it yourself
It works well if you're the only one using BidNap.
And on things with not too many bidders - once there's a bit of a crowd after something it doesn't really work.
We've nabbed some really nice paintings in the past, just because unwary punters think they've secured the bid.
When I was a lad and just passed my driving test, I bought all my cars from auctions.
I had rules. No more than £200 and a year's MOT. (make and model didn't matter)
When the hammer came down on your bid - you went to the counter and paid and they gave you the keys.
The first one I bagged was a Simca Special in grasshopper green.
It's changed now as I know to my cost.
In about 1996, I took my daughter to the auctions to buy her first car. (The BCA auctions)
They are a right rip off. They don't want Johnny from the streets grabbing a bargain - they want official sellers only.
I got a lovely Peugeot 205 for £1000 for her (book price about £1800) and she was thrilled.
But at the counter to pay there were extras - of course VAT, Then auctioneers fee? Then insurance to drive it away. Then more insurance if it turns out the car was stolen. It cost me as much as the book price with no guarantees.
These fees are waived to the official garages as they are registered with them.
Beware of BCA auctions.
Those bloody Cadbury(s) adverts.
"There's a glass and a half in everyone!"
"What is that? I'll Google it..."
*gets momentarily distracted *
".... what was I going to Google?? Ummmmm... Oh balls, I've forgot 😖)
Hurry up with that new Alzheimer drug people
People who identify as the opposite sex because they think it's clever or funny. I know people who genuinely do so grow up.
It used to be a 'well I never..' moment if you heard someone had changed sex now it's just a bombardment.
And come on - who doesn't laugh when an ugly geezer with stubble puts on lipstick, blue eye shadow and a cheap wig and says call me Mavis.
Good luck to you mate but I ain't calling you anything.
It's a generational thing.
All my kids have tons of mates who are gender-fluid.
Doesn't worry them one jot.
Quote: Lazzard @ 13th May 2023, 3:58 PMIt's a generational thing.
I remember the Generation Game. Larry Grayson was as camp as you like and so polite to the female co-presenter and contestants my parents couldn't understand why he wasn't married. They thought he was much better marriage material than his replacement Jim Davidson. They were right in a way. It's no wonder there was a mad rush for gender fluidity once it became acceptable.
People at work who write foreign number 7s with a line through it and 1s that look like upside down Vs. They're not like that on a keyboard are they!
Quote: Chappers @ 25th May 2023, 8:45 PMPeople at work who write foreign number 7s with a line through it...........
A key turning point in one of my favourite films "Went the Day Well?"
In the days when invoices were handwritten before being typed up on a real typewriter my 1's could look like 7's and visa versa.
My wife did my books and sent the bills out. There was a lot of mistakes until I started putting a line through my 7's.
It just comes natural now.
Quote: Lazzard @ 13th May 2023, 3:58 PMIt's a generational thing.
All my kids have tons of mates who are gender-fluid.
Doesn't worry them one jot.
Bores the shit out of me. Your sexuality is the most basic, obvious, tedious part of your personality.
One of the kids I 'teach' told me he was worried he might be gay. I said, Don't worry cos it's not a problem these days and you're such an ugly c**t no guy's gonna shag you either. I hardly think Cameron Diaz is gonna be weeping into her pillow over this. 'There was hope before...'
Quote: Chappers @ 25th May 2023, 8:45 PMPeople at work who write foreign number 7s with a line through it and 1s that look like upside down Vs.
Things that piss me off? Never mind people at work who write foreign number 7s with a line through them and 1s that look like upside down Vs. Just people at work full stop. Actually, come to think of it, just people.