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Big auction gone bad

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:04 am
by jhnmdahl
If you're the world's premiere auction house holding a live auction for a one-of-a-kind collector car in English, probably best to speak English properly while auctioning off the car (notice the big jump down in price right around 2:50). Too bad YT wasn't there to help them:


Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:21 am
by AsLan7
Wow, :shock:
Would love to hear YT’s take on this.

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:24 pm
by Norris_Boating
Haha! Oops! Owner must have been so bummed!

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:45 pm
by Big Block Power
That's horrible. And it didn't meet the reserve even. That's bad. So then who was bidding 60 million dollars.

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:57 pm
by cmattj
I hear the teen in his marvy euro accent. Plus he keeps throwing the 500 k . Jury’s ( Ytmsn) out?!

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:24 pm
by Ytmsn
Sooo many things have gone wrong here. Only thing worse than losing your bidder is losing your money, and then not having the grace or experience to get back or start over. He did both. Wow. Not what you would expect at Sotheby's.

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:42 am
by MnLakeBum
Wow! Can’t believe they would botch it so badly.

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:46 am
by Ytmsn
I suspect the guy selling was there as a favor to someone, it's hard to say. I never was a fan of Sotheby's or Christy's style of English Auctioneers chant. We always say what we have and what we want., and it keeps you on track. A chant is like a statement and a question. "I have 60, now 70." That is the basic of basic. But the English style is they chant what they have bid over and over. BORing....

And it doesn't even sound like a real highbrow English accent to me. If he was faking it and trying to sound real, and then loses his place and then loses his bidder, he panicked. It's easy to see he had no clue who was in or where he was, and he was holding out hoping someone else would come in. If I was the buyer in that situation, I would have hit it when hes at 17 million and saved myself some coin!

To go from 70 to 17 is a Colossal mistake, and then once he got there he just hung out on 17 and never moved. Its likely he saw the expression of the guy that was at 70 million, realizing something was wrong, and lost his money and his bidder. The instant that happened he should have stopped and let the announcer make another speech while he regrouped, but instead he hammered and hammered and got deeper and deeper.

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:33 pm
by Big Block Power
Yt
That auctioneer is the same one of seen on the a ton of times. Never was a fan of him. I guess BJ spoils us.
And of course you 😁

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:56 pm
by Ytmsn
Really? I didn't know. He flubbed up for sure

Re: Big auction gone bad

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:10 pm
by Big Block Power
Ytmsn wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:56 pm Really? I didn't know. He flubbed up for sure
Yea I knew the voice as soon as I heard it. They are always on The Chasing Cars show on velocity.