BJ: Beyond the valley of the lunatics

[njsteve]

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<font color="blue">That would suk, if the auction house would actually 'let' you bid against yourself,
especially with all the 'helpers' B-J has around.
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I just replayed the video on the 68 Hemi Dart sale. The high bidder is at $192,500. You hear him being told by one "helper" that he is top bidder, when another "helper" walks right in front of the camera and says: "Will you go to 200?" There were no other bidders at that point as the bidding had stalled at $192,500 and he was waiting for the third and final call before the hammer fell. Now that was the most blatant episode of "BJ-ing" of a bidder I have ever seen.

(New technical term: "BJ-ing" = the unethical scamming of a high bidder into raising his own top bid)