auction 'buy backs'

**Charley Lillard** · #1 01-23-2007, 12:57 AM

I was told John Ohler did try to buy his car back and was told he could not. If you want to buy your car back you need to have someone you trust and someone that trusts you to bid on the car and buy it. Then he just sells it back to you. There is now way the auction house or anyone else can control that. That is where Barrett-Jackson is at now. All your nudge nudge wink wink comments are the BS.

**427king** · #2 01-23-2007, 01:38 AM

"you need to have someone you trust and someone that trusts you to bid on the car and buy it"

The above actions at BJ do more to tarnish this hobby or business than any fake build sheet,rebody, or trim tag sale on ebay could ever do.

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It works very simply: At Russo, the seller's contract states he may bid on his own car. And he will pay both commissions

[/ QUOTE ] How can this possibly be Legal, when 3 people went to jail a few months ago for bidding up a friends 75K painting on ebay ?????

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #3 01-23-2007, 01:40 AM

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.... If you want to buy your car back you need to have someone you trust and someone that trusts you to bid on the car and buy it. Then he just sells it back to you. There is now way the auction house or anyone else can control that...

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Isn't this sort of 'shill-bidding with a reserve'?

I guess it could also be called an 'auction hedge'?

**427king** · #4 01-23-2007, 01:52 AM

The only way around this problem is to put a buy it now on all the "auction" cars and if it doesnt sell right away take SEALED offers all at once . Ebay should follow suit. Everyone makes a bid and then at the end the bids are revealed, not during the auction. No jacking prices up artificially all along the way. If the seller had his friend throw the high bid in, fine he can pay 20% and get his car back.At least no one will suffer because of a false bid except the seller.

sYc · #5 01-23-2007, 01:58 AM

Man, i would want to watch 40 hours of that.

**427king** · #6 01-23-2007, 02:02 AM

If you simply want entertainment watch "the girls next door" on split screen while BJ is on

Then again there are 20 year old girls sitting on old guys laps on both shows

sYc · #7 01-23-2007, 02:07 AM

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If you simply want entertainment watch "the girls next door" on split screen while BJ is on

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Wife will not let me. Actually I did the spilt screen yesterday, NFL&B/J.

sYc · #8 01-23-2007, 02:09 AM

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........ Then again there are 20 year old girls sitting on old guys laps on both shows

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At least one. Was that the man's wife and kids, or daughter and grandkids or ?

**427king** · #9 01-23-2007, 02:13 AM

When you ask an old man who the 20 year is on his lap, they always say its a relative . It certain parts of the country, its actually true

P.J. · #10 01-24-2007, 10:18 PM

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If you simply want entertainment watch "the girls next door" on split screen while BJ is on

Then again there are 20 year old girls sitting on old guys laps on both shows

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YA

PJ

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